Christmas came early! Free mp3 "Istället för Musik: Förvirring" (bob hund cover) from Love in October Claus. Right click on link to download!

And accompanying music video
Love in October - Istället för Musik: Förvirring - Bob Hund Cover from Erik Widman on Vimeo.

Kent and I moved to Minneapolis on a whim and started this project two and a half years ago. Ever since we've been traveling the country playing shows, making music, and living our dream. At the end of the month we'll be moving to Chicago to continue our musical endeavors from there. We are making this move for practical and personal reasons. We will miss the city of Minneapolis and all the good people we've met here, but we also look towards the future with great optimism. This is not the end of the band by any means as we have plenty of music left inside of us. We'd like to thank Troy and Ryan for playing with us and being great guys. We'll miss them. We'd also like to thank all the fans who have come out to see us here in MPLS. It's been so much fun playing for you. This isn't the end of LiO in Minneapolis; we'll be back on tour. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We have one final “hometown” show planned for you. Come bid us farewell on Friday, December 19th at the Uptown Bar. For everyone else, we’ll see you on tour.

Erik & Kent

Our kick-ass live music video from the UM show with Hot Hot Heat is up. Check it out!
Love in October "Dance Johannes Kepler" Live from Erik Widman on Vimeo.

Our music video for "An Average Idea" kicks off Museek Music Video Festival in St. Petersburg, Russa today!

This is an easy contest for you! We are giving away tickets to our show with Hot Hot Heat on Friday, November 14th at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Just send an email with your full name to management@loveinoctober.com and subject "Tickets" by Wednesday, November 12th.

We finally finished recording three of our new songs with Jon Drew (Tokyo Police Club). We're really proud and stoked about the new songs:

Dance Johannes Kepler (indie rock)
Like Nothing Ever Happened (indie pop jamboree)
Soft Errors (Swedish indie dance rock)

You can listen to them on our Music Player on the website or the various other music players like MySpace, iLike, Last.fm, etc.

Love in October on music and arts education on Culture Bully

We are playing a surprise! show at the 7th Street Entry this Wednesday, October 22nd with The Little Ones. The first five people to respond to management@loveinoctober.com will receive a FREE ticket.

We did an impromptu acoustic performance of “Like Nothing Ever Happened” at Dunn Brothers last week for the blog Culture Bully.
Love in October "Like Nothing Ever Happened" (Live @ Dunn Bros) from Culture Bully on Vimeo.

For the month of October, we are giving away a free B-side mp3, “Someone Somewhere.”

"Petrula the Destroyer" was featured on NPR's Second Stage.

If you missed last Monday’s performance on KVSC, you can see a recap of “Dance Johannes Kepler” and our interview.

Here's all the viral action we created this past weekend:

Fearless Radio interview

Live video from MPMF

More MPMF photos

City Beat Critics Pick
10:30 p.m. Critic's Pick: Love In October (Minneapolis)
Indie/Pop
Imagine if Hellacopters had arrived 10 years later and started worshipping Superchunk instead of Grand Funk. Swedish immigrants Erik and Kent Widman formed Love in October in mid 2006 and immediately started attracting attention. CMJ, Spin and Paste were tripping over themselves to praise the band's ability to craft instantly memorable tracks while not sounding like a copycat of anyone. Their expansive Power Pop goes further into Emo Punk and Post Rock territory than most dare and the three-minute, Moog-drenched treasures they come back with all sparkle like diamonds. The Widmans are also amateur filmmakers, and they've made three music videos full of cut-out animations, period costumes and circular plots so fun you'll swear they've kidnapped Terry Gilliam. Dig It: Motion City Soundtrack, Hot Water Music, Alkaline Trio. (EW)