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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 43: Back from Humboldt

Ryan & Anji are back in town and preparing for the official release of Long Way From Home TOMORROW! The band reflect on their travels through Humboldt County, updates on the new CD on Amazon MP3 , Amazon Advantage, Last FM, iLike, and Garageband. Plus they announce the two big Second Life events going on THIS WEEK on PodShow Island in SecondLife including a CD listening party and a live performance. They also read listener email and close out the show with the Fave Nitemare remix of “This Truth.”

Links:

Buy Long Way From Home on CD & Digital and get an immediate digital download as well from Bandcamp

Get the Motherless Child EP in your choice of digital download from Bandcamp

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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 42: Podcast Expo Wrap Up

Lovespirals back from the 3 day podcast expo with plenty of tales to share about fellow podcasters such as Dawn and Drew, the Extreme Pods crew, Adam Curry, CC Chapman, Julien Smith, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, the RumorGirls, Britney Mason, and Geoff Smith. Also, Lovespirals news including our site relaunch, the first batch of Long Way From Home CDs going out, and a sweet fan email from Julie. Plus personal stories including Lovespirals’ environmental tips, listening to Tea with Hungry Lucy, attending an Air concert, and seeing Jimmy Bratcher live. We close out the show with a clip of The Black Channel Citizen remix of “Motherless Child” from the Motherless Child EP.

Links:

Buy Long Way From Home on CD & Digital and get an immediate digital download as well from Bandcamp

Get the Motherless Child EP in your choice of digital download from Bandcamp

A few photos from Lovespirals trip to PME 2007:

Chillin’ with Lovespirals 41: Satanic Kernel Panic

After a trip ton eventful trip Starbucks where Anji was recognized, the band are super amped to share the latest news and stories including Anji’s iMac pooping out amidst the flurry of promotion for Long Way From Home, the necomancer who made the first order of our CD, updating our various websites, getting our first CD review from CC Chapman, Anji being the 6th most recognizable voice in podcasting, plus the entire Lovespirals remix of “Motherless Child” from the brand new Motherless Child EP

Links:

Buy Long Way From Home on CD & Digital and get an immediate digital download as well from Bandcamp

Get the Motherless Child EP in your choice of digital download from Bandcamp

Chillin’ with Lovespirals 40: The Big Four Oh

Our podcast has hit the big 4-0! Update on the new Lovespirals album progress, our New Media Expo 2007 plans – including a ShowGirls meet ‘n’ greet and Lovespirals unplugged performance, review of the B.B. King show at Hollywood Bowl, John Mayer boosted our stats, Chillcast #80 RSS problem and stat anomaly, band email, Love Spirals Downwards reissue update, “Motherless Child” Remix EP news — including a clip from the brand new Chris Caulder (of Beauty’s Confusion) remix! 

Chillin’ with Lovespirals 39: Hate Wave

More Lovespirals news than you can shake a stick at including our new mobile recording setup including a MacBook Pro, M-Audio Fast Track Pro, MCA SP1 mic and Sennheiser HD 280 Headphones, Ryan loving Facebook but hating MySpace, designing the Long Way From Home digipac artwork, ShowGirls wins PodcastAwards, Lovespirals’ New Media Expo 2007 plans, our inclusion on the Asian Variations and Projekt 200 compilation CDs, forming a street team, Pat Ogle email, a live song clip AND an extra special contest for your chance to win a copy of the Projekt 200 limited edition 3 CD boxed set with an brand new Lovespirals track! The show closes with a clip of us playing an unreleased song live.

Chillin’ with Lovespirals 38: Pump It Up

Lots of Lovespirals news including mastering Long Way From Home with Robert Rich, photo sessions results, voting for The Chillcast with Anji Bee on PodcastAwards July 28th – Aug 11th, launch of the Anji Bee Music Store, New Media Expo 2007, Ryan’s birthday on July 31st, an LA Times story about the SoundExchange controversy, fan emails, social media sites Pownce, Ziki, Ning, Facebook, MySpace, and more – plus we share the a clip of the Karmacoda Mix of “Motherless Child”. Happy Birthday to Sean Bowley!

Chillin’ with Lovespirals 37: Gloss & Polish

Sorry for the month long lapse, but Lovespirals have been crazy busy preparing to release the new album! Ryan and Anji talk about that album progress, as well as our upcoming mastering session with Robert Rich, photo sessions, and cover art design, plus the Lovespirals CoverCast on Student Loan Radio, Anji’s recent work with Moosefrog, Pownce VS Twitter, the SoundExchange controversy, Creative Commons, The Chillcast with Anji Bee on PodcastAwards, starting up a band email list, and more — plus we share the Hungry Lucy Mix of “Motherless Child” in it’s entirety!

Lovespirals Guest Host Student Loan Radio

Ryan and I guest hosted Christopher Penn’s Student Loan Radio CoverCast #2 this weekend, and no — we didn’t talk about financial aid! The band were given the opportunity to share recordings of songs written by John Denver, America, and Pink Floyd, due to Financial Aid Podcast‘s recent acquisition of an ASCAP/BMI podcasting license. Woo hoo! Check it out, and if you enjoy it, please go comment on Chris’s blog to let him know![audio:http://cache.libsyn.com/financialaidpodcast/20070708.mp3]

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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 36: John Mayer Review

Big update on the upcoming 3rd Lovespirals CD, Long Way From Home, including a clip of the completed 10th track, “Motherless Child” on Podsafe Music Network, Daily Source Code, and Accident Hash, lots about the John Mayer concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Lovespirals on Facebook and other web 2.0 sites, Anji’s upcoming Levinhurst feature and more!

Chillin’ with Lovespirals #35: Mr Stoked

Ryan and Anji return with plenty of band news including a plug for the Unwind Lovespirals/Love Spirals Downwards Spotlight, remixes of “Motherless Child” from our upcoming new album, a newly podsafe remix of “Walk Away”, and potential live shows, plus an explanation of our studio band VS performing band predicament, and news of our future recording studio. PLUS we share a clip from the brand new MoShang “No Place Like Home” Mix of “Motherless Child.” Don’t miss it!

Unwind Lovespirals/Love Spirals Downwards Spotlight

This week’s episode of Unwind with Anji Bee is a half-hour feature on Lovespirals, and its earlier incarnation, Love Spirals Downwards. Band founder, Ryan Lum, joins show hostess and Lovespirals vocalist, Anji Bee, in-studio to discuss the band’s 16 year history during one of the most revolutionary periods in music. From 8 track cassette to digital recording, indie record label success to totally indie self-release, fanzine and college radio to website and podcasts – we talk a bit about all the changes the band has experienced. We also premier a brand new track from our upcoming album!

Tracklisting:

  1. “Amarillo” Love Spirals Downwards Ever (1996)
  2. “Love’s Labours Lost” Love Spirals Downwards Idylls (1992)
  3. “Subsequently” Love Spirals Downwards Ardor (1994)
  4. “Windblown Kiss” Lovespirals Windblown Kiss (2002)
  5. “Our Nights” Lovespirals Windblown Kiss (2002)
  6. “Sandcastles (Podsafe Edit)” Lovespirals Free & Easy (2005)
  7. “Abide” Lovespirals Free & Easy (2005)
  8. “Motherless Child” Lovespirals Long Way From Home (Oct. 2007)
  9. “Unwind Theme Song” Lovespirals Unwind Podcast (2007) Free Mp3
Be sure to check out the band podcast, Chillin’ with Lovespirals!