Calvin Love

This is Calvin Love: He started a punk band in the northern Canadian city of Edmonton at the age of thirteen. The oppressively long, dark, and cold winters kept him indoors making madcap music while summer nights found him tearing up the sleepy streets with rock ‘n’ roll fueled adrenaline. Friends would say he was born with a rebel heart. read more…

This is Calvin Love: He started a punk band in the northern Canadian city of Edmonton at the age of thirteen. The oppressively long, dark, and cold winters kept him indoors making madcap music while summer nights found him tearing up the sleepy streets with rock ‘n’ roll fueled adrenaline. Friends would say he was born with a rebel heart.
After the early years, he left town and has been on the road for the last five years touring dive bars and clubs throughout the US, playing in various bands in and out of Los Angeles. During this time, he managed to create a collage of visions, sounds, and scattered tracks while writing and recording in his bedroom studio, motels, bus stations, or wherever the road happened to lead.

This is Calvin’s first foray into a solo career. Armed with a 4-track, mics, computer machine, keyboards and guitar, Calvin has laid down his debut record New Radar, due to be released this fall on Autumn Tone Records. With backing influences of pop and dance music of the 50’s and 60’s, as well as the punk/electronic/new wave of the late 70’s and 80’s, Calvin Love’s music is a sonic escape into psychological mysteries and enlightened tales of love and death.

For what it’s worth, Calvin’s interests lie in photography, aesthetics, the paranormal, technological adaptations, pirates, The Goonies, zombie apocalypse, Jarmusch, strange states, dancing girls, sleepless nights, D.I.Y., Iggy, Bowie, tombs, hitchhiking, black & white, and the space-time continuum…

News

• CMJ features Calvin Love's performance at Jubilee Fest Jun 12, 2013
• Los Angeles Magazine features Calvin Love's performance at Jubilee Fest Jun 10, 2013
• Jonk Music features Calvin Love track, "Missions" Apr 30, 2013
• Zumic features Calvin Love's "Missions" Mar 27, 2013
• Baeble Music features Calvin Love performing at Hype Hotel for SXSW Mar 17, 2013
• Calvin Love on Rollo & Grady's Top 85 Artists to Watch list Mar 11, 2013
• Pictures of Calvin Love from show at Music Hall of Willamsburg Mar 4, 2013
• Calvin Love talks with My Social List Feb 22, 2013
• Calvin Love's Video For "Missions" Featured On Brooklyn Vegan Feb 6, 2013
• Calvin Love track "Missions" premieres plus tour dates Jan 16, 2013
• American Songwriter features Calvin Love's "Magic Hearts" Jan 3, 2013
• Calvin Love makes Aquarium Drunkard's Year in Review Dec 18, 2012
• Calvin Love's Debut Single remixed by Cooper Saver Dec 4, 2012
• Calvin Love featured in Prefix Magazine's Artist To Watch Nov 26, 2012
• Calvin Love featured in the newest Aquarium Drunkard Session Nov 13, 2012
• Calvin Love's New Radar Reviewed on Consequence of Sound Nov 8, 2012
• Calvin Love featured in Impose Magazine's The Chain Letter Interviews Pt. III Nov 7, 2012
• Calvin Love's New Radar reviewed on Aquarium Drunkard Nov 6, 2012
• Calvin Love's debut album New Radar streaming on Spinner Nov 5, 2012
• Calvin Love featured in Spin's 10 Albums You Can Hear Now Oct 30, 2012
• Vice Reviews Aquarium Drunkard's CMJ Showcase Oct 21, 2012
• Calvin Love named in Rollo & Grady's Top 30 New Artists of 2012 Oct 15, 2012
• Ears Wide Open: Calvin Love Sep 26, 2012
• Calvin Love Announces Debut LP, New Radar on Autumn Tone Records Sep 25, 2012
• MOKB Premiere : Calvin Love : “Gut Feeling” (Devo Cover) Sep 25, 2012

Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With	Tickets
Wed 6/19/2013	SLED ISLAND FESTIVAL -Commonwealth Lounge	Calgary, Alberta,
Thu 6/20/2013	SLED ISLAND FESTIVAL - GOLDEN AGE CLUB	Calgary, Alberta,	Mac Demarco, Dent May, Lab Coast
Fri 6/21/2013	SLED ISLAND FESTIVAL - Alexandra Center	Calgary, Alberta,	Mount Eerie, Nicholas Krovich, Chairs