I didn’t want to change our main news article, so I figured I’d just announce this on the Blog… We just uploaded a special 15 minute interview feature about the creation of “Free & Easy,” including audio clips from every song on the album. It’s available on our Podcast page, in case you haven’t already subscribed to the Chillin’ with Lovespirals podcast feed. We originally recorded it for use by media types but figured that our fans would probably enjoy it as well, if not more than, them, so here it is!

Lovespirals’ brand new album, Free & Easy, has an official
release date of November 1st, but you can buy it online right now. The band will personally autograph all copies sold through their own webstore, and are offering a free promo copy of previous album, Windblown Kiss, with the purchase of 2 or more copies of Free & Easy. The CD is also on sale at Projekt’s Darkwave distribution, CD Baby, and will soon be available through Amazon.
Other online sources will offer it in the near future. Metropolis will be distributing the album in the US, so be sure to ask for the album in your local record stores!

Got an email from DJ Rafe Gomez today saying he’s diggin’ the album and will be adding “Free & Easy” and “Hand in Hand” into the mix on his show soon. Cool! Actually, his words were “Thx for hipping me to your ultra kewl sounds.” Positive feedback rocks. Makes all the sweat and tears worth it.

It’s been a busy week, and we’ve got a lot of cool stuff in the works. Next week we’ll be launching more site updates. We’re going to start doing the podcast weekly, too, unless things get too crazy. But right now there’s plenty to talk about, so why wait 2 weeks? We’ll be sending out the first email newsletter since our random Santa Monica show. I just don’t think about sending out emails what with the blog, news feed, and podcast, but I guess folks are expecting to get emails when the sign the list, and they do sign the list often…

Hmm… Just noticed that our latest podcast (episode 6) hasn’t shown up on iTunes yet. That is really weird. We’ll have to figure out what went wrong with that. Meanwhile, though, you can hear it directly from our site, or on MySpace or Garageband. I wonder if Odeo got it yet? Man, too much stuff to keep track of. Where’s that gnome of ours at?

We started changing the site around a bit to reflect the imminent release of “Free & Easy,” starting with a new home page image, featuring a brand new band photo. We also added some splashes of color here and there, which really perks things up, it seems to me. Orange is so full of life. Kinda matches the whole Indian Summer thing going on out here in So Cal. Boy has it been hot! Oh yeah, we’ve also had some new band photos sprinkled throughout the pages. We’ll update the photo album eventually, as well. What else is new? Oh, new lyrics, of course. Got the rest of the album lyrics up this weekend. I think we’ll get some banner ads together soon so folks can link to the site off theirs, if they like. New audio will go up soon. Who knows what else? Keep checking back…

Man, I was pretty exhausted when we recorded the podcast yesterday. After starting over from the top a few times, we got kinda cranky and almost didn’t do one, then we suddenly got really silly, instead. We were like, “How are we going to make a 10 minute show about how we’re about to announce news, but aren’t quite there yet?” Then I forgot to mention that we had just done a new photo shoot yesterday. We’ve had bad luck arranging a shoot for the past year, with different photographers. Like 4 different people… Isn’t that kind of weird? But we finally did a quickie yesterday so hopefully something good will come of it. If so, you’ll be seeing it soon, I expect.

Now that the end is in sight for our CD release, we are just running around like chickens with our heads cut off! Last night we took some time to actually play music, which was a refreshing change of pace. We played through our set using just electric guitar and a mic through amps, which was a first. The rawness sounded kind of interesting, actually. I could see us maybe doing a quick ‘n dirty show like that sometime. I’ve been talking with a cool LA space about hosting a launch party show, so hopefully we can set up a good time for that. Doing it around the holidays might be a little stressful, but hopefully not overly so. I will be pretty surprised if we’re able to set up some Mexico shows this winter, as we hoped, but you never know. Things can fall together beautifully at the last minute sometimes.

I mentioned in a podcast last month that we had a collaboration in the works with Philly band, Beauty’s Confusion. They are a great up and coming band so I’m excited to be doing something with them. They just sent us a copy of their recent album, which is really enjoyable. I knew quite a few songs already because they are pretty generous about sharing their music online, but there were a couple sweet tracks I hadn’t heard before, like “City.” Actually, if you haven’t heard BC yet, you should go check out their download page at beautysconfusion.net or visit their myspace page. Anyway, Skip is working on a final mix now, which I’m looking forward to hearing and to sharing with everyone on a future podcast. Oh, I should mention that this is the first time Ryan’s gotten involved in an internet collaboration. I’m really stoked he liked the song enough to take some time out and go into the studio with me to work on it. Depending on how busy we are promoting the new album, I might get him to do an official Lovespirals mix of it, too. Time shall tell…