Interesting Find: 2020 – The Anime?
What is the best way to sum up how the year 2020 has been to us? Let’s turn it into a series of anime openings!
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In Pictures: 90s KPOP Superstars Concert
On October 29th, 2015, Star1 Entertainment held the 90s KPOP Superstars Concert in the Metro Atlanta area at Wild Bill’s nightclub (now known as Atlanta Coliseum) in Duluth, GA, which was a surprise treat (pun intended because of the eve Halloween Eve) for K-Pop fans who live in the Southeast.
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The History of K-Pop @ Metrotham Con Virtual Day 2020
Another panel I worked on in addition to the Gundam Timeline Panel is one that talks about the “History of K-Pop”, which serves as a good introduction to K-Pop for those who are only familiar with BTS or want to learn more about K-pop in general.
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Music Spotlight: Mai Kuraki – Stepping Out
This is a throwback post from December 2012 featuring Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣). This a refresher for me after discovering her album again from a vendor several years ago at MTAC Omega, and getting lost in the Hallyu Wave. Returning to my J-Pop roots, I talked about what makes her different from a similar artist in her genre.
(more…)Music Spotlight: Top 5 Favorite Anime Opening & Ending Themes
I originally drafted this article years ago for the old blog, finding the original .txt file in the depths of my Dropbox folders. This is a list, in no particular order, of my Top 5 Favorite Anime Opening and Ending Theme Songs.
(more…)Music Spotlight: Top 7 SEGA Sound Team Tracks You’ve Never Heard
I’m a sucker for music from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. But I also adore the music from Sega in general. I don’t know what it is about it that makes their music magical. It’s not a 90s thing, but the jonesing for even modern SEGA Sound Team sounds is strong.
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Music Spotlight: Taeyang – Wedding Dress
I normally cover songs you may not have heard of before, or rather ones that fall in the indie spectrum, and general obscurity. But this one is a good candidate for those who have just gotten into K-Pop, especially in the current BTS era (or Generation 3, for a veteran such as myself–more to come in another post). One of my favorite K-Pop groups is BIGBANG, which I’ve followed since their debut, and one of the members is Taeyang who released one of his memorable solo singles of his career in 2009.
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Seoul Searching Chronicles – COEX Aquarium Highlights [Video]
Back in October 2019, I finally got the chance to travel to Seoul, Korea, for my very first out of country trip. While we were there, we checked out the COEX Aquarium, located in the COEX Starfield Mall in Gangnam (also where the SMTOWN store is located at the time). I was told to check this place out, and we weren’t disappointed!
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