Love and Logic

"it's a special thing when great talent meets inspirational song
writing and genuinely wonderful people. That is Love and Logic.

They will make you dance, and sing. And move you to tears. But that's
what real music should do!"

Chris Perino
Drive by - Chris Perino

"Their sound is fresh and
they have great energy! I look forward to hearing more from this
exciting new group!"

Cindy Blackman - Cindy Blackman

"The music touches the soul of people and connects with the heart of every listener."

"So much better than the pop stuff coming out. Intelligent, deep and relevant."

"Literally the best new music I've heard in 2009. It's fresh, energetic and inspiring... Seriously the type of music you want to tell everyone you know about. If it let me give 6 stars I would." - Fans

Love and Logic Rock The Nines

–November 2009

Fans and friends of band Love and Logic rushed to occupy the last remaining seats at The Nines restaurant and bar in Ithaca, New York last Saturday. The New York City group retains close ties to the Finger Lakes region as lead singer and guitarist Paul Canetti is an Ithaca College alum.

The pop-rockers warmed up the crowd with a little Black Eyed Peas tribute as they performed an accurately portrayed rendition of the summer anthem “I Gotta Feeling.” Most of those gathered shimmied in their seats while singing along and tapping to the addictive bass line.

This was just one adaptation taken from a cover-happy set. Others included: Miley Cyrus’ radio jam “Party in the U.S.A.”, Paramore’s Twilight-single “Decode” and the late King of Pop’s “Billie Jean.”

Contrary to what may have been inferred, Love and Logic is not a cover band, they did play some of their original tracks off their self-titled EP. One such cut

was “Breathe,” a cello driven confession of need. Canetti and bassist Dan Haller shred while Annie Kim cuts furiously at her cello with the bow. Drummer Derron Walker pounds away on the heads threatening to break them with every strike.

Another ear-catching single, “Always Been You,’” begins with speckled guitar pickings that eventually crescendos into a full band orchestration with crashing cymbals and sweeping cello harmonies. Canetti exhibits a desire to connect with his audience on an unconditional level as he pleads, “I came here for you tonight.”

Canetti kept the mood light with humorous sidebars in between songs, along with added plugs for the band’s $1 EP that was on sale at the door.

Love and Logic brings a chemistry and love for music to the stage that people want out of a local band. Their style is better suited for clubs rather than small bars, but their charm and appeal will capture all that have the opportunity to see them live. - http://alternativeannex.wordpress.com

You may remember up-and-comers Love and Logic who made headlines covering Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me”a few months ago. Well, now they’re back with an inspiring musical experience.

Like many of us, the socially aware trio, fronted by indie video director Paul Canetti, were sickened by news of BP’s oil spill in the Gulf. Rather than sit idly by, Love and Logic, decided to use their musical talents to help those affected.

The end result was recording two new singles entitled “Hit Hard” and “Wait For It.” The songs are available for purchase via iTunes individually ($.99 each) or as a two-track EP ($1.98). The band will donate 50% of all proceeds to help with oil spill relief. You can listen to the songs in full at Love and Logic’s official website. - TheRoundTableOnline.com

freddie beat speaks to three-fourths of Love & Logic. They talk about their YouTube phenom video for Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want For Me” [see it here], Adam Lambert’s L&L tweet about it, MTV’s forthcoming premiere of said video, their next YouTube cover video, the diversity in all things L&L, experiencing a “Facebook Awakening,” Avatar, catching a movie in New York, their musical future, and more!

Song snippets included in the show are “Stay Awake” and ”Breathe” from the Love & Logic EP. Go to Love & Logic’s MySpace Page for more. - Popoliol.com

Love and Logic just released their first ever music video--done in a stellar black and white to underscore the power of the performance.


Their cover of Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want From Me?". Share it with someone you know: friends, lovers, enemies. It's about many things that we all need today, tomorrow and forever.



This powerful song has a beautiful presentation courtesy of the various instruments involved-- one of which is a cello. The video is incredibly powerful particularly in black and white.

This is our version of Adam Lambert's whataya want from me, and our first official music video. we made it ourselves at home in freezing NYC with the help of a lot of random strangers and a cardboard sign
Love and Logic combines indie rock, pop, and classical music to create a unique, versatile sound. With equal doses of heart and brain (hence the name), their songs are incredibly accessible, emotionallly powerful, intricate, challenging and distinctly intoxicating and addictive. - La-Story.com

Paul Canetti, lead singer of Love and Logic, said he picked his band members off the Internet. And now, a year later, the group returns to cyberspace to sell its music.
By surfing through Facebook, Canetti found bassist Dan Haller, cellist Annie Kim and drummer Derron Walker. He said the easiest way for him to gather his band was to ask around via his Facebook status.
“Whether it be putting in a status or even just seeing in my news feed that Annie played cello, we all got together on the Internet,” Canetti said.
For independent bands like Love and Logic, going viral not only makes finding musicians easier, but it also gets the band’s music to listeners — something that is more profitable than selling physical CDs.
A research and strategic analysis published in 2008 by the Recording Industry Association of America said the sales of digital music now constitute 32 percent of the total market value. It found that digital downloads grew 30 percent and album sales dropped 14 percent in 2008.
Haller said the band copied an idea from the band Radiohead, in which listeners choose how much they want to pay for the album.
“We released our EP and then another single after that on this Web site called Bandcamp,” he said. “[It] basically lets you charge whatever you want, or people can name their price.”
Steven Pond, professor of musicology at Cornell University, said consumer attitudes and music purchasing methods have shifted over time.
“Peoples’ consumption patterns have continued a trend that began in the ’90s, which is to go less and less to the regular box store and more towards files that are either downloaded legally or shared illegally,” Pond said.
Years ago, using the Internet to distribute music would have been seen as unconventional, though Pond said he is not surprised to see how well bands have adapted to the now-common practice of Internet distribution.
Senior Jon Kagan is using the Internet to record and release his rap music. Kagan has been writing his own raps since he was 11. Now, in his final year of college, Kagan said he plans to finish recording his first EP.
“I promised myself as a testament to show that school didn’t get in the way of music that I would finish and distribute an EP before I graduated,” he said. “Last year, during winter break, I completed it. Now it’s being mixed and will be distributed at the end of November, as a free download and as a hard copy in December.”
Kagan said, with the help of his recording engineer, he promotes his music on his own Web site, which Kagan hopes will soon have a free link to download his EP, “Pieces.”
“We also [want to distribute] on Imeem and different sites [like] iTunes and Pandora,” he said. “We want it to be more accessible in many locations. That’s the goal. At the end of the day, I just want someone to get it.”
Local musicians New Neighbors also discovered the convenience of digital distribution companies and the benefits of using them as opposed to the outdated method of physically handing out hard discs. Lead singer Nathan Terepka said using a distribution company was relatively simple.
“There’s a lot of different services that can connect you with online distribution companies, such as iTunes and Napster,” Terepka said. “We did it through a company called CD Baby. It’s really not a mysterious networking thing.”
As long as independent bands and artists maintain ownership rights over their music, digital distributors can bring in a significant amount of money for the bands.
Terepka said that independent bands can expect a healthy return on their investment by using iTunes.
“If you’re selling your CDs independently, outside of a label, you take the whole thing,” he said. “ITunes does not take a very large percent.”
Though Love and Logic still brings about 30 hard copies of its album to sell at live shows, the band makes most of its profits off of the Internet, Canetti said. The band makes 80 percent of its sales from digital sales and 20 percent off of CD sales.
“Our Internet presence has brought in a lot of people to our Web site and to our download site,” he said.
When Apple’s iTunes sells a song for 99 cents, recording labels make about 70 cents per download, according to RedOrbit.com, a technology-based online news feed.
Love and Logic uses the online digital distributor Tune Corp. Canetti said after working as a creative manager at an Apple store in New York City, he realized going straight to iTunes would be too difficult to do without another company’s help.
“When you sign a nonexclusive agreement with [a digital distributor], they put your music on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Napster,” he said. “Basically, iTunes is too big of a company to deal with small bands, so we had to go through some sort of distributor.”
Emusic.com distributes independent bands’ music on its site. Sean Fennessey ’03, former music editor of Vibe magazine and now a member of the editorial board for Emusic.com, said CD distribution companies have become an integral component of spreading an artist’s music.
“The philosophy hasn’t changed,” Fennessey said. “It’s the amount of avenues that you have to promote yourself.”
Haller said using the Internet to distribute Love and Logic’s music has made them enough money to continue touring, but the goal of the band is to make music people can relate to — not just to make money.
“The Internet’s the perfect medium for that because obviously you don’t have to be in any specific place, or you can listen to things on your own time,” he said. “The goal is to get the music into as many people’s hands as possible — not to make as much money as possible.” - Ithacanonline.org

A commenter last week sent me a link to a video of a band called Love and Logic covering Adam Lambert’s current hit “Whataya Want From Me”. Love and Logic’s version strips out the bombast and bravado that permeates nearly everything Lambert does, but in its place the track becomes a vulnerable plea from one lover to another. The video is below and there it is, your moment of Zen: - VivalaMainStream

Little Monsters I think you'll Love this! youtube.com/watch?v=U7Dr2526nAs - PerezHilton.com

It’s a simple effect, but a reminder that extending onto multiple screens — any multiple screens, really — can be a good time. Jeff Soto/iamnotrobot sends along his friends Love and Logic and Chris Perino (Drive By) covering Lady Gaga. Each of the four iPhones is one take, no cuts, and the four are synced together on playback. The only catch is, audio isn’t synced — that’s what I’d love to see next, audio coming out of four devices in a cappella fashion. Love and Logic’s Paul Canetti explains the technique:

The audio is overdubbed. It’s a studio recording (done in our home studio) using Logic Pro. And the auto-tune you hear is the built-in pitch correction plug-in in Logic Pro 9. Just like a traditional music video, the audio was pre-recorded. (however the phones vibrating at the end– that’s live audio!)

The four iPhones were in sync the old-fashioned way, pressing play on the count of 4!!! We did a lot a lot a lot of takes/false-starts until it worked perfectly, and then we let it run. We shot the four phones on a lightbox (like for looking at photo negatives).

Each of the four screens was shot individually as a long one-shot continuous video set to the music. When the screen goes dark, we are just literally switching off the power-strip with the lights in it. No cuts in any of the videos.

As I assemble a collection of various screens from various generations of hardware, I may have to put them all together into a little screen chorus — across many, many platforms, of course. (DS? PSP? Ancient Windows Mobile?)

I’m sure some readers have done similar things, so feel free to pipe up.

Side note: look, it’s a Lady Gaga video without horrific product placement / “brand integration.” (I will say, though, it’s effective: now the next time I’m going to poison someone, I’m totally adding Miracle Whip to their sandwich, and I hear Virgin Mobile is the carrier you want if you’re in an all-women’s prison.) Sorry, couldn’t resist – and I love the Gaga. - http://createdigitalmotion.com

Video of the Day: Love and Logic “Whataya Want From Me”
New York City pop-rockers Love and Logic kicked off 2010 right by going viral. The group, comprised of several Ithaca College alums, recorded a cover of American Idol champion Adam Lambert’s song “Whataya Want From Me.” Love and Logic took to the streets of New York City to recruit actors for their music video that features one prop: a cardboard sign. The simplicity and homegrown feel of the video translates well to the YouTube audience as the video reached a staggering 105,238 views in just two and a half weeks. The recent popularity spike of Love and Logic’s video has even garnered the attention of MTVU who will now be running the video on their network because it exceeded 100,000 YouTube views. - http://alternativeannex.wordpress.com

Podcast interview with Dr. Blogstien - BlogTalkRadio

I first heard of Love and Logic when they passed us an acoustic cover of Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me.” The track was so good that MTV and VH1.com picked up the video that accompanied the cover and to date has passed 1 million views, all this from an unsigned bad. Anywho, fast forward to now and the the group has a new single coming out tomorrow called “Hit Hard.” It was inspired by the Gulf Oil Spill and 50% of all the profits from the sale of the single will go towards oil spill relief.

You can check out the single here and buy it when it is released tomorrow from digital retailers. Also, Love and Logic are playing a show at Mercury Lounge on June 26th with Blip Blip Bleep.

enjoY! - boomBoomchik.com

Love and Logic Use Twitter on Streets
Posted: June 23, 2010 at 6:24 am

An example of when street statements start taking cues from Twitter. Numerous printouts across Greenwich Village and eastward implore pedestrians to re-tweet the message, “RT #HITHARD #OILSPILL.”

On the face, it seems like support for those affected by the BP oil spill disaster. Not quite. It’s actually a clever promotional tactic by the New York City band Love and Logic to plug its show at Mercury Lounge this Saturday. Apparently it’s their MTV/VH1 “coming out party.” And 50% of proceeds from their current single “Hit Hard” will benefit oil spill relief.
This wouldn’t be the first time Twitter made a real-life cameo. NYC the Blog recently spotted a Tweeter on Mott Street. - boweryboogie.com

Love and Logic, a trio from New York City, found each other on Facebook, they are incredibly active on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Their video for a cover of Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me” has over 180,000 views, and caught the attention of MTV as well as Adam Lambert himself. Their newest original release “Breathe”, a hard-hitting rock song, is accompanied by a YouTube video a well as a B-side of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” with its own YouTube video. Both are driving much traffic.

Their high-energy live performance has sold out popular NYC rock venue Arlene's Grocery, and brought large crowds to Mercury Lounge, Webster Hall, and Highline Ballroom. The band also took home first place in Supernova's Bandwars NYC 2009 as well as being placed on the short list of "Best bands at Arlene's 2009". From their hearts to your ears...

Love and Logic has a new single out today called "Hit Hard". It was inspired by the tragic Oil Spill and 50% of all the profits from the sale of the single will go towards oil spill relief.

The band will play MTV/VH1 Coming Out Party with Blip Blip Bleep this Saturday, June 26th, at Mercury Lounge in NYC.

Download after the jump. - AmoreMagazine.com