Loveless Music Group Feature - by Ben Malkin

Loveless Music Group brought all these people together. That can’t be overstated or underestimated: how important that was to so many peoples lives. Courtney, Andy, & Mike (Mike with a Myspace page, it all started with a Myspace page) began putting on nights at Scenic (on Ave. B) called ‘To Here Knows When’. Anyone who knew, who saw a night called ‘To Here Knows When’, knew someone else knew. Finally(!), someone had brought together all the children of My Bloody Valentine, like discovering a family you didn’t know you had, finally the children had come home.

Children as diverse as Apollo Heights, Ifwhen, Autumn Thieves, Aydin, So L’il, Soundpool, Her Vanished Grace, Dedelectric, Elika, Zelda Pinwheel, Panda Riot, The Offering, Bleep, Sleeping Kings of Iona, Diagram, Besnyo, and on, and on, and on…

Strangers became friends through the connection of Loveless.

Children of Loveless played in the playground of Loveless Music Group nights, creating Loveless universes where you couldn’t believe what you were seeing: such unbelievable music, prism blissed mystic kissed bands playing such small clubs, ~how could other people not know about this? And yet it was our little secret. Like you’re there at the beginning, like you can’t believe I’m living through this. Andy, Mike, & Courtney were the catalysts who threw gasoline on a small fire, and that small fire burst into a Phoenix .

It all goes back to that first ‘To Here Knows When’ night at Scenic, July 6th, 2005. (Dedelectric, Ifwhen, Autumn Thieves, & So L’il). Members of all the bands spoke to each other. It was weird. It shouldn’t have been, but it was cause, everyone had played so many shows before where bands didn’t really talk to each other. They were put together on bills at clubs on the same night solely for the purpose of get ‘em in / get ‘em out so we can get more people drunk at the bar (i.e. money, not music). The meat factory. But July 6th wasn’t the meat factory. This was community. People who felt alike, who came from the same family tree, the same sounds, & understood what each other were doing. I don’t think you realize how refreshing this was (for this sound). Simply by putting bands together who were on the same wave length, our wave length, Mike, Courtney, & Andy performed a small miracle, and for that we are eternally grateful.

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