It's Valentine's week, and we're going to celebrate it in a big way! We're posting live acoustic versions of our songs in the BLOG section all week long. One song per day, no more, no less...so check back every day. 

Don't forget our show this Wednesday at the Elbow Room! See you there...

We have joined forces with Paste to raise money and keep awareness high by offering free mp3s to everyone who donates to help Haiti.  You can download 250+ songs, including a Love in October track, through Songs for Haiti.  100% of the proceeds will go to relief work via Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, and Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund.  Happy downloading!

Join us this Thursday, December 3rd at the Elbo Room in Chicago, IL, USA at 11:00 p.m. CT.  We will be broadcasting worldwide on SyncLive at http://app.synclive.com?show/33724.

It's been a long time coming for all you online Love in October fans. Now you can finally by the Love in October EP on CD (for all of you who don't have a vinyl record player) and we're selling it to you dirt cheap....$5 which includes shipping!!! We're selling them at cost, so pick on up for grandma this Christmas season. Head over to the online store and pick one up.

So we've been here in NYC all week at CMJ and I'm getting to that point where my brains are fried from all the new music I've been experiencing. I've seen some great bands...and I've seen some not so great bands. But I've learned some stuff along the way that I'm going to share.

1) Labels are dead and we don't need them. We've been independent from the start and that's how we're going to remain for the foreseeable future. Our music will never be played on commercial radio and if it ever is I think it's time we throw in the towel because we're doing something wrong artistically at that point.

2) NYC & LA has no idea what's going on musically in the rest of the country. They're very savvy to what's going to in the big city...but that's about it.

3) It is possible to live on $5 a day in NYC...you just have to have low standard and seek out free meals at special events.

4) Donald Trump is a dusch.

5) Kent is a dog whisperer and specializes in French Bulldogs.

We have a radio interview on Monday on UIC radio from 2-2:30pm with a live acoustic performance! Listen online http://uicradio.pages.uic.edu/listen.php

Erik is going to also be doing a TV interview on TUesday with Echo TV for a later airdate.

Love in October is delivering an interesting indie folk cover of Tokyo Police Club's "Nature of the Experiment." You can download the track for FREE at BANDCAMP

MPMF: The Heavens Roared, the Ground Roared Back
City Beat
Brian Baker

Other than an intermittent and often heavy rainfall and a cancelled show or five, Thursday was a very good opening night. The lessening rain upon arrival in downtown Friday night boded well for a drier and less drippy MidPoint experience, and so it was. For the most part.

For me, the evening began at the Know Theatre for Love in October, a truly multi-cultural band. It sounds like the high concept pitch for an MTV reality series: What if two Swedish brothers formed an arty New Wave band in the Minneapolis cradle of the Replacements civilization and then moved the whole thing to Chicago where the Blues and post modern Rock harmonize around a burning barrel at the intersection of Rock and Don't Stop. Frontman Erik Widman was spendiferous in his wide white belt and white loafers and was the jittery focus whether he was banging out rhythm on guitar or fueling the atmosphere with a wall of synth textures. At one point, Widman pointed out that, between the economy and various other social, cultural and political ills, something had to be done, and Love in October's contribution was a song called "Something's Got to Be Done" Sung in Swedish.

This one act alone eclipses any advances made in the eight years of the Bush administration, if there were indeed any. Widman and his bassist brother Kent donned masks early in the set; Erik wore a masterpiece that would have been a suitable disguise for the Pink Lantern and Kent's was a magnificent art deco rising sun half mask affair. This is what happens when you take whistling out of the musical equation. At any rate, Love in October drew a great crowd and they delivered a terrific set that combined the synth swoop of Kraftwerk and the Blues knife fight of the White Stripes. Well done.

You can read the full article on CityBeat's blog

Kara Gud, ge mig en sjal, Like Nothing Ever Happened, and 27-08-08