Crap! I just realized I missed Robin’s show at Club Violaine last night!!! I was working out in Santa Monica and went to dinner afterwards with some friends and it totally slipped my mind. Somehow I was thinking it was tonight. What a bummer… I really enjoyed his show at The Knitting Factory a few months back. I wonder how it went last night with the whole improv set thing?

OK, I’m going to admit that I watch American Idol. I brought it up at the show the other day, and someone in the crowd shouted out “Scott needs to go home!” But he ended up staying last week. I’m wondering if he might go home tonight, though? There seems to be a strong contingent of teenage girls into Federov, for whatever reason. I find him very annoying. The other 3 have been my favorites...

If you’ve ever wondered what Anji did musically before joining forces with Ryan, then check out her solo page at: soundclick/anjibee. You can also listen to an interview by DJ Carolee during Lovespirals 2002 tour on Anji’s page. While you’re there, be sure to see both soundclick/lovespirals and soundclick/lovespiralsdownwards for some exclusive content!

I was going through some old recordings I did with my old band, Datura, and decided to put them online for fans to check out. It’s funny hearing them after so much time has gone by. I realize how little I really knew about music or singing when I began. What’s funny to think about is how I kept slacking off on sending a demo to Projekt back then. Veronica begged me to send Sam a CDR, thinking he’d...

John from the Suburban Lawn’s (anyone remember them?) lives down the street and was having a little garage sale last weekend, so I brought Ryan along for the friend’s only presale. Turns out he picked up Su Tissue’s old Bassman amp head from John. The thing sounds pretty amazing. Ryan geeked out and did a ton of research on it, narrowing down the date and everything. I guess he should really...

Thanks to our fans, friends, and family for coming out to support us last night! Also a big thanks to Rodney Rodriguez for playing guest guitar in our set. Oh, and to Louise Fraser for booking us with her band, The Flir. Ryan and I had a lot of fun hanging with Rod after soundcheck over at Poom Thai and I really enjoyed sharing a drink with Louise after our show. Good times, all the way around! We’ll definitely...

Rodney Rodriguez (formerly of The Von Trapps and Elysium) who performed with Love Spirals Downwards for their final live shows in 1998 — as well as with Suzanne Perry’s new band, Melodyguild — will be joining Ryan and Anji at their show this Thursday on second guitar. This is the first time Lovespirals have worked with another guitarist, so it should be pretty exciting. Doron will not be joining...

Just finished uploading a fairly complete interview archive to the LSD site this weekend. It’s composed of 18 pdf files of scanned magazine articles dated between 1992 and 1999, some of which are quite interesting. The first Fond Affexxions one is particularly cool, as it contains a number of unique photographs that we don’t even have copies of. If anyone out there has a magazine feature that’s...

Our upcoming show is going to be quite different from our previous ones. Ryan is going all out with his live guitar work now. He’s using my Strat and Fender amp now, which gives him a really different sound than the hollowbody he was bringing to shows before. Now he’s all about guitar solos! He did one or two in past shows, but mainly focused on the rhythm guitar stuff. I prefer what he’s doing...

Ryan was talking to his old friend, Tom, about doing percussion for our live shows last year sometime. We haven’t taken the time to meet up and work together yet, though. Anyway, it turns out that he’s playing drums for the band Red Lily at the 14 Below show. Great opportunity for him to check out our live set and see if he thinks he’d fit into the sound. Oh yeah, we also heard from Rodney,...