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)

Hello Hello World,

It is I, I I am, Am I I...that I am. What does a rock star do on a Friday night? Watch 90 minutes of debate followed by 90 minutes of post-debate analysis. I'm addicted to CNN. I watch it at least 3 times a day (when I'm not listening to NPR). I am probably the most politically well informed musician in the world. That I am. Last night's show with The Winter Sounds was really fun. We played with them about 2 years ago as LiO was just being born, and it's great to see that both our bands have grown into what we are today. The venue was great, and I was happy with our performance. Ryan was sick, and he had puked about 7 times on the Megabus while traveling to Chicago. We were in Kansas on Wednesday to track 8 songs on drums, and we met up with him in Chicago yesterday. We did a radio interview with Fearless Radio which you can check out here:
http://www.podcastfearless.com/nmb/index.php?id=655

I've been trying some chair acrobatics at our shows lately (see photo) and have been really close to biting it a few times. I laugh in the face of danger....ha ha ha ha ha....I am the lion king! Maybe I can top my chair antics by juggling burning bowling pins while playing moog with my toes.

Tomorrow we travel to Cinci to eat some chilli spaghetti at Skyway. I'm not a fan of it...but I've had a weird craving for it today. It must be my primal urges kicking in. Mmmmm.... chilli.

Well, I hope all of you watched the debate tonight, and if you didn't, catch the VP debate next week. It's going to be a good one! Feel free to email me a political rant and I shall respond. Best wishes.

Erik

We're hitting the road again this week. Tomorrow we take off for our favorite little town in Kansas - Eudora - where we will spend a couple of days at Black Lodge Recording Studio tracking drums for new songs.

Then we'll head up to Chicago on Thursday for a live interview on Fearless Radio. Listen live at www.fearlessradio.com or call us in the studio at 312-224-8273. We'll be capping off Thursday night with a performance at Bottom Lounge in Chicago before trucking to Cincinnati where we will play a return engagement at MidPoint Music Festival (Below Zero Lounge) on Saturday night. All details on the website.

Until next time, we'll leave you with a video blog from Erik attempting to keep it all straight for you (and him)!


But Erik gets the Fearless details a little confused. We are on from 4:00 to 5:00 PM central time.