Biopanda

Down with this as usual. All of these latest singles have been 100% solid as hell.

Aww man :< Mizuki was cool

Just got in my latest PureSound order FULL EFFECT' - By may call it. DecoLa Hopping x ワン★スター(ONE★STAR) - デコレーション★スター (live-limited coupling cover CD, been waiting for years to finally hear this ;w; ) THE BLACK SWAN - MIRROR,MIRROR スナフキン(SNUFKIN) - HELL'S CARNIVAL Also this happened I guess...

That's not at all going to get confusing with the V.A. album "Meteoric Swarm" that planet CHILD released a few years ago

Luckily they have a pretty big fanbase in Japan, at least. When I went to see them live during Hayato's hiatus(when they were playing with backtracked vocals), it was at an event with ALSDEAD, アンド, †яi￠к and some others. Even given all those bands, DJ easily had over twice as many people in the crowd to see them when it was their turn to play.

I'm traveling to Chicago for this weekend... does that count?

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Ahh, I guess that's a legitimate reason then. Best of luck to him with his recovery in that case.

Legit.

Wat? The only other Japanese band I can find with the name UROBOROS is some tiny no-name band from Oita(in the middle of nowhere) that released a total of like 1 live-distributed CD with 0 last.fm listeners then disbanded. I'm not really sure that counts in this case...

As far as I knew, his throat was better? I know he took a 1-2 year hiatus from singing due to it and thought he had throat surgery during that time, unless they've stated that as the reason for disbanding.

To be fair, the prices that I pay to ship things internationally are about the same prices as I pay to ship things here from Japan, so I don't think it's ever going to be reasonable when oceans are involved :/ As for your package, I'm PMing you the label # now. It looks like your package was caught up in the same weird issue as zuka's, being stuck here for a long while before finally leaving Albuquerque. I'm going to try and talk with the post office and see if I can find out why that was happening so that it hopefully won't happen in the future.

Unfortunately not. As it is, first-class international has never actually had tracking as a feature, as opposed to priority international which has guaranteed tracking. The number that I give people is just the label number, which may or may not work, but shouldn't really be considered a tracking #. I've looked into other options(fedex, UPS, etc) but as it stands first-class through USPS is the cheapest option for sending things internationally by a huge margin.

Also: can everyone who hasn't received their rips yet please send me a PM? I lost the list that I had of what was sent, so I just want to make sure that everyone gets their rips.

I've got a few more errands to run today, but I'll be responding to your PM today

I saw the tracking for that and I'm not really sure why it was stuck here in Albuquerque for so long. About the most I can do is just blame it on the postal service here being pretty bad :/ The way that it was previously was that with first-class, you could track it up until it left the US and at that point it was up to the receiving country to scan it and update the tracking on their side if they wanted to(not all countries do). From how I understand it is now, first-class packages going internationally will no longer have tracking up to the US border, though they may still be scanned by the postal service in your country. I have no idea WHY they made this change and the people I talked to at the post office were just as clueless.

What was your name in the stream? I should be able to pull up any tracking info, though if your package was sent first-class then tracking info may or may not be available due to recent changes in the USPS system(they can no longer scan international packages for tracking, from what I was told).

Is ROCKSTAR going to be the next big indies VK "superlabel"? After UNDERCODE went under, there's kinda been a void in the scene left in it's place. Nowadays it seems like there's barely any indies VK labels that have more than 2-3 bands on them(with the exception of like... PCM and SPEEDDISK/death-trap). Either way, the line-up of bands they've got seems pretty ballin' so I'm definitely looking forward to what they've got in store.

A piece of VK history just died with this news All in all though, 19 years is pretty fucking amazing for a VK band to be active.

I just double-checked everything and it doesn't seem that you ever paid the shipping invoice. We sent the shipping invoice on June 3rd, but the only payments from you were for the items themselves. If you'd like, we can re-send the invoice. Other than that, your package is just waiting to have a label slapped on it at the moment and it can be dropped off

I think I'm all out of Yayoi-related things, but let me check since he was in like a billion bands.