Ryan and Anji are back with lots of personal and band news including the extended celebration of Anji’s birthday, the band’s harrowing winter storm incident, new recording gear, broken mixer update, a Lovespirals feature on Solipsistic Nation podcast, Long Way From Home on Pandora, Lovespirals guest DJing Yourgasms radio show, audio feedback from War-n of Hungry Lucy, and a clip of the new Chandeen song, “Tomorrow” featuring Anji’s vocals and lyrics.
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 album, Anji’s Chillcast announcement, and more – including a recent collaboration with Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff! By the way, you can purchase this collboration on eMusic.
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In this special extended episode, Anji and Ryan play each song from their new album Long Way From Home as they discuss how the album was created. In this behind-the-scenes podcast, the duo talk about the album’s influences, song writing, production secrets, and personal anecdotes. This features gives you great peek into Lovespirals‘ brand new third album!
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In this special episode, we present our Second Life acoustic performance from Oct. 27th. 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! Anyway, we hope you enjoy this stripped down set, recorded directly from our mixing board.
Setlist (and links to original recordings):
“Our Nights” from Windblown Kiss (2002)
“Walk Away” from Free & Easy (2005)
“Treading the Water” from Long Way From Home (2007)
“Empty Universe” from Long Way From Home (2007)
“Abide” from Free & Easy (2005)
“Lazy Love Days” from Long Way From Home (2007)
“Caught in the Groove” from Long Way From Home (2007)
“Once in a Blue Moon” from Long Way From Home (2007)
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!
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. Lovespirals ask for your help reviewing and recommending the new CD online and offer Lovespirals banners to link to on your blog or social media site. Plus they announce the two big Second Life events going on THIS WEEK on PodShow Island including a CD listening party October 23rd at 7pm PST and their first ever live performance in SL on Sat. October 27th at 7pm PST! They also read some listener email and close out the show with the Fave Nitemare remix of “This Truth.” If you haven’t already, please check out the new album at lovespirals.com/longway!
Anji “Riel” and Ryan “Lumley” of Lovespirals in Second Life
After 2 bigs Starbucks’ mochas, 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 answer to Anji’s vidcast question “will they click it?”, news of the preorder 2 for 1 special, our very first order for the new CD, the first public Anji Bee sighting, our fun weekend of updating lovespirals.com and chillcuts.com, our first CD review — from CC Chapman, Anji chosen as 6th most recognizable voice in podcasting, and we play the entire Lovespirals remix of “Motherless Child” from the completed Motherless Child EP. Props to RadioSpeljmr!