NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

Yesterday, I woke up to an announcement in my Instagram feed: a dream concert in Las Vegas later this year in October. Headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore , and featuring over 60 emo and punk bands over the span of one day, this one-day event is quite mind-blowing. Of course there's no way I'll be in Vegas on October 22nd, but this is pretty much my dream concert, other than Cornerstone magically resurrecting. In fact, the concert line-up seems a little too good to be true for many scene fans, leading to online speculation that this is the Emo Fyre festival. I thought it would be fun today to make a playlist for this festival with one song representing each band. I thought it would be fun also to see 1) how many bands I've talked about in my blog post, 2) how many I haven't listened to in years, 3)how many I'm only kind of aware of, and 4)how many I've never heard of. And that's the order we'll proceed. First of all, I'm sad that Las Vegas

Like with the American pop charts, there are numerous acts that don’t chart well on the Korean pop charts. Maybe the group stays together to produce a few low ranking groups, maybe they break up, maybe they fade to obscurity. Groups like this might be remembered when a radio DJ decides to play it on a whim or maybe a situation or meeting an old friend makes the song come to mind. Other groups may have a low charting single, but by luck garner some attention for some reason. Maybe it’s a slow but steady influx of new fans. Maybe it’s the work of a new promotional team. But in the case of the Korean group Exceed in Dreaming, better known as Exid, a viral, fan-made performance video of the group’s follow up song “ Up & Down ,” that helped the song become one of the biggest hits of the year and cemented the groups as a top girl group in South Korea. DON'T EASILY SPEAK OF ME TO OTHERS. DON'T EVEN SAY HOW I WAS. Like “good 4 u,” “Whoz That Girl” is a break up song dripping in sa