For news regarding mostly Cure Rock Radio and Tainted Reality(if there are other stations, feel free to post about them
).
Tainted Reality news!!! Now that Tekkoshocon VIII is over, Tainted Reality will be returning to their regular broadcasting schedule, which means that Candy COated Black Dream will be on today at 20:00(8 pm), Ephemeral Ascenscion will be on tomorrow at the same time, the request show will be at the same time on Thursday, at that time on Friday will be the Tainted Reality Talk Show, Saturday will be Incognito, and I'm not sure how things are looking for Kiwamu-san's Darkest Labyrinth show on Sundays, but that should also be on at the same time on Sundays.
Break down of the shows for those who don't already know: Candy Coated Black Dream has mostly JRock, Ephemeral Ascension plays JGoth as well as other types of goth music not from Japan, Tainted Reality Request show plays whatever the people ask for as long as it's Japanese(you can request by adding TRrequest to AIM, and I don't know if they are still using Skype, but their name which is also TRrequest is still in my contact list there), the Talk Show.... do I need to elaborate? XD, Incognito is where you can hear Japanese bands you've probably never heard of(and if you have any band suggestions for Incognito, you can put it up at the forum, or you can send them to Roger via
[email protected]), and Kiwamu-san's Darkest Labyrinth show is where he plays music from bands signed on to his Darkest Labyrinth label.
You can listen to Tainted Reality via the radio at
Check out the new Tainted Reality coming soon, or listen AND watch via
taintedreality - TaintedReality Live - blogTV(I suggest using Firefox for BlogTV, because it acts kind of funky if you use Windows Explorer...).
For the people wanting to subscribe to Cure magazine, you can now do so through
Cure Media USA 24/7 Pure J-ROCK(you can also request songs by adding
[email protected], or by the chat that is available at the site; request time starts at around 3pm or 4 pm depending on what Shion is doing, and usually ends at either 10pm or 11pm eastern). You can subscribe for six months for $102, or for a year for $192. Um, price explanation time for the people ready to bemoan it:
Basically, the yen is worth more than the dollar, and the price includes the cost of importing it as well as the shipping and handling. Both subscriptions include whatever extra stuff Cure puts into it, such as CDs and/or posters(because now the magazine will include CDs and may have posters put into them), however, the one year subscription also includes an extra photo that will be individually signed by the cover artist(s).
What I was told was that the band will pick a photo that was taken for the cover(since obviously many pictures are taken before they actually pick the one they will use for the cover), and the photo will be copied for everybody, but the copies will be signed individually(so the autograph will be real).