Music Highlights 2.8.21

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+ News

  • SXSW announced the lineup for their digital experience from March 16-20, which includes a personal favorite: Say Sue Me.

  • The kdrama, Hotel Del Luna, will be getting a musical in 2022. So I have until then to save up money to visit and watch.

  • The visual kei rock group, The GazettE, announced a new album for May. A digital single will be out in March.

  • Radwimps will be releasing an album dedicated to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster areas with profits going to the Japan Red Cross Society and local government.

+ Releases and Finds

-Yorushika released their mini-album, Creation. At this point I’m just mad at you if you haven’t attempted to listen to their great music yet.

-Dreamcatcher also released their mini-album, Road to Utopia, and while it’s not my favorite ‘Odd Eye’ has been growing on me more.

-I already talked about Leaves Black last post, but they put out an official music video for their song, ‘Farewell My Books’.

-DRC’s ‘Dot Dot Dot’ is really good.

-So I think it should be fairly obvious that while I like kpop, and have some kpop groups and some are my favorite artists of all time, I don’t actually connect with most new releases. It’s always a plus for me to find a new song or group to get into. Enter Purple Kiss with ‘Can We Talk Again’.

-In new to me world: I randomly got suggested this song by the rock band DANGGISIO and really really like them.

-Awesome City Club came out with a new song.

-Se So Neon can really do not a lot of wrong, especially with a lead singer like So Yoon.

-Some other songs I enjoyed include The Poles ‘Good Morning Sunshine’, Swan’s ‘Visualizer’, and CIX’s ‘Young’.

+ Upcoming

Sekai No Owari best hits album, 2010-2019 (10)
Zutomayo 2nd full album, ぐされ (10)
Chungha 1st full album, Querencia (15)
Lucy single, ‘Inside’ (16)
indigo la End album, Yako Himitsu (17)
TRI.BE debut, ‘TRI’ (17)
Kingdom debut mini album, History Of Kingdom : PartⅠ. Arthur (18)

+ Album Spotlight
If you are into punk, then you have to be listening to Drinking Boys and Girls Choir. I first found them towards the beginning of last year/end of the previous year. Highly recommend checking out some of their live concerts.

Check out the last highlights post here.

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