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Lovespirals on Coverville #474

This week’s “indie edition” of the award-winning Coverville podcast includes Lovespirals’ rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Welcome to the Machine.” This track was recorded in 2006 for a fan-created tribute compilation called NPF Tribute Vol. 2: The Return of the Sons of Neptune available as a free download from the Neptune Pink Floyd site. While you’re there, you can also grab our cover of “Cymbaline” from the NPF Tribute Vol. 1: None of Us is Pink. Thanks to Brian for featuring Lovespirals for the 3rd time on his great show! We really enjoyed the selections this episode, so be sure to check out Coverville #474 for a good time.

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Lovespirals Guest DJ on Auralgasms Radio

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Ryan and Anji of Lovespirals will guest DJ the “Yourgasms” show for Auralgasms Radio on Monday, June 30th, 2008. The band will present an hour long set of song by Lovespirals, Love Spirals Downwards, and recent projects by past and present band vocalists Suzanne Perry (Melodyguild), Jennifer Ryan Wilde (Liquid State), and Anji Bee (Chandeen). The band will premier a very special Soul Whirling Somewhere remix produced for Lovespirals’ upcoming This Truth EP featuring remixes from their recent PLP Remix Contest. Tune in via iTunes, WinAmp, Real Audio Player, or Windows Media Player. The Lovespiralsgasms show will air LIVE from 10 to 11 pm EST. Ryan and Anji will also be on hand for a live chat in the Auralgams Chatroom.

iProng Magazine Lovespirals Artist Feature

The April 2nd “100% Podsafe” issue of iProng Magazine features an interview with Anji discussing Lovespirals, going podsafe, getting into podcasting, music licensing, live performance vs studio recording, and much more. Also included this issue is a great article on eMusic vs Amazon downloads, interviews with fellow podsafe artists Geoff Smith and Natalie Gelman, and an article with Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, who released their new single to the Podsafe Music Network. By the way, you can check out tons of Lovespirals tracks on the PMN for use on podcasts, internet radio, Second Life DJ sets, and more!

Here’s an excerpt from the interview from iProng Magazine 4/2008:

April 2, 2008: 100% PodSafe Edition, iProng Magazine Artist Feature

For someone who isn’t familiar with Lovespirals, how would you describe it to them?

We write and record all of our music together in our own home studio. As such, our music has a very intimate feel. Our sound doesn’t follow any particular genre model, instead, we play what we feel at the moment. We tend towards very melodic, bittersweet, and dreamy music that focuses on beautiful vocal harmonies and soulful guitar work, with liberal sprinklings of electric piano.

There’s always been a sort of tug of war in Lovespirals between jazzy electronica and folky rock. Each of our releases have come upon a different solution to this tension between the modern and vintage sides of our musical personalities. One the one hand, we both love the old vinyl albums we grew up with as kids, but on the other, we’re drawn to contemporary music and production techniques. The interesting thing about this is that while the casual listener assumes a song like “Caught in the Groove” from Long Way From Home was recorded with a full band, in actuality Ryan programmed the drums using a keyboard controller and samples, the piano is recorded with midi, and the guitars and bass were performed one track at a time in ProTools. The thing is, just because we’re using computer based recording techniques doesn’t mean our music has to sound like it was made with a computer, you know?

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Lovespirals Remix Contest Ends April 1st!

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Only a few days remain to enter the Peace Love Productions Lovespirals Remix Contest! All entries are due in by April 1st for consideration to win an iPod Touch, a year’s subscription to the PLP Producer’s Vault, all 3 Lovespirals’ CDs – personally autographed by Anji Bee and Ryan Lum – and inclusion on a Lovespirals remix digital EP and CD. Many cool remixes have been submitted, but there’s still room for more entries. The top 5 remixes will be featured on Lovespirals Podsafe Music Network remix page and considered for inclusion on a digital-only “This Truth” remix EP, and the runner-up remix will also receive all 3 Lovespirals’ CDs, personally autographed by the band. This is a great way for remix producers to get some exposure through podcasts and cross-promotion, so come join the fun!

Download the Lovespirals remix contest promo mp3 for your podcast or radio show!

Listen to the remix contest promo:
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Listen to the original mix of “This Truth:
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More Reviews of Lovespirals' 'Long Way From Home' CD

Reviews are still popping up of Lovespirals recent album, Long Way From Home, in partial thanks to the efforts of Ariel PR who helped to push the album when it was released this past October 23rd.

Jason Moore of Opus writes:

Ultimately, Lum and Bee are all about creating a mood with their music, a relaxed and blissed-out vibe that should be no stranger to fans of dreampop, chill-out electronica, and atmospheric pop. This is music for both late night sessions and noon daydreams, for both listening to at work when you need to escape the pressure of the day and at home when you simply need to unwind with a good book and a glass of wine.

Miles Klee said in Hot Indie News:

Bluesy slide guitar work sometimes shades over into Santana-like finger-meandering, and vocalist Anji Bee’s layered voice paints bright glaze over already dreamy arrangements. It’s as though the glancing disaffection of 80’s and 90’s dream-poppers has been filtered through an AM radio, a mutation that works by dint of sounding completely natural on an evolutionary view.

From the Green Arrow Radio blog:

More than melancholic music, there is a sense that they traveled with you on similar & familiar roads with the radio tuned to the same left of the dial station in the middle of wherever. After nearly a decade of artistic collaboration between singer/songwriter, Anji Bee, & multi instrumentalist & producer, Ryan Lum, it is no wonder that they have managed to put together an album of answers to questions yet asked with a subtle sultry sense of sound security.

The Celebrity Cafe‘s Ray Anderson mused:

Empty and sad, but of full of emotion, their album Long Way from Home is medicine for those that dig the alternative. How can you take a gut-wrenching classic like “Motherless Child” and make it sadder? Let the “Lovespirals” get a hold of it. It’s easy to fall into the loose, country-tinged groove of “Caught in a Groove” and let your soul be taken for a ride. By the time the “upbeat” “Lovelight” comes on, you won’t mind being “A Long Way from Home,” and I think you’ll want to stay there.

Read or written a great review of Lovespirals? Then post a link here, by all mean!

Lovespirals on Shifted Sound Podcast 98

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Two Lovespirals tracks and a promo for the “This Truth” remix contest were included on this week’s Shifted Sound Podcast Episode 98. Also included are some highly enjoyable poppy alternative tracks by Brad Laner, LeConcord and more. Shelby has got a great musical ear for sure!

Accident Hash Podcast #260 Includes Lovespirals

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Our buddy C.C. Chapman has once again shared his love of Lovespirals with his loyal audience in this “snowy afternoon” chillout session, Accident Hash style. If you’ve somehow been under a podcasting rock and haven’t heard his award winning show yet, check it out today! C.C.’s good humor, positivity, and love of music shines through in every podcast and never fails to bring a smile…

Chillin’ with Lovespirals #48

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Ryan and Anji are back with news and updates about their recording gear, “This Truth” Remix Contest, launch of a new Lovespirals/The Chillcast Beach Cottage created by Kirsty Hawkshaw in SecondLife, Lovespirals Feature on SolipsisticNATION, and 2 touching listener emails; one from fellow indie musician Tony Pucci, and the other from a NIU Grad Student. Please feel free to send your own listener email or audio comments into the band at info[at]lovespirals.com or just leave a comment on our blog at lovespirals.com!


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Solipsistic NATION Lovespirals Feature

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the excellent Solipsistic NATION podcast is featuring Lovespirals! Bazooka Joe interviews Ryan and Anji via Skype about the band’s evolving sound, their musical history, the effect of technology on the band, the duo’s songwriting process, and much more. Interspersed with the interview are 7 full length songs — including several special permissions (non-podsafe) tracks — and a few of Anji’s side projects.

Anji Bee featured on Behind the Monitor

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 Coverville #409

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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