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Chillin' with Lovespirals #47

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Ryan and Anji are back with lots of personal and band news including the extended celebration of Anji’s birthday, the band’s harrowing winter storm incident, new recording gear, broken mixer update, a Lovespirals feature on Solipsistic Nation podcast, Long Way From Home on Pandora, Lovespirals guest DJing Yourgasms radio show, audio feedback from War-n of Hungry Lucy, and a clip of the new Chandeen song, “Tomorrow” featuring Anji’s vocals and lyrics.


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Anji enjoying the sunset on her birthday

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Anji Bee featured on Behind the Monitor

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Woman Behind the Monitor (and the Mic): Anji Bee

“The Sexiest Voice in Podcasting” Anji Bee of the Chillcast talks about the show and her double life as both podcaster and musician.

TREVOR: How did the Chillcast get its start?

ANJI: I guess you could say The Chillcast got its start with college radio DJ’ing. After 3 years of doing various shows and working in management at a college radio station, I was pretty well hooked. Then I discovered Internet radio, and started creating both live and prerecorded Internet radio content – including interviews with indie bands like Hungry Lucy and Sunburn in Cyprus. Eventually podcasts were invented, and I put 2 and 2 together. Podcasting was better than radio because listeners could tune in whenever was most convenient for them – which seemed really revolutionary! My first podcast was actually Chillin’ with Lovespirals, which Ryan and I launched to help promote our 2nd album, Free & Easy. Shortly after, I started getting permissions from indie band friends to create a weekly music show podcast – because you have to understand that at this time the podsafe music movement was barely getting started! Adam Curry had just begun his Podsafe Music Network — which is actually how he and I met and became friends, when Lovespirals joined the site. Adam played us on the Daily Source Code, and then we started talking back and forth on his podcast about Creative Commons vs BMI and all those kinds of things. To make a long story a bit shorter, I put together a few fledgling episodes of The Chillcast, hosting them on the Internet Archive site and C.C. Chapman, who was really active with PodShow at the time, pitched the show to Adam and PodShow management, and I was signed as one of the first group of podcasters to the new PodShow Podcast Network.

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Lovespirals on Accident Hash Episode #255

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Download Accident Hash #255 For The Troops MP3

Talk about seminal music podcasts… The award winning Accident Hash turned 3 today and the show’s amazingly talented and sweet producer, C.C. Chapman, dedicated it the Troops. What a guy! Podcasters including Christopher Penn, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Mike Yusi, and Lovespirals’ own, Anji Bee, sent in audio messages to the troops for the holidays, which are sprinkled throughout the show, which features tracks by Matthew Ebel, RaykoKRB, Black Lab, Chance and many others – including, of course, Lovespirals! C.C. was the very first podcaster to hear Long Way From Home and we’ve got a mutual love thing going on with that man. Congrats on 3 years, CC!

And while we’re on the topic of supporting the Troops, Lovespirals and Projekt records donated several hundred CDs via Ryko Distribution to Boatsie’s Boxes, who sent out 16,178 Christmas stockings to men and women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait over the holidays.

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Lovespirals on Coverville #409

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The latest “indie edition” of the legendary Coverville podcast includes Lovespirals’ rendition of the classic American Spiritual, “Motherless Child.” We met Brian Ibbott at the Podcast and New Media Expo last year, where Anji was accepting an award for her work with the ShowGirls podcast. We slipped him a pre-release copy of our Long Way From Home CD, which he was very enthusiastic about, but what with one holiday after the other these past few months… well you know how these things go. We’re just stoked to make our 2nd appearance on this seminal music podcast!

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Download Coverville: Indie Boys, Girls, and Motherless Children (MP3)

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Chillin' with Lovespirals #46

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The band usher in the new year with news of their expanded studio, Lovespirals’ most popular episode, the official release of the Motherless Child EP, recent webtool and shareware discoveries, online and terrestrial radio airplay of the new album, Anji’s Chillcast announcement, and more – including a recent collaboration with Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff! By the way, you can purchase this collboration on eMusic.

Please write a review of Long Way From Home on Amazon, iTunes, or CDBaby.

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Lovespirals' Motherless Child EP Out

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Lovespirals’ Motherless Child EP has just been released on iTunes+, eMusic, and Amazon Mp3. This digital only release features 6 remixes of the first single from the duo’s most recent album, Long Way From Home. Artists included are Karmacoda, Hungry Lucy, MoShang, Chris Caulder of Beauty’s Confusion, and The Black Channel Citizen — plus one by Lovespirals’ own Ryan Lum.

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Lovespirals are special guests on The Pod 5 podcast

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This week’s The Pod 5 show includes Ryan and Anji of Lovespirals as special guests, along with Matthew Ebel and Anji’s fellow ShowGirl, Share Ross, for a discussion of the future of the recording industry. Topics include CDs vs Mp3s, major vs indie labels vs self-released, Radiohead scaring the music industry, and much more fun and madness!

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Music Critics Weigh in on Lovespirals' Long Way From Home

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Reviews are starting to come in for Lovespirals new album, Long Way From Home, and the critics have been kind.

All Music Guide‘s Ned Raggett writes,

For their third album as Lovespirals, Anji Bee and Ryan Lum again create a lush series of songs that synthesizes disparate influences into a warm, enveloping listen.

Matthew Johnson of Re:Gen Magazine writes,

It’s not an understatement to call Long Way from Home the duo’s most accomplished work up to date; as enjoyable as their previous explorations of laidback electronica and jazz fusion have been, this album captures Lum and Bee’s warm musical chemistry in a way that previous releases only hinted at.

Matt Rowe of MusicTap.net writes,

From the band’s early years as Love Spirals Downwards — with a vocalist all but forgotten for Anji Bee’s lovely, dreamy, and expansive vocal pleasantries — to their current album, Lovespirals have always been a band of change. Their latest, the wonderfully titled Long Way From Home, is one of superior work and can easily rank as the band’s best work in either incarnation.

cadencerevolution.com podcast blogs:

It’s very rare these days to come across an entire CD which you will listen to over and over from beginning to end non-stop, and even rarer to find one which makes you want to grab everyone you know and tell them “you must listen to this.” However such is the case with the third release, Long Way Home, from the California based duo Lovespirals.

Come hear what all the fuss is about at lovespirals.com/longway!