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Chillin' with Lovespirals
by Lovespirals
Originally launched in June 2005, Chillin' with Lovespirals is one of the first-ever band podcasts, hosted by the innovative husband-and-wife duo, Ryan and Anji Lum. Always ahead of the curve, Ryan, a visionary producer, transitioned from analog to digital recording in the late '90s, while Anji quickly established herself as a pioneer of online music promotion. In 2005, she founded the digital media company, Chillcuts, to maintain control over their music as they foresaw the shift from CDs to digital formats at the turn of the millennium. In this laid-back and insightful podcast, Ryan and Anji discuss their creative process, the technology behind their music and videos, and how they've stayed relevant in the ever-evolving digital music landscape. With personal stories, inspiring artist discoveries, and behind-the-scenes looks at life as modern-day content creators, Chillin' with Lovespirals offers an engaging mix of creativity, tech talk, and indie music insigh
Episodes
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 102: Gray [First Podcast of 2026]
Ryan and Anji return to Chillcast Studio to discuss their brand new single and music video, share and respond to listener comments, talk up their upcoming February release, and just overall provide a peek behind the scenes of being an independent recording act working in a genre-fluid style. SHOW...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals Episode 101: Drift Begins & More News
Ryan & Anji are back with the last jam-packed episode of the year. They discuss the creation, release, and response to the brand new single, "Drift Again," give a slight update on their October single, "Without You," talk about several holiday singles Ryan has recorded over the years with Anji…
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Chillin with Lovespirals 100: Without You & Band Anniversaries
Ryan & Anji are back with another jam-packed episode celebratting not only their brand new single, "Without You," but also several band anniversaries! The duo's 100th episode in the 20th year since it's inception being one of the biggies. Lovespirals talk about the making of their new single,...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 99: Anymore, Molten Remix, Flux Vinyl
Ryan and Anji return with a new episode jam packed with news, from their new single "Nothing Even Matters Anymore," to a new Love Spirals Downwards remix of Blue Ringed Baby + Kami, to a special eco-vinyl release of 'Flux,' to a brand new track they started writing this weekend, the duo cover it...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 98: Glittering
Ryan & Anji return to discuss their latest single, "Glittering," sharing listener comments and behind the scenes stories about its creation, release, and promotions. They also talk about some improvements Ryan made to his custom telecaster, and get into the guitar sounds he used on "Glittering"...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 97: Okay
Ryan & Anji return to discuss their latest single, "Okay," including their songwriting and recording process, listener feedback, album art, video making, etc. They also address the concerns of fans regarding Anji's "Boss Mode" lyrics, share upcoming plans and more in this casual conversation. You...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 96: Boss Mode
Ryan & Anji sit down in Chillcuts studio to share all the news about their latest single, "Boss Mode," including behind the scenes stories about the songwriting, their creative process, album art, promotions, and listener feedback. LINKS: Visit Lovespirals Official Website Buy Boss Mode on…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 95: Will It Ever Be The Same
Ryan & Anji are back in the studio to discuss the brand new VIP Mix of "Will It Ever Be The Same" out now on all streaming platforms, plus Bandcamp, and a lyric visualizer on YouTube. They talk about the artwork, read comments from fans, share online radio stations that are supporting the band…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 94: The Call VIP Mix
Ryan & Anji return to Chillcuts Studio for their first podcast of 2025! The big news is their VIP Mix of "The Call," which they discuss in detail including why they revisted the 2022 track and how it transformed, why they've been releasing new music under the orignal full band name, other mixes…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 93: Used To Be [Last Show of 2024!]
Ryan and Anji return to Chillcuts Studio to discuss their new single, "Used To Be," holiday activities, issues with Apple Music and their new distributor, and more, plus they bring back their classic segment of reading user feedback in this 20 minute video podcast. LINKS: Used To Be on Bandcamp...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 92: New Song, Vinyl Sale, Reissues
Ryan and Anji sit down in the band's studio to share all the latest news, including several archival projects from both band members, getting the podcast back onto audio podcast services, and the upcoming release of a brand new song! The duo even share a clip of "Used to Be" to close out this fun...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 91: Not Myself
Ryan and Anji discuss their new single, "Not Myself," including the creation, inspiration, cover art, and music video. The duo also share stories about their prior single, "Noumenon," the 'Flux' vinyl and popularity of it's first track, releasing singles over albums, updates to the band's…
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Chillin' w Lovespirals 90: Noumenon
Ryan and Anji are back with their first real podcast in 5 years! The musical duo share the latest news including their brand new single "Noumenon" and various release plans, the vinyl reissue of 'Flux' and related LSD merch, a recent remix with Projekt Records, and various music videos dropped...
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Flux Deluxe 25th Anniversary Reissue Feature
Ryan sat down in the Lovespirals studio to tell you all about the brand new Love Spirals Downwards 25th anniversary 'Flux Deluxe Edition' release out now on all digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Beatport, and Juno Downwload. The Bandcamp version includes one extra...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 86: Way Into It
Hey hey -- Chillin' with Lovespirals is back! We have so much news to share this episode, including our new album charting pretty heavily, which is super fun. We get into some detail and background on our song, "Are You Lonely," which has been picking up a little steam online, Ryan gets into the...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 85: Fleetwood Mac
Ryan and Anji revived the band podcast to discuss the recent Fleetwood Mac concert at The Forum. Before the duo launch into their review, they give a bit of background on their original audio podcast and their past history with both The Forum and Fleetwood Mac. Then they give a track by track...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 56: Going to NME 2008
Gmail borked today so we thought we'd get off our butts and record a podcast during the downtime! Ryan and Anji discuss last minute plans to attend PME 2008 in Vegas next weekend, helping their friend Azita to "fix" her Internet, failing a vanity search of "Anji Bee" on the new Cuil search…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 55: So Many Distractions
Ryan and Anji have been distracted by the new iPod 3G, checking out the music apps -- like Pandora, Shazam, and Last.FM, making ringtones, and installing the podcasters iKit to make the podcast easily streamable from your iPod (or iPod Touch). Still, they've continued working on music and share a...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 53: Not All Work
More Lovespirals madness including our camping recap, writing and recording new songs, our concert-filled weekend with the Outernational Tour and Melodyguild at Violaine, our Lovespiralsgasms radio show and live chat, the Lovely Ladies of Ryan Lum podcast, Lovespirals on Coverville #474 podcast,...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 52: Blew Our Wad
The band return after a month's hiatus to catch you up with all the latest news! Ryan uses the MAudio Virtual String Machine on Lovespirals' latest songs, Anji contributes to the CC Asia Band project headed up by MoShang, Soul Whirling Somewhere completes a gorgeous remix of "This Truth," emails...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 51: Remix Contest Top 10
At long last the band have settled on the winner and runner-up of the PLP Remix Contest for This Truth! We know that 60 some producers have been anxiously awaiting our decision since April 1st, and we're sorry to have kept them on pins and needles, but we needed time to sort through and really...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 50: Tax Day Special
The band get a lil bit political and serious for a change of pace on our 50th episode. Topics include taxes and the need for a good accountant, Anji being interviewed by Wired, using the Apgoee Duet for podcasting, a new interview in iProng Magazine, supporting TibetAid, the PLP Lovespirals remix...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 49: Två Starköl
Ryan and Anji return with stories about their new Logic Studio setup vs their old Pro Tools 24 setup, writing and recording new music, entries to Lovespirals PLP Remix Contest, watching Dig! on DVD, Ariel PR takes on our Motherless Child EP, joining thesixtyone.com, Anji competing in the Pod 5…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 48: The "E" Word
Ryan and Anji are back with news and updates including switching from ProTools to Logic and other changes to their recording studio, "This Truth" Remix Contest, launch of a new Lovespirals/The Chillcast Beach Cottage created by Kirsty Hawkshaw in SecondLife, Lovespirals Feature on...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 47: Downer with Lovespirals
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 46: Oh My Garsh It's 2008
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...
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Long Way From Home Interview Feature
In this extended episode, Anji and Ryan play each song from the new Lovespirals album Long Way From Home 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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 45: Exciting Headlines
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 44: Long Way From Home Is Out
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 43: Back from Humboldt
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 42: Podcast Expo Wrap Up
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 41: Satanic Kernel Panic
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,...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 40: The Big Four Oh
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 39: Hate Wave
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 38: Pump It Up
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 37: Gloss & Polish
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 36: John Mayer Review
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 35: Mr. Stoked
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…
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 34: Full On Riot
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 33: Hat Tippin'
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 32: Freaky Wiki
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 31: Morons & Idiots
Ryan and Anji return with tales of woe and delight including fire alarms and idiot neighbors, Kevin Rose's GoDaddySuperbowl 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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 30: Geek Points
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 29: Aurally Seduced
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 28: Booze Cherries
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 27: Super Sweet
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 26: Kernel Panic
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals 25: Halloween
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...
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Chillin' with Lovespirals Episode 24
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!
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Chillin' with Lovespirals Episode 23
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…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Originally launched in June 2005, Chillin' with Lovespirals is one of the first-ever band podcasts, hosted by the innovative husband-and-wife duo, Ryan and Anji Lum. Always ahead of the curve, Ryan, a visionary producer, transitioned from analog to digital recording in the late '90s, while Anji quickly established herself as a pioneer of online music promotion. In 2005, she founded the digital media company, Chillcuts, to maintain control over their music as they foresaw the shift from CDs to digital formats at the turn of the millennium.
In this laid-back and insightful podcast, Ryan and Anji discuss their creative process, the technology behind their music and videos, and how they've stayed relevant in the ever-evolving digital music landscape. With personal stories, inspiring artist discoveries, and behind-the-scenes looks at life as modern-day content creators, Chillin' with Lovespirals offers an engaging mix of creativity, tech talk, and indie music insigh
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Originally launched in June 2005, Chillin' with Lovespirals is one of the first-ever band podcasts, hosted by the innovative husband-and-wife duo, Ryan and Anji Lum. Always ahead of the curve, Ryan, a visionary producer, transitioned from analog to digital recording in the late '90s, while Anji...
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