I think I’ve been a teensy bit carried away the past month by The Daily Source Code. On the most recent Chillin with Lovespirals, I was about to say, “You know what? I think I could have recorded 2 or 3 podcasts in the time I spent recording, converting, and uploading my audio comments for DSC,” but Ryan cut me off before I finished. Oh well, it’s been really fun contributing to Adam’s show and I have to admit I’ve been flattered by the attention. Ryan’s been teasing about it, but that’s what I get, I guess! But come on, how cool is it that Adam was driving around in his brand new Jaguar while listening to “Abide” and telling the world he wished I was there with him? Oh, and strangely enough, I’ve been laying down the vocals for “Welcome to the Machine” which has the line “He loves to drive his Jaguar” – pronounced in the English way, how Adam says it!
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Podcast VS songwriting
Another week, still no podcast, I know… It happened again that when we found ourselves in the studio together, we were writing new music! It’s been great fun, and very productive towards our next album. I think I’ve counted 6 songs in the works right now, if I’m not mistaken. But the podcast is suffering. Yes. Hopefully over the weekend we can both get in there and do a podcast together. Sorry to keep ya’ll waiting.
Podcast late
Sorry we’ve been lagging on making a new podcast. Every time we’ve been in the studio together it’s to record music, not podcasts. Then I’ve been recording audio feedback for Daily Source Code, which has been fun, but is more time consuming that I thought it would be. I’m thinking about including some of Adam’s funny comments in our next podcast. Anyway, maybe somehow Ryan and I can take some time this weekend to do another podcast, but I can’t make any promises. I’ve resisted doing one without him, coz it just wouldn’t be the same by myself.
More site changes
Sent out a new subscriber email yesterday announcing all our new stuff. Now we’ve got an official webstore on the site that doubles as a brief discography. Figured it was high time we sold our own CDs here. We’re also offering the promotional poster for the new album. Of course, somebody had already ordered one when I checked this morning. We weren’t asking enough money to cover the shipping and postage, unfortunately. I don’t want to make any money on the poster, I just don’t want to lose money on it. Anyway. What else?
Oh yeah, so we finally have tracklistings for our CDs, which was totally missing before. Also created an mp3 page at long last, where you can download a few tracks directly from us, rather than going to MySpace or wherever. Hopefully our bandwidth can take it! Lots of little tweaks here and there, but that’s the main gist of it. It’s funny how much time and thought it can take to get something just right. I’m sure half the people that visit won’t really notice the changes, but Ryan and I sure do. Anyway, props to Ryan for the great webstore!
iTunes Offering 'Free & Easy'
Apple iTunes is now offering Free & Easy for purchase. The sound files sound really good and the artwork looks great. The only bummer is that they listed it as a “partial album” and aren’t offering a whole CD download price. WTF? This album is 30 seconds longer than the last one, and they didn’t list that as a “partial album.” Could it be because its only 9 tracks? Windblown Kiss had 10; maybe that’s the minimum? I dunno… Perhaps I should just contact someone and see if we can alter that in the entry. We can’t be the only folks in the world making 9 song albums. They are 9 rather long songs, after all.
Podcast Episode 8 Up now!
Yaaaawwwwn I am so tired. I don’t know about this whole time change thing, it’s too confusing. Anyway, the new podcast is up. It’s 10:10, oddly enough. We started a little contest, so go take a listen on the podcast page, if you haven’t already subscribed!
Amazon Disadvantage
Man, finally someone with some sense responded to my email at Amazon! After several weeks of frustration, we’ve gotten through to their customer service the fact that we do, in fact, have an account with them, and we do, in fact, have an active title listed on their site, and they have not, in fact, placed an order for copies. The release date is next week, so it would be nice if they actually had some stock on hand to fulfill orders. Other sites are already linking to the Amazon.com page for Free and Easy, like Live365 and AMG, so it would be great if folks could actually place the order, rather than just read about the CD. Ugh. I guess this is the really fun part of starting a label, huh?
Thanks to our fans
Just wanted to say thank you to all the folks who have already ordered our new CD over the past week. It’s so cool to actually see who is buying it, and to recognize so many of the names from past experiences with people, whether it be from our shows, buddy lists, customer reviews, or wherever! It feels nice to show personal attention to everyone by autographing the CDs and packaging them up ourselves, too. Of course, it’s always nice to sell CDs in stores and through Amazon or iTunes, but this one on one sale is kinda special. So thanks to all your early birds!
Buy Free and Easy online now!
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!
Groove Boutique Digs Lovespirals
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.
Cool stuff coming
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…
iTunes screwup
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?