2016 Valentine's comp preview

To bring a little Christmas excitement and bolster support for our Crowd Funding Campaign, we are previewing "Sea of Love" by Remote Observer from the feb. 2016 Valentine's Comp! Pre-orders available until Dec.20th here! Over 30 Louisville bands with all exclusive tracks! Donate now to ensure this comp sees the light of day; Any amount is better than no amount, and donations of $5 or more will come with an exclusive LIVE album download featuring Bonnie 'prince' Billy, Jim James, and more! donations of $15 and more will get both the Live album and new 2016 comp downloads. You can pre-order the 2016 comp on vinyl as well!

LIVE album download

As part of our 15 Year anniversary we are putting together a LIVE album of Louisville Is For Lovers bands playing songs from our releases including 2 from Jim James, Bonnie 'prince' Billy and many more! Get your download of the LIVE album by donating $5 or more at our crowdsourcing campaign here! The proceeds go to our new 2016 LP release, as well as reissuing past releases!

Help fund an entire year of Music!

We are extremely excited about the return of The Louisville Is For Lovers Valentine's comp (which we ran annually from 2001-2010)! The date of the new Vinyl/digital album is set to be released on Feb.5th (with showcase at Zanzabar Louisville on Feb.12th)!

But we are not stopping our 15th Anniversary there! We have also announced plans to digitize and remaster all 10 previous editions of the Valentine's series and release one a month during 2016. But all of this doesn't come cheap so we are asking for donations to help with the project via a crowdfunding campaign. But it isn't so much donations as getting some really great music in return! Included in the campaign are options to pre-order the 2016 comp (digital and vinyl), as well as getting a download of never before released live recordings of Louisville Is For Lovers songs by artists such as Bonnie 'prince' Billy and Jim James of My Morning Jacket for a donation of just $5. 

 We feel like it is very important to keep archiving the great music of our city, and equally important to make sure previous recordings are available to those who want it, but the cost isn't cheap. If you have ever picked up one of our releases, been to one of our events, or tuned into WFPK to hear one of our live broadcasts, you already know your donation is going to a worthy cause. Any amount is very much appreciated, and for such a good cause as well as getting great albums in return this feels more like getting great music for a great price than mere charity!

Preorder The 15th anniversary edition of this series and recieve unreleased exclusive songs by:

Adventure,  Brother Wolves, Cereal Gylphs, Crush (with Tory Fisher & Cheyenne Mize), The Cut Family Foundation,  CZAR, The Deloreans, Eyeball (former The Mack frontman Jeff Shelton),  The Fervor, The Gallery Singers, Gritty Pearl, The Hot Wires, Houses In Motion, J. Brent Stewart,  Jaye Jayle,  Regan Layman (of Black Birds of Paradise),  Daphne Luster, Lydia Burrell, Maximón,  Pleasure Boys,  Plastic Bubble,   Quiet Hollers,  Remote Observer, Sandpaper Dolls, Second Story Man, Super Rowboat (Carrie Neumeyer of Julie of the Wolves), Tender Mercy,  Twin Limb, Twin Pigeon,  White Reaper, & The Winger Brothers.

2016 Comp Line-Up Announced

We are very excited to announce the Line-Up for LOUISVILLE IS FOR LOVERS 2016 compilation "LIFE"!
The new comp will feature over 30 exclusive songs by Louisville Artists and will be available on this site and at louisvilleisforlovers.bandcamp.com  on 2/5/16! We will also be releasing a limited edition Vinyl version of just 300 copies! Please help us fund this project by visiting our Crowd Funding Campaign here (and also secure your pre-order copy of the album)!

Here are our 2016 artists:

Bands: Adventure*  Brother Wolves Cereal Gylphs* Crush The Cut Family Foundation  CZAR The Deloreans* Eyeball  The Fervor* The Gallery Singers* Gritty Pearl The Hot Wires Houses In Motion J. Brent Stewart  Jaye Jayle  Regan Layman  Daphne Luster Lydia Burrell* Maximón  Pleasure Boys  Plastic Bubble   Quiet Hollers*  Remote Observer* Sandpaper Dolls Second Story Man Super Rowboat   Tender Mercy  Twin Limb* Twin Pigeon  White Reaper* The Winger Brothers 

*vinyl

40 Bands Submitted to 2016 Comp

The deadline for the 2016 Valentine's Comp is now closed. Thank you so much to the 40 bands who submitted a track for consideration!

Last Day to Submit a song!

Last Day for Submissions! The window closes Sunday Oct.25th at 5pm! This is your 24 hour notice!

5 Days Left!

For anyone wanting to submit a song for the new Louisville is for lovers 2016 Valentine's comp, the deadline is in 5 short days, October 25th. For more details click here. 

2016 song submission deadline: 20 days!

For anyone wanting to submit a song for the new Louisville is for lovers 2016 Valentine's comp, the deadline is right around the corner, October 25th. For more details click here. 

Open Call: Valentine's 2016

We are very excited to announce an upcoming project, for Valentine's 2016, marking our 15th Anniversary! We will be resurrecting our original valentine's day compilation series of love songs for our anniversary.  We will be accepting unreleased love songs by Louisville area bands for consideration until October 25th 2015. Please send submissions to louisvilleisforlovers@gmail.com in the form of MP3 or WAV with band/artist information.