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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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Download Chillin’ with Lovespirals #44 MP3
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 are the featured artist on this week’s PodShow Radio. Host, Brent Bradley, presents 43 minutes of podsafe Lovespirals tunes selected from all 3 albums, including their brand new single, “This Truth,” from Long Way From Home. The band also give a little background on why and how they recorded a cover of “Motherless Child.” It’s a very smooth production you won’t want to miss!
Lovespirals back from the 3 day podcast expo with plenty of tales to share about fellow podcasters such as Dawn and Drew, the Extreme Pods crew, Adam Curry, CC Chapman, Julien Smith, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, the RumorGirls, Britney Mason, and Geoff Smith. Also, Lovespirals news including our site relaunch, the first batch of Long Way From Home CDs going out, and a sweet fan email from Julie. Plus personal stories including Lovespirals’ environmental tips, listening to Tea with Hungry Lucy, attending an Air concert, and seeing Jimmy Bratcher live. We close out the show with a clip of The Black Channel Citizen remix of “Motherless Child” from the Motherless Child EP.
Links:
Buy Long Way From Home on CD & Digital and get an immediate digital download as well from Bandcamp
Get the Motherless Child EP in your choice of digital download from Bandcamp
A few photos from Lovespirals trip to PME 2007:
More Lovespirals news than you can shake a stick at including our new mobile recording setup including a MacBook Pro, M-Audio Fast Track Pro, MCA SP1 mic and Sennheiser HD 280 Headphones, Ryan loving Facebook but hating MySpace, designing the Long Way From Home digipac artwork, ShowGirls wins PodcastAwards, Lovespirals’ New Media Expo 2007 plans, our inclusion on the Asian Variations and Projekt 200 compilation CDs, forming a street team, Pat Ogle email, a live song clip AND an extra special contest for your chance to win a copy of the Projekt 200 limited edition 3 CD boxed set with an brand new Lovespirals track! The show closes with a clip of us playing an unreleased song live.
Lots of Lovespirals news including mastering Long Way From Home with Robert Rich, photo sessions results, voting for The Chillcast with Anji Bee on PodcastAwards July 28th – Aug 11th, launch of the Anji Bee Music Store, New Media Expo 2007, Ryan’s birthday on July 31st, an LA Times story about the SoundExchange controversy, fan emails, social media sites Pownce, Ziki, Ning, Facebook, MySpace, and more – plus we share the a clip of the Karmacoda Mix of “Motherless Child”. Happy Birthday to Sean Bowley!
Sorry for the month long lapse, but Lovespirals have been crazy busy preparing to release the new album! Ryan and Anji talk about that album progress, as well as our upcoming mastering session with Robert Rich, photo sessions, and cover art design, plus the Lovespirals CoverCast on Student Loan Radio, Anji’s recent work with Moosefrog, Pownce VS Twitter, the SoundExchange controversy, Creative Commons, The Chillcast with Anji Bee on PodcastAwards, starting up a band email list, and more — plus we share the Hungry Lucy Mix of “Motherless Child” in it’s entirety!
Ryan and I guest hosted Christopher Penn’s Student Loan Radio CoverCast #2 this weekend, and no — we didn’t talk about financial aid! The band were given the opportunity to share recordings of songs written by John Denver, America, and Pink Floyd, due to Financial Aid Podcast‘s recent acquisition of an ASCAP/BMI podcasting license. Woo hoo! Check it out, and if you enjoy it, please go comment on Chris’s blog to let him know![audio:http://cache.libsyn.com/financialaidpodcast/20070708.mp3]
Anji contributed vocals and lyrics to two tracks on the latest Moosefrog EP, Adrift, on the Creative Commons based label, Lo-Kiwi. The entire 7-song release – including Anji’s tracks “New Life” and “En La Oscuridad” – are available for free download in zip file or individual mp3 format, and both podcasters and Internet radio DJs are more than welcome to include the songs in their playlists.
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Listen to “New Life (ft. Anji Bee)” from Adrift (2007 Lo-Kiwi)
Big update on the upcoming 3rd Lovespirals CD, Long Way From Home, including a clip of the completed 10th track, “Motherless Child” on Podsafe Music Network, Daily Source Code, and Accident Hash, lots about the John Mayer concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Lovespirals on Facebook and other web 2.0 sites, Anji’s upcoming Levinhurst feature and more!
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!
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