Ryan and Anji return with plenty of band news including a plug for the Unwind Lovespirals/Love Spirals Downwards Spotlight, remixes of “Motherless Child” from our upcoming new album, a newly podsafe remix of “Walk Away”, and potential live shows, plus an explanation of our studio band VS performing band predicament, and news of our future recording studio. PLUS we share a clip from the brand new MoShang “No Place Like Home” Mix of “Motherless Child.” Don’t miss it!
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Unwind Lovespirals/Love Spirals Downwards Spotlight
This week’s episode of Unwind with Anji Bee is a half-hour feature on Lovespirals, and its earlier incarnation, Love Spirals Downwards. Band founder, Ryan Lum, joins show hostess and Lovespirals vocalist, Anji Bee, in-studio to discuss the band’s 16 year history during one of the most revolutionary periods in music. From 8 track cassette to digital recording, indie record label success to totally indie self-release, fanzine and college radio to website and podcasts – we talk a bit about all the changes the band has experienced. We also premier a brand new track from our upcoming album!
Tracklisting:
- “Amarillo” Love Spirals Downwards Ever (1996)
- “Love’s Labours Lost” Love Spirals Downwards Idylls (1992)
- “Subsequently” Love Spirals Downwards Ardor (1994)
- “Windblown Kiss” Lovespirals Windblown Kiss (2002)
- “Our Nights” Lovespirals Windblown Kiss (2002)
- “Sandcastles (Podsafe Edit)” Lovespirals Free & Easy (2005)
- “Abide” Lovespirals Free & Easy (2005)
- “Motherless Child” Lovespirals Long Way From Home (Oct. 2007)
- “Unwind Theme Song” Lovespirals Unwind Podcast (2007) Free Mp3
Lovespirals Featured Artist on PodChick
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One of Anji’s ShowGirls podcast co-hostesses, KFC, has featured Lovespirals on the new Music Monday’s segment of her PodChick Podcast. Check out 4 songs from the band; 3 from the Podsafe Music Network, plus a special pick for her show!
Anji Interviewed on Shameless Plugcast #2
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Anji is the special guest on today’s Shameless Plugcast, being interviewed by show host, Zack Daggy, about Lovespirals, vocal influences, podcasting, vidcasting, radio DJing, The Chillcast, Unwind, Lovely Ladies et al, plus a listener question from Ed Ovett, of Ed’s Mixed Bag Podcast.
Lovespirals 3rd CD Due in 2007!
Anji and Ryan are currently recording music for their upcoming 3rd album to be released later this year. Tentatively titled, Long Way From Home, the album futher explores Lovespirals’ unique brand of blues, folk, and jazz influenced dream pop — more akin to the band’s debut 2002 release, Windblown Kiss, than their electronica focused 2005 CD, Free & Easy. Discussions are underway as to whether the band will self-release on their own Chillcuts label or partner up with an indie label for a co-release. Either way, Lovespirals intend to make music available for podcasters, music bloggers, and internet radio as they have done with all previous releases.
Stay tuned to lovespirals.com – particularly to the band podcast, Chillin’ with Lovespirals – for developing details!
Anji Bee Feature on XtraChill Intensiv
Andreas interviewed Anji for a special feature on his new XtraChill Intensiv podcast. The feature includes several tracks each from Lovespirals, Bitstream Dream, and Plastic Chair, giving an overview of Anji’s work from the past 5 years or so. This is a bilingual interview, with in German and English — but music is the universal language, right?
Love Spirals Downwards CDs in Webstore
Two Love Spirals Downwards CDs have been added to the Lovespirals webstore this week. The first is 1998’s Flux, which includes the Kristen Perry co-written song, “Psyche,” that aired on Dawson’s Creek and “Sunset Bell” – featuring Jennifer Ryan-Fuller – which appeared on La Femme Nikita. The second is 1996’s Ever, whose ambient electronica track “Madras” – featuring hypnotic vocals by Suzanne Perry – was selected last year for the iTunes Essentials Shoegaze & Beyond playlist alongside legendary bands Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, and more. Band founder, Ryan Lum, will personally autograph any LSD album sold through the webstore.
Chillin’ with Lovespirals Episode 31: Morons & Idiots
Ryan and Anji return with tales of woe and delight including fire alarms and idiot neighbors, Kevin Rose‘s GoDaddy Superbowl commerical, Anji’s birthday celebration, Ryan getting hit on in SecondLife, listener comments from episode 30 — including a response from War-N of Hungry Lucy — plus a Lovespirals contest announcement, and another new song from their upcoming album. You might find this review of Blisscent 1 handy after listening to the show…
Big changes at lovespirals.com
Lots of updates are being made to the band site this month, the biggest of which is integrating WordPress into it so we can connect with the blogosphere at large. Now the front page of the site has a continuous feed of our news, podcast, and blog entries — all mixed up together, but tagged with categories. You can still view just news or blog entries on separate pages if you like, as well. We’re still ironing out all the kinks and figuring out what works best, but it looks pretty good and it’s functioning, so feel free to poke around and make some comments!
Anji "Bee"comes A Sirius Stars DJ
Anji’s podsafe music show, The Chillcast with Anji Bee is now part of Adam Curry’s Podshow lineup on Sirius Stars 102 every Tuesday night at 7 pm EST/10 pm PST. If you don’t have Sirius satellite radio, you can still subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or your favorite RSS reader!
Anji's Top 20 of 2006!
I thought I’d put together a Top 20 list of my favorite podsafe songs of 2006, then I realized I should present it as a podcast. Duh! It was fun to put together, but boy were the shownotes a pain in the ass… Anyway, I did all the hard work so you can just enjoy the tunes and direct links to the band’s mp3s and websites. Lucky you! Check it out.
Anji's Top 10 Holiday Songs
Matt Rowe tapped me for a list of my Top 10 holiday tracks for musictap.net this week! You might be surprised by a few of my choices… I actually looked at my hit count in iTunes to verify what seems to be my biggest holiday themed songs. I decided not to include any Lovespirals or Love Spirals Downwards related tracks, even though I do enjoy listening to them… Anyway, here’s my list:
- “Last Christmas” by Wham!
- “Feliz Navidad” by Jose Feliciano
- “Winter Wonderland” by Cocteau Twins
- “Little Drummer Boy” David Bowie & Bing Crosby
- “Aspenglow” by John Denver
- “Candle Song” by Mojave 3
- “25th December” Everything But The Girl
- “St. Patrick’s Day” by John Mayer
- “So This Is Christmas” John Lennon
- “Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo” South Park