Since January of 2006, listeners have enjoyed the best of independent Chillout music on The Chillcast with Anji Bee, a smooth and sophisticated mix of Electronica, Jazz, Soul, and World Music. The show actually traces its roots back to the early part of the decade, and Anji’s Live365 stations The Lovely Ladies of Electronica, and Chillcuts Radio (which can still be heard by premium members there). In addition to the smoothest music on the planet, The Chillcast with Anji Bee features artist interviews and other special segments, extended DJ mixes and even occasional CD giveaway contests. It’s been nominated twice as best music podcast in the People’s Choice Podcast Awards, and was recently selected as one of Cyber PR’s Top 100 picks for the Indie Maximum Exposure List.

The great tunes come with great offers for her listeners too. Since March of 2006, The Chillcast with Anji Bee has been offering savings to listeners on domain names, website hosting and more with promo codes for GoDaddy.com through her affiliation with the MEVIO Network. According to Anji, the relationship has been a positive one. “GoDaddy has been supporting me practically since I launched The Chillcast and I just love them to death.” Anji notes that she uses GoDaddy for all of her own websites because of their low prices and friendly customer service. In addition to GoDaddy, she now offers more than half a dozen other opportunities for savings on The Chillcast and her other productions (Chillin’ With Lovespirals and Chillcast Video Edition).

Anji has been involved with music from an early age, and with her partner, Ryan Lum, has been part of the groundbreaking group Lovespirals for a decade now. The duo have produced 3 full-length albums, and their fourth, Future Past, is nearly ready for release. You can learn more about the album on the latest episode of Chillin’ With Lovespirals.

Anji Bee’s creative pace is truly astounding, contributing guest vocals on other artists’ albums, collaborating with other podcasters for their productions, producing remixes, and all the while keeping up with her own podcast productions and writing and recording with Lovespirals. When we asked how she does it all, she said “Sometimes I wonder myself. I think the key is being obsessed, really. Music is basically my life; it’s my passion and reason for being. And I’m a perfectionist. Add that to my inherited workaholic ethic, and voila!”

We also asked Anji what she found most challenging about taking a successful audio program and adapting it to video. “Probably the fact that I couldn’t attain the same high level of quality with video, being as that I was completely new to it and didn’t have any gear. I was basically inpsired to do video when I got my first iMac with the iSight camera. Lighting is always very tricky and I still feel that there are improvements that could be made in that regard, but the viewers don’t seem to mind, so I try not to worry about it too much. Also, believe it or not, I’m actually a little camera shy. I had a hard time being natural on video at first. I think I’ve grown quite a bit, in that department.”

When asked how involvement with the promotional opportunities through MEVIO have impacted her productions and career, Anji responded. “I’ve had some really interesting and fun opportunities come up with advertisers through Mevio. One of the first ones that comes to mind is the Earthlink campaign, where people were encouraged to come up with their own ads. I was thrilled to be chosen as one of the winners. Then there was the podcast I created for Tylenol PM, called Unwind. That was really popular; in fact I still have people asking me when I’ll bring that show back!”

Anji’s passion for music and her unique style and attitude have made her a favorite with peers and fans alike. We’ll continue to look for more great things from Anji in the years to come.

Looking for some cool gear featuring your favorite music artists? Or maybe you’re a music artist yourself and you’d like to offer custom items for your fans to purchase. Zazzle.com is the place to go, with their Music Merchandise department.

Zazzle offers customizable music t-shirts, posters, buttons and more – with thousands of classic and exclusive designs, and thousands of combinations of colors, sizes and options from which to choose. You can add your own text and images to make each product uniquely yours.

They’re also the official merchandise provider for MySpace, and offer great merchandise from your favorite featured artists such as Jason Mraz, Dream Theater, The B52s, Fergie, Lil Jon, Motley Crue and dozens more.

You don’t have to stop with customizing stock items either. Why not create your own? Your imagination is the only limit to what you can create at Zazzle. Their amazing Web interface takes you through the process step by step, as you choose the item, add images and text, etc. You’ll end up with a one-of-a-kind item that reflects your own ideas and personality. Or, if you’d like to make your creation available to others, Zazzle makes that easy as well. You can even earn money on your creations by setting the markup yourself.

Setting up your store on Zazzle is absolutely free of charge, and you won’t have money tied up in inventory either, since every item is made to order just before it’s shipped. These are retail quality items too – no decals or iron-ons. With Zazzle you can also put a Merch Booth on your MySpace profile and your website. It’s completely free and totally non-exclusive.

So rock on, music lovers, and be sure to use our Zazzle Coupon at checkout for savings of 10% on your order of $50 or more, or a full 12% on orders of $75 or more. Our coupon is good on any of the 10 billion products already available on Zazzle, as well as the ones you may create yourself.

Top 10 albums this week by download

1.

I Love Rock N’ Roll Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Alternative, Rock

2.

Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Contemporary Country

3.

Live In Concert – Greatest Hits And More! The Smithereens

4.

All I Feel Ray J R&B

5.

Verbs Au Indie Pop

6.

Into the Trees Sybris Indie Rock

7.

The Hann-Byrd EP Oxford Collapse Alternative, Indie Rock

8.

Bad Reputation Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Rock

9.

Young Team Mogwai Alternative

10.

Evolution Nektar Progressive Rock

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Top Albums | Top Artists | Top Labels | Top Composers ]]> http://offers.mevio.com/offerblog/emusic-album-and-artist-charts-june-6/feed/ 2 http://offers.mevio.com/offerblog/bloc-party/ http://offers.mevio.com/offerblog/bloc-party/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 16:27:49 +0000 admin http://meviooffers.com/offerblog/?p=23 English Indie rock band Bloc Party hit the scene in 1998. The band is composed of Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong. Bloc Party’s own style of guitar rock compares to such bands as The Cure, Joy Division, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pixies. The band has released two studio albums and fourteen singles which have attributed to their popularity.

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Their first studio album, Silent Alarm, was released in 2005, receiving widespread acclaim. Silent Alarm reached #3 in the UK Albums Chart and was voted the 2005 NME Album of the Year. Two years later, Bloc Party released A Weekend in the City. The album entered the UK Album Chart at #2 and in the US at #12.

Bloc Party’s single “Banquet”, video below, reached #13 in NME’s Top 50 singles of 2005. “Banquet” is Bloc Party’s signature song – the best thing in the band’s early career. Kele’s vocals accompanied with a jumpy bass and drums provides a mixture of post-punk, British pop that’s sure to have you dancing to the beat!

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