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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 57: Viva Las Vegas

Ryan and Anji are back from Vegas to tell a tale or two about their time at the New Media Expo 2008. Lovespirals also ponder attending SxSW Interactive, discuss being recording artists vs performers, share their quest for the perfect vintage diesel Mercedes leading them to JGs Mercedes, rave about the Microbaby amp, give an update on the This Truth EP, announce Mr. Meeble‘s album release show, quickly review the Etta James show at Hollywood Bowl and Vicky Christina Barcelona, brag about Anji’s photo of the Hotel San Carlos on Schmap, and play a new remix of Anji’s CC Asia Band collaboration, “Favor Tweet,” by Loveshadow called “Vipasyana (Tell Me How You Feel)” featuring Forensic (download free from ccMixter.org).

Lovespirals @ Coverille 500 Show
Ryan & Anji @ Coverville 500 Concert

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Chillin' with Lovespirals #56: Going to NME 2008

Gmail borked today so we thought we’d get off our butts and record a podcast during the downtime! Ryan and Anji discuss last minute plans to attend PME 2008 in Vegas next weekend, helping their friend Azita to “fix” her Internet, failing a vanity search of “Anji Bee” on the new Cuil search engine, as well as respond to a clip from Tea With Hungry Lucy #120 about copying their song “Storm,” announce exciting “This Truth” remix release news, get excited about the Loverush Digital and Damien S. remix package, chat about the CABACA release and ccMixter remixes, and play the full mp3 of “Favor Tweet” by Takeru Ishikawa and Anji Bee.

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Sorry for the weird loud ocean sounds in the intro!

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Chillin’ with Lovespirals #54: So Many Distractions

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Ryan and Anji have been distracted by the new iPod 3G, checking out the music apps — like Pandora, Shazam, and Last.FM, making ringtones, and installing the podcasters iKit to make the podcast easily streamable from your iPod (or iPod Touch). Still, they’ve continued working on music and share a clip and behind the music story of their latest song in progress. The band also chat about Geoff Smith’s ringtone service, getting recognized by Brad of The National Pool in WOW, and Hungry Lucy‘s song “Storm.” BTW, in case you missed it, here is our Lovespiralsgasms set from Auralgasms Radio. They close out the show with a clip of their latest song in progress, “Rain.”

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Lovespirals Spotted at Club Violaine

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Joe of drunkrockers.com caught a few shots of Ryan and Anji hanging out at Club Violaine for the big 5th Year Anniversary party featuring Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom’s Los Angeles debut as Stripmall Architecture. (The duo are best known as Halou…)

It was a really great show and it was good to catch up with friends, including Eric Shied, plus formers members of The Von Trapps Nick Marshall, Rodney Rodriguez, and Matt Gleason. Rodney and Matt both played with Melodyguild for a time, and Matt is featured on the Aitu release..

You can see the full set of photos from the show in the DrunkRockers Violaine Archive.

Eric & Ryan
Ryan & Nick
Rodney & Matt
Nick & Anji

And if you missed this show but live in the San Fran area, you can still catch the R/R Coseboom performance at the IXMAE Supper Club coming up on September 11th.

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Lovespiralsgasms: Ryan & Anji Host Auralgasms Radio

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In case you didn’t hear the band’s 1 hour guest spot on Auralgasms Radio last night, don’t cry! While you did miss out on a fun chat session in the Auralgasms chatroom with Lovespirals at least you can hear a pristine archival copy of the show. Ryan and Anji chat between each song, giving not only track information, but a little insight into the music and musicians involved. The show seemed to be a big hit last night, so hopefully you’ll love it, too! Almost forgot to mention, this was the world premier of the completed SWS remix of “This Truth” – and boy, is it a goodie!!!

  1. “Sundrenched” Lovespirals Long Way From Home (2007)
  2. “Motherless Child (Karmacoda Remix)” Lovespirals Motherless Child EP (2007)
  3. “Walk Away (Bitstream Dream Remix)” Lovespirals Walk Away EP (2004)  Download Free Mp3
  4. “This Truth (Soul Whirling Somewhere Remix) This Truth EP (2008)  — unreleased
  5. “Depression Glass” Love Spirals Downwards Ardor [Remastered Reissue] (2007)
  6. “Unraveling” Liquid State Late Bloom (2008)
  7. “Accomplice” Melodyguild Aitu EP (2008)
  8. “An Angel, Ameliorate” Falling You (feat. Suzanne Perry) Human (2006)
  9. “Tomorrow [Hidden Track following “Dreaming a Thousand Dreams]” Chandeen (feat. Anji Bee) Teenage Poetry (2008)
  10. “Lazy Love Days” Lovespirals Long Way From Home (2007)

Thanks to Mikey for setting up this fun show and to everyone who tuned in and came by to chat – especially Riki and CocteauBoy! Music provided by the Podsafe Music Network, Projekt Records, and the bands themselves.

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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 53: It’s Not All Work

More Lovespirals madness including our camping recap, writing and recording new songs, our concert-filled weekend with the Outernational Tour and Melodyguild at Violaine, our Lovespiralsgasms radio show and live chat, the Lovely Ladies of Ryan Lum podcast, Lovespirals on Coverville #474 podcast, playing World of Warcraft, running into Jamie of Closedown, Anji collaborating with The Grooveblaster, and more!

Ryan chillin’ on the beach while camping on Catalina Island, 2008
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Vote for Lovespirals on StereoFame Movie Soundtrack Contest

People often tell us our music would be great in a movie soundtrack. Well, here’s your chance to help us achieve that dream! Music site, StereoFame, is holding a contest for artists to have a song included on the soundtrack of the upcoming film, Like Dandelion Dust, with full screen credits plus attendance at the film’s premier here is Los Angeles. Lovespirals have been on many cable and television shows, but we have yet to make it into a Hollywood film. Maybe this could be the first? Help us reach our goal by voting for Lovespirals on the StereoFame Movie Soundtrack Contest. Simply search for “Lovespirals” in the handy contestant search tool. Voters also have a chance to win travel and hotel accommodations to attend the film premier – bonus!

Lovespirals were featured front page this week on Stereofame
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Lovespirals on Coverville #474: Indie Hodgepodge

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.

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Chillin’ with Lovespirals 52: Blew Our Wad

The band return after a month’s hiatus to catch you up with all the latest news! Ryan uses the MAudio Virtual String Machine on Lovespirals’ latest songs, Anji contributes to the CC Asia Band project headed up by MoShang, Soul Whirling Somewhere completes a gorgeous remix of “This Truth,” emails from Kambronn and Pomatic (check out his new Paul Van Dyk remix), free Lovespirals song streams on Muxtape and LastFM, planning a camping getaway, and more. The show closes with a clip of “Crossing the Pond” by Snoblind and Anji Bee plus other CABACA guest musicians.

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Fan Discovers Lovespirals via MoShang via Second Life

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Its always interesting to find out how fans discover our music and sometimes the connections are surprising. A recent post on Second Arts blog details Morris Vig’s musical journey, courtesy of Second Life. Apparently a chance MoShang performance in SL lead to the discovery of Lovespirals (via MoShang’s remix of “Motherless Child,” no doubt), as well as The Chillcast with Anji Bee, which has long been a strong supporter of MoShang. Even more fun is that MoShang was Vig’s gateway into the chillout music scene. May we be the first to say, “Welcome!”

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