Anji is the special guest on today’s Shameless Plugcast, being interviewed by show host, Zack Daggy, about Lovespirals, vocal influences, podcasting, vidcasting, radio DJing, The Chillcast, Unwind, Lovely Ladies et al, plus a listener question from Ed Ovett, of Ed’s Mixed Bag Podcast.
Anji and Ryan are currently recording music for their upcoming 3rd album to be released later this year. Tentatively titled, Long Way From Home, the album futher explores Lovespirals’ unique brand of blues, folk, and jazz influenced dream pop — more akin to the band’s debut 2002 release, Windblown Kiss, than their electronica focused 2005 CD, Free & Easy. Discussions are underway as to whether the band will self-release on their own Chillcuts label or partner up with an indie label for a co-release. Either way, Lovespirals intend to make music available for podcasters, music bloggers, and internet radio as they have done with all previous releases.
Stay tuned to lovespirals.com – particularly to the band podcast, Chillin’ with Lovespirals – for developing details!
Andreas interviewed Anji for a special feature on his new XtraChill Intensiv podcast. The feature includes several tracks each from Lovespirals, Bitstream Dream, and Plastic Chair, giving an overview of Anji’s work from the past 5 years or so. This is a bilingual interview, with in German and English — but music is the universal language, right?
Two Love Spirals Downwards CDs have been added to the Lovespirals webstore this week. The first is 1998’s Flux, which includes the Kristen Perry co-written song, “Psyche,” that aired on Dawson’s Creek and “Sunset Bell” – featuring Jennifer Ryan-Fuller – which appeared on La Femme Nikita. The second is 1996’s Ever, whose ambient electronica track “Madras” – featuring hypnotic vocals by Suzanne Perry – was selected last year for the iTunes Essentials Shoegaze & Beyond playlist alongside legendary bands Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, and more. Band founder, Ryan Lum, will personally autograph any LSD album sold through the webstore.
Ryan and Anji return with tales of woe and delight including fire alarms and idiot neighbors, Kevin Rose‘s GoDaddy Superbowl commerical, Anji’s birthday celebration, Ryan getting hit on in SecondLife, listener comments from episode 30 — including a response from War-N of Hungry Lucy — plus a Lovespirals contest announcement, and another new song from their upcoming album. You might find this review of Blisscent 1 handy after listening to the show…
Lots of updates are being made to the band site this month, the biggest of which is integrating WordPress into it so we can connect with the blogosphere at large. Now the front page of the site has a continuous feed of our news, podcast, and blog entries — all mixed up together, but tagged with categories. You can still view just news or blog entries on separate pages if you like, as well. We’re still ironing out all the kinks and figuring out what works best, but it looks pretty good and it’s functioning, so feel free to poke around and make some comments!
Anji’s podsafe music show, The Chillcast with Anji Bee is now part of Adam Curry’s Podshow lineup on Sirius Stars 102 every Tuesday night at 7 pm EST/10 pm PST. If you don’t have Sirius satellite radio, you can still subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or your favorite RSS reader!
I thought I’d put together a Top 20 list of my favorite podsafe songs of 2006, then I realized I should present it as a podcast. Duh! It was fun to put together, but boy were the shownotes a pain in the ass… Anyway, I did all the hard work so you can just enjoy the tunes and direct links to the band’s mp3s and websites. Lucky you! Check it out.
Matt Rowe tapped me for a list of my Top 10 holiday tracks for musictap.net this week! You might be surprised by a few of my choices… I actually looked at my hit count in iTunes to verify what seems to be my biggest holiday themed songs. I decided not to include any Lovespirals or Love Spirals Downwards related tracks, even though I do enjoy listening to them… Anyway, here’s my list:
Lovespirals tracks listed on the Podsafe Music Network are now available for purchase, including several tracks unavailable on iTunes or other digital retailers. Now fans can buy the band’s 1998 collaboration with Monkey Bars, “Beatitude,” a radio edit of the first track Anji ever sang on, “Ecstatic,” the Bitstream Dream remix of “Walk Away,” and the Podsafe edit of “Free and Easy.” Downloads are 99 cents each, processed through ClickandBuy. Visit Lovespirals Podsafe Music Network page to preview every song in it’s entirety before buying them.
Anji and Ryan are back with the latest band news — including a big, big podcast announcement and a big, big CD sale, plus more music geekery, and listener feedback, including an audio feedback from CC Chapman of the award winning Accident Hash podcast!
LINKS:
I finally got around to updating our mp3 page, adding in an audio player chock full of tracks, as well as links to all of the most popular music sites we’re on. I think I’ve hit all the places folks normally check out music at. If I’ve skipped anything important, hopefully fans will let me know… Will ya?
