Made up 2 promos for my videoblog this week. Here’s one of ’em. If you like the show, please consider posting this on your blog/site!
By the way, the background music is a remix of the Lovespirals track, “Walk Away,” by Sinq. It won the Peace Love Production remix contest awhile back.
Checking out the new relaunch of the PodShow+ site which now includes the Podsafe Music Network, I noticed that my band, Lovespirals, is dominating the Downtempo Top 10 chart. We currently hold the number 1, 2, and 9 spots. Not too shabby.
We’re actually gearing up to officially add our band podcast, Chillin’ with Lovespirals, to PodShow. I was thinking we could start doing vidcasts, or at least occasional videos, since Podshow makes it so easy to do and offers unlimited bandwidth. It would probably kill us to try and host videos ourselves!
This is certainly an exciting time filled with interesting possibilities…
I get excited about the relaunch of PodShow+ and the possibility of getting more involved with vidcasting, despite my lo-fi set up and little insecurities. Watch for some surprise historical video at the outro! Oh yeah, here’s a link to the YouTube video I mentioned…
Watch Chillin’ with Anji Bee #9
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In another personal episode, Anji muses over the issue of identity as she creates her anjibee.com website. Viewers will be tickled to hear more about her past navigating the various movements of the Los Angeles music scene. OK, yes, this is Anji writing in third person, so sue me/her!
Watch Chillin’ with Anji Bee #8
Holy crap! I’m owed money that I didn’t even know about. Good thing Sam just forwarded me this NY Times story about Soundexchange. I called them just now and determined that they do not have Lovespirals listed, and thus I would have missed out on performance royalties for plays on Pandora, Rhapsody and many other sites and services that I know my music is included on. Since I get checks from BMI, I thought I was covered, but apparently there’s more than one company gathering my money up for me. Sheesh there’s a lot to keep track of when you’re an indie artist!
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Amazing how there’s always wonderful new artists to discover on the Internet, isn’t it? I’ve got 5 new folks to introduce to you, plus a collaboration between myself and a returning Chillcast artist. Sometimes I feel bad that I don’t bring back artists sooner; it’s not coz I don’t love ’em, it’s just that there’s so many to choose from! If you’re one of these neglected artists, just gimme a friendly nudge via email, OK?
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Ryan and I talk about his upgrade to a Mac Mini running Parallels, the mysterious stink of his old iBook, 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, Cocteau Twins and more.
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A very nice review of The Chillcast just went up on the Calmscape site today, in the article entitled “Portable Chill” contributed by Plattitude:
The Chillcast is an all-podsafe show with a decidedly hip and sunny attitude. Host Anji Bee (who is one half of the chillout band Lovespirals) eases the listener into the music with her sexy, cool voice, and injects each episode with charisma and ambition. With a focus on emerging artists, The Chillcast spins downtempo electronica, nu-jazz, and chilled R&B, soul and worldbeat. Recent shows have featured artists such as Astrid Suryanto, Sunburn in Cypress, Bitter::Sweet, Chill Factor 5, Quinn and Seiji Toda.
Read the rest of the article at calmscape.com.
A low energy Anji explains the boxes in the corner, talks about the latest Lovespirals song in progress, and has a little chat with one of her viewers plus more on this sunshiny Thursday videoblog.
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In this first videoblog, Anji updates you with the latest news about an upcoming PodShow LA drama featuring — who else? Anji Bee! She also questions how she feels about his new medium and asks for feedback from the viewers.
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