Love is Chemicals

Love is Chemicals was formed (in spirit, if not quite yet in name) in 2000 when singer/guitarist Nate Grover, tired of being in bands that kept breaking up all the time, convinced his wife Courtney to pick up a bass and formed a band with her called The Chemistry Set. After a few months of practicing and playing out, Nate and Courtney joined forces with a couple of friends guitarist Greg Neil, who had just moved to San Francisco from Utah, and drummer Steve Galbraith, whose previous band Nate had helped record and rechristened themselves Love is Chemicals. The new band got to work right away, writing and recording tracks for what would become the band's first album: the self-produced and self-released Lucky Me, Lucky Mud, completed in the fall of 2001.<BR>
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Unfortunately, personal reasons caused both Greg and Steve to depart the band in May of 2002. Casting about for new bandmates, Nate and Courtney quickly recruited guitarist Nick Mirov and drummer Rajeev Dhar through a Craigslist ad. This second lineup debuted in the winter of 2002 and played several shows at the Stork Club, the Starry Plough, and the Edinburgh Castle before buckling down to the task of recording another album. The band went into Tiny Telephone in October 2004 to lay down tracks with producer Christian Hanlon and audio engineer Aaron Prellwitz. Mixing and additional recording continued for the next several months, during which time Steve returned to the band. Finally, in September of 2005, the self-titled album was released on the band's own label Near Earth Objects.<BR>
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Love is Chemicals has received airplay from college radio stations across the country, and appeared on NPR's Open Mic showcase, WOXY.com's Unsigned program, and XM Radio's Radar Report. In 2006, the band played BAGeL Radio's California Homegrown Music Series and headlined at the Mission Creek Music Festival. They are currently working on a new album to be released mid-2007.