Webspace:
www.loveofeverything.com
www.myspace.com/loveofeverything

Contact/Booking:
bobby@recordlabelrecordlabel.com

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Redder Catalog
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Love of Everything is essentially the solo project of Chicago’s Bobby Burg, but not in the sense one would typically expect. While Burg is a current member of bands JOAN OF ARC and MAKE BELIEVE, Love of Everything is an altogether different animal. The songs flow from him, and he physically creates much of the music, but nearly every song boasts able contributions from Burg’s coterie of superlatively talented friends working in a dizzying number of combinations. With this eclectic approach to pop, Love of Everything really is a “one-man band with an emotional life of ten people” (All Music Guide). Following less-than-perfect experiences with band membership, Burg decided to take on recording and creating full-band music on his own in 2000. When his first songs as Love of Everything were recorded to video-tape and released as The Green CDR, he began performing locally around Chicago with Matt Clark (JOAN OF ARC, PINEBENDER, RABBIT RABBIT) on guitar. At first the two were assisted by a drummer, then with live drum loops and homemade instruments. After four years, a 16-country tour, and three self-released recordings, Love of Everything has evolved to include an incredible amalgamation of the Chicago avant-garde. 2003 brought Burg’s independent label debut, Total Eclipse of the Heart, on Brilliante Records. Recorded by Bob Weston (SEBADOH, ARCHERS OF LOAF), this lavish first record brought out in full those elements that Burg’s self-released pieces had only touched upon.

The follow-up, Handjob Community, brings in Burg’s friends from STORM & STRESS, RAINER MARIA, THE RACE, MAKE BELIEVE, EUPHONE, JOAN OF ARC, OWLS, and PINEBENDER to extend his experimental but heart-warming pop rock to the next level. To call it “cute”—as it has been at times—is an understatement of its touching and sometimes jarring sentiment. All sixteen songs stick in your head, as the record moves in a decidedly singular and progressive direction in perfect continuity, pulling the listener gradually uphill toward its energetic conclusion.

Love of Everything tours endlessly, and will tour through much of 2005 in support of the record. Two seven inch recordings follow, one as a double record on Polyvinyl Records split with JOAN OF ARC, OWEN, and MAKE BELIEVE, and one on Record Label, split with Phil Elvrum’s MOUNT EERIE.

Discography & Links:
Handjob Community (Redder Records)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Brilliante)
friENDS (record label)
piano. bedroom. florida (record label)
drinking. feeling. (record label)
Green CD (record label)