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
Ryan and Anji talk about recent recordings, chat about their local movie revival house, discuss the updated Love Spirals Downwards website, rant about Wikipedia, announce the winners of last episode’s Blisscent 1 CD giveaway contest, share fan email regarding the best way to buy music to support bands — as well as Lovespirals’ view of Pandora, iLike and Last.FM — and share the theme song for Anji’s new podcast, Lovely Ladies, written by Lovespirals and Beauty’s Confusion.
As mentioned in the podcast, here are past episodes including Pandora:
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The band chat about the latest Lovespirals news including their recent website overhaul, gear acquisition, fun song licensing placements, new songwriting and recording, as well as chat about finding good “guy hair” in Second Life, “What Is War-N Listening To On iLike?,” are RSS readers just for geeks, and much more. And last – but not least – Ryan and Anji share a clip of “Sundrenched,” the 7th completed track from their upcoming 3rd album.
My first show of the new year gives you a wrap up of my holiday celebrations and recent podcasting, blogging, and band activities, and laments the downside of podcasting over the holiday season. BTW, here’s my iLike Picks and the i am nerd podcast site… [ed. just noticed my intro slip – doh!]
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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, including a Ryan rant on speakers and subwoofers, Ryan becomes an iLike convert, Anji shares fan mail connecting her to French Maid TV, Anji shares her “Internet Land Bridge Theory” and that’s about it…
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Anji and Ryan sit down for their final episode of the year! Topics include iLike, the Podsafe Music Network, fan feedback, more Anji podcasts, a recent Lovespirals performance, and a holiday song to cap it all off!
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