There’s a reason why I never got into Live Journal and the like since I’d rather write in my website than in someone else’s. So here’s my first entry into our new blog here. For historical and curiousity’s sake, for now I’ve decided to leave up the older band journal posts, which you see here in the blog as old posts from many many months ago. Since I don’t keep a diary or anything like that, is it kind of interesting see what you were going through at times in the past.

Anji contributed lyrics and vocals to 2 tracks (“Love Me Leave Me” and “Smoke”) on the brand new Bitstream Dream album, Integrated. You can stream or download “Love Me Leave Me” via BeSonic.com.

Lovespirals’ out of print 1999
Ecstatic EP is now available digitally, in 192kbps mp3 format. It is 40 mintues long:

You can also check out every release by Lovespirals and Love Spirals Downwards, including audio clips of every track. Plus, you can take a peek at some of Anji and Ryan’s favorite music at Lovespirals’ user page.

Apple is now selling Lovespirals’ 2002 album, Windblown Kiss,
and Love Spirals Downwards’ 2000 retrospective compilation,
Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present, in their iTunes
music store. You can purchase either individual songs or the entire
album. Click the button below to launch Windblown Kiss in your iTunes store:

Ryan & Anji have joined the new music area of the trendy
community site, MySpace, because… you know, everyone who’s cool is
doing it!

Lovespirals have a new page on garageband.com that includes several free downloads plus online sales of their album, “Windblown Kiss” for just $8.99. Garageband is known for its ongoing “contests,” held by a review process which is actually quite fun to get involved with. Be sure to check out the reviews of Lovespirals’ tracks when you head over.

Lovespirals have just added Windblown Kiss to the popular online music store, CD Baby, for the low, low price of just $8.99.
CD Baby is also carrying the 8-year career retrospective colection, Temporal, by the band’s former incarnation, Love Spirals Downwards. Help support the band by buying directly from them, via CD Baby!

Man oh man there were a lot of remixes to listen to this weekend! First we whittled the 4 pages worth of entries to just 32 tracks, then down to 22 tracks, and finally to 8 tracks. Now we need to hone in on just one Grand Prize Winner and 2 Runner-Ups. We feel like American Idol judges! Ryan says he’s Simon and I’m Paula, but I think I’m a bit more like Randy… 🙂

Anyway, I’m planning to unveil the final announcement by Friday, which will hopefully include our having all pertinent mixes uploaded to our SoundClick page for everyone to check out!

Italian indie music magazine, Losing Today, is currently hosting a downloadable mp3 of “Hand in Hand” on the Mp3 Today
section of their website.

I’m starting to miss playing live again, it’s been so long. I can’t help thinking about how much more fun it would be, though, if we had more musicians to fill out the sound. A bassist would be a huge improvement, at least. It could be cool to have a keyboardist, too. Or maybe somebody who could play both, depending on the song. Like John Paul Jones, that would be nice.

In a time when albums seems to be a dying art form, and music appears to have been overtaken by inexperienced youth, this album truly stands out. It is so refreshing to hear a mature perspective on life! I loved this album when it came out 3 years ago, and it has really stood the test of time. It is unassuming, quiet, but so elegant and satisfying… just hip enough, without being cliche — and therefore open to premature aging. There are so many good tracks, and not really any bad tracks; a rarity, it seems. I would have been damned proud to have created this album, that’s for sure.