2008 Woodie Awards
All you need is Love - in October
by Leah Christensen
Issue date: 8/28/08
Section: Music
The band Love in October brings Swedish-flavored music to Minnesota State at 9 p.m. Friday in the Centennial Student Union.
This is the Minneapolis-based band's second time playing in Mankato within the past year. It played another show at MSU last March.
Love in October is an indie pop/rock band with four members. Two of the group's members are native Swedish brothers Eric and Kent Widman, who moved to Minneapolis a couple years ago looking to form a band.
The Widman brothers had just graduated from the University of Notre Dame. Eric explained they were looking at different parts of the country to move to for a great music scene. They found Los Angeles to be too chaotic and New York too crowded. Minneapolis, however, was just what the brothers were looking for.
After making the move to the Twin Cities, the brothers formed the band Love in October in summer 2006. There have been several line-up changes with the group since then, Eric said, but current members Ryan Morgan and Troy Groenke round out the quartet.
The indie band is currently hitting its stride. They've been featured in Spin, Alternative Press, Karrang! and USA Today and have also received national airplay. The band's first full-length featured album, "Pontus, The Devil, and Me," charted #45 on the CMJ Radio 200.
"On the surface we're this clear cut, nicely put together indie rock band," Eric said.
But that's only on the surface.
Eric said he and his brother complement each other well. Where Eric is more the optimistic, his brother is ever the pessimist. The blend of their two outlooks creates a kind of pessimistic/optimisic fusion.
"Sometimes good things come out and sometimes bad things come out," Eric explained.
The band uses its Swedish background for inspiration. Eric said some of his greatest influences are the Swedish bands Cardigans and The Hives. The group even went as far as to record a song entirely in Swedish.
Right now the group is currently touring the Midwest as well as putting together songs for an EP which comes out this fall.
Eric said the band works hard to keep its music fresh and original. He said they're not the kind of band that gets together, jams and hopes a gem pops out.
"We are what we are, like it or hate it," Eric said. "You get what you get with us."
Love in October will be featured in this MavTunes.
Leah Christensen is a Reporter staff writer
This is the Minneapolis-based band's second time playing in Mankato within the past year. It played another show at MSU last March.
Love in October is an indie pop/rock band with four members. Two of the group's members are native Swedish brothers Eric and Kent Widman, who moved to Minneapolis a couple years ago looking to form a band.
The Widman brothers had just graduated from the University of Notre Dame. Eric explained they were looking at different parts of the country to move to for a great music scene. They found Los Angeles to be too chaotic and New York too crowded. Minneapolis, however, was just what the brothers were looking for.
After making the move to the Twin Cities, the brothers formed the band Love in October in summer 2006. There have been several line-up changes with the group since then, Eric said, but current members Ryan Morgan and Troy Groenke round out the quartet.
The indie band is currently hitting its stride. They've been featured in Spin, Alternative Press, Karrang! and USA Today and have also received national airplay. The band's first full-length featured album, "Pontus, The Devil, and Me," charted #45 on the CMJ Radio 200.
"On the surface we're this clear cut, nicely put together indie rock band," Eric said.
But that's only on the surface.
Eric said he and his brother complement each other well. Where Eric is more the optimistic, his brother is ever the pessimist. The blend of their two outlooks creates a kind of pessimistic/optimisic fusion.
"Sometimes good things come out and sometimes bad things come out," Eric explained.
The band uses its Swedish background for inspiration. Eric said some of his greatest influences are the Swedish bands Cardigans and The Hives. The group even went as far as to record a song entirely in Swedish.
Right now the group is currently touring the Midwest as well as putting together songs for an EP which comes out this fall.
Eric said the band works hard to keep its music fresh and original. He said they're not the kind of band that gets together, jams and hopes a gem pops out.
"We are what we are, like it or hate it," Eric said. "You get what you get with us."
Love in October will be featured in this MavTunes.
Leah Christensen is a Reporter staff writer
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