Chillin' with Lovespirals

The band usher in the new year with news of their expanded studio, Lovespirals' most popular episode, the official release of the Motherless Child EP, recent webtool and shareware discoveries, online and terrestrial radio airplay of the new Long Way From Home album, Anji's big Chillcast Video announcement, and more -- including a recent collaboration with Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff musical podcast wit...

In this extended episode, Anji and Ryan play each song from the new Lovespirals album Long Way From Hom e as they discuss how they created the album. In this special behind-the-scenes podcast, the duo talk about the album’s influences, their song writing process, production secrets, and personal anecdotes. This features gives you great peek into the album! Buy a jewel case CD or digital download o...

Ryan and Anji talk about recent Long Way From Home news items including last week's live performance podcast , Lovespirals' Re:Gen Magazine feature , Lovespirals' Shameless Plugcast feature , airplay on terrestrial radio, recent reviews from the All Music Guide and Cadence Revolution , fan reviews on Amazon , iTunes , plus announce next week's special feature and close the show out with Brian Noe...

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 firs...

Ryan & Anji are back in town and preparing for the official release of Long Way From Home TOMORROW! The band reflect on their travels through Humboldt County, sharing photos on Anji's Flickr album . Updates on the new CD on Amazon MP3 Store , Amazon Advantage , Last FM , iLike , and Garageband . Plus they announce the two big Second Life events going on THIS WEEK on  PodShow Island including a...

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...

After a trip to Starbucks, the band are super amped to share the latest news and stories including Anji’s iMac pooping out amidst the flurry of promotion for Long Way From Home , the necomancer who made the first order of our CD, the first public Anji Bee sighting, updating our various websites, getting our first CD review from CC Chapman , Anji being the 6th most recognizable voice in podcasting...

Our podcast has hit the big 4-0! Update on the new Lovespirals album progress, our New Media Expo 2007 plans - including a ShowGirls meet 'n' greet and Lovespirals unplugged performance, review of the B.B. King show at Hollywood Bowl, John Mayer boosted our stats, Chillcast #80 RSS problem and stat anomaly, band email, Love Spirals Downwards reissue update, "Motherless Child" Remix EP news -- incl...

We've got 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, our New Media Expo 2007 plans, several new compilations, email from Pat Ogle, AND...

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 , MySpac...

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...

Big update on the upcoming 3rd Lovespirals album,  Long Way From Home , including a clip of the now-completed 10th track, "Motherless Child" on Podsafe Music Network , Daily Source Code , and Accident Hash , plus 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!

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 M...

Ryan and Anji jump back into the band podcast with breaking news of the digg.com HD-DVD controversy , which has further evolved since recording this, plus the band give you an update on the new Lovespirals CD, ask listeners for advice on the new album title, announce potential future gigs, share gnome news, read an awesome fan email from Juan, debate album posters VS postcards, and share a clip fr...

Ryan and Anji rant about taxes, tip their hat to Amazon Advantage, rant more about Wikipedia , put in their 2 cents on the iTunes EMI announcement, explain Twitter, Tweetbar, TwitterVision, Twitteritas and the connection between Twitter and Second Life , share some recent music placements, give you an update on the upcoming Lovespirals album, and share the theme song for Anji's new podcast, Unwind...

Ryan and Anji talk about recent recordings, chat about their local movie revival house , discuss the updated Love Spirals Downwards website and upcoming reissues, rant about Wikipedia , announce the winners of last episode's Blisscent 1 CD giveaway contest, share a fan email asking for the best method of buying music to support bands -- as well as Lovespirals' view of Pandora , iLike , and Last. F...

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...

The band chat about the latest Lovespirals news including overhauling the site with WordPress, using royalties from MTV shows like The 70's House for gear acquisition, new songwriting and recording, as well as preparing to perform in SecondLife , more ShowGirls news, Last. FM vs iLike, are RSS readers just for geeks, and more. And last - but not least - Ryan and Anji share a clip of "Sundrenched"...

Ryan and Anji give a brief rundown of their New Year's celebrations -- including Anji's Tofurky Roast feast, the band wax poetic on recent audio equipment updates, Ryan becomes an iLike convert, iLike VS Mog VS Pandora, Anji shares fan mail connecting her to French Maid TV , Anji shares her "Internet Land Bridge Theory" and that's about it... LINKS: www.lovespirals.com www.lovespiralsdownwards.com...

Anji and Ryan sit down for their final episode of the year! Topics include Anji joining the Sirius Stars 102 show lineup, embarrassing moments on  iLike , the Podsafe Music Network , fan feedback, Anji's new Show Girls podcast, Lovespirals's first living room concert, and more! We share a clip of Ryan's 1999 recording of "Little Drummer Boy" featuring his previous singer, Suzanne Perry. Additional...

Anji and Ryan are back with the latest band news -- including a big, big podcast announcement and a big, big CD sale, plus more music geekery, and listener feedback, including an audio feedback from CC Chapman of the award winning Accident Hash podcast! LINKS: www.lovespirals.com www.lovespiralsdownwards.com www.anjibee.com

Ryan and Anji update you in the saga of Ryan's new Mac Mini and how it affects progress on Lovespirals' current recording sessions, reminisce about sneaking into NAMM , share Ryan's "second choice theory," make a big podcast announcement, and answer listener email, as Anji tries not to cough into the mic. LINKS: www.lovespiralsdownwards.com www.lovespirals.com www.anjibee.com

In this fun Halloween episode the band chat about the evils of CRT monitors and B.O. iBooks , their scary LA Day of the Dead trip to visit Joyce Burstein where Ryan discovers the magic of Huichol yarn paintings, plus band news, listener feedback and more! LINKS: www.lovespirals.com www.lovespiralsdownwards.com www.anjibee.com

Ryan and I talk about his upgrade to a Mac Mini running Parallels, the mysterious stink of his old iBook (aka StinkTop), PodShow forgetting to renew their domain, my launch of anjibee.com, plus I read a touching fan email from MySpace , share my own fan story of Robert Cray and more. Be excellent!

Ryan and Anji hop back in the saddle for a retooled post-PME extravaganza! The band talk about how they almost missed the big podcasting expo because of  Bones , discuss recent song placements on TV, talk about Audio Scrobbler and how it works with both Last. FM and iTunes, John Mayer, getting back in touch with Jennifer Ryan Fuller, upcoming 2007 releases and more! Lovespirals have a funky new ou...