ReGen Magazine is currently featuring Lovespirals front page with a great new interview by Matthew Johnson. Ryan and Anji discuss their musical influences, recording techniques, and how their music has evolved from Windblown Kiss to Long Way From Home. The band also talks about Love Spirals Downwards, the podsafe music movement, Second Life, the digital music revolution, Radiohead’s new album, and more.
In this special episode, we present our Second Life acoustic performance from Oct. 27th. This was recorded directly from the mixer so there’s no ambient sounds like the water — or the laughing fish that resides near the stage we played. If you have no idea what I’m taking about, check out the video capture of “Walk Away” on YouTube. This is the first live set in support of Long Way From Home, and the first Lovespirals Second Life performance. By the way, the folks from PodShow Island said we had 760 listeners on their audio streams in addition to the full house watching in-game, pretty crazy! We hope you enjoy this stripped down set.
UPDATE: In addition to the live listeners, this episode has now had over 15,000 downloads/streams!
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Download Lovespirals Long Way From Home CD Promo (57 sec)
Check out this cool little promo for Lovespirals new album created by Brian Noe at PodShow. If you’re a podcaster, Internet radio broadcaster, or other broadcaster please feel free to play this on your show!
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Download Lovespirals’ Shameless Plugcast MP3
Zack Daggy interviews Ryan Lum and Anji Bee of Lovespirals about their band history, musical process, brand new album, Long Way From Home, and more in a Shameless Plugcast feature. Included in the show are two podsafe Lovespirals songs. Zack’s also running an autographed CD contest – see shamelessplugcast.com for details!
On Wednesday Nov. 7th, Anji will host a Lovespirals RockMe. Session on Me.dium, taking users on a tour of various band assets online in this unique social browsing platform. Come chat and interact with Anji and fans of the band in this first-of-its-kind online music event beginning at 1pm PST. For more info, see the PR Newswire press release.
Anji Bee says “hello” to Me.dium users for her RockMe session
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Ryan and Anji chat about seeing Neil Young perform and discuss how he’s inspired the band, talk about the official release of Long Way From Home – including being on the newly launched iTunes+, share a few fan emails and listener reviews from Amazon, iTunes, and LastFM, announce other sites selling or promoting the new album, including CDBaby, iLike, Virb, and iMeem, talk about their first performance in Second Life on PodShow Island, announce the Love Spirals Downwards reissues, and more. The show closes with “This Truth” live and acoustic!
Lovespirals’ avatars, Anji Riel and Ryan Lumley, are setting up for their first ever performance in Second Life tonight, Saturday October 27th, at 7pm SLT (PST) on PodShow-SoHo Island. They tell me the sim is gonna fill up fast, so be sure to get there on time so you aren’t left out! Direct link to venue: slurl.com/secondlife/SoHo/11/158/23
Lovespirals’ brand new 3rd album is now available for sale on iTunes+ and Amazon Mp3. Both of these new digital services offer music in 256k no DRM format for just 99 cents per track. Now you can download Lovespirals’ music in wonderful high fidelity with the ability to listen on any device you own, hassle free! Amazon also offers ‘Long Way From Home’ in CD format, as does CDBaby, and the Lovespirals Webstore.
Lovespirals are featured on the Best Podsafe Music Podcast award-winning show, Accident Hash! CC Chapman plays his favorite track from Long Way From Home, the album opener “Caught in the Groove.” He also announces our Second Life show tomorrow night, which Accident Hash is co-presenting, despite the fact that CC will be attending Podcamp Boston. Listen to the clip featuring us above, or go listen to the full show via PodShow!
Thank you to everybody who pre-ordered the new CD. Today we officially release Lovespirals’ third album, Long Way From Home. So if you haven’t ordered it yet, now is the time do to so from our webstore – and get the “Motherless Child” remix EP digital download FREE!
And just a reminder that we’ll be appearing at a listening party for the new album in Second Life on the PodShow Island Podcast Premier Stage this evening at 7pm PST (also Second Life time). See you there!
There will be two Second Life events going on next week on PodShow/SoHo Island for the official release of Lovespirals’ Long Way From Home CD. First is a listening party for both the new album and the Motherless Child EP on Tuesday, October 23rd at 7pm SLT. Then, on Saturday, October 27th, Lovespirals will perform for the first time in Second Life, also at 7 pm SLT on PodShow/SoHo Island. Ryan “Lumley” and Anji “Riel” will play an acoustic set of songs from all 3 of their albums. If you haven’t yet joined Second Life, now would be the time to do it! Lovespirals live events are few and far between…
Lovespirals’ brand new album is available for download on the new Amazon Mp3 store. Individual songs are offered for 99 cents, or you can buy the whole album for $8.99. Files are encoded as 256 kbps mp3 files, as opposed to the 128 kbps AAC files of iTunes, and are DRM free. Check out Long Way From Home on Amazon mp3. If you prefer, you can order the physical CD of Long Way From Home on Amazon.com for $13.98 + shipping.
