Category: Music

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – January 2024

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – January 2024

    I’m back to round out 2023 with a few standout songs on my personal playlists. Overall 2023 was a fun year where I experimented with listening to music through playlists rather than just by listening to albums by artists. Since starting to write for O!susume RadioBeat, I’ve watched a lot more music videos and listened…

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – October 2023

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – October 2023

    This month it seems like I’ve been drawn to new music and collaborations and spin-off projects involving artists that I really like. Sometimes I’m really in the mood to listen to new music and other times I’m really drawn to listen to well-loved music. Do you also have times where you are only seeing new…

  • O!susume – Zwei

    O!susume – Zwei

    I’m back this month to recommend another artist that was again (like last month’s Nakashima Mika) involved in my queer awakening: the female rock band bass/vocal duo called Zwei. There was a period of time where I was finding a lot of the music on YouTube, including the German band called Tokio Hotel, so it…

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – September 2023

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – September 2023

    This month I’ve taken a trip back through my music discography and revisited artists and songs that I was really into around 2017. At the time I was really into indie rock artists with female vocals, which also happens to be one of my very favorite genres of all time. What were you listening to…

  • O!susume – Nakashima Mika

    O!susume – Nakashima Mika

    Nakashima Mika is an actress and singer who rose to fame at the age of 17 in 2001 when she played the main character in the drama “Tainted Love Song” and sang the theme song “Stars” which subsequently landed her first album at number 1 on the Oricon charts. I’ve always thought of her as…

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – August 2023

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – August 2023

    Do you ever feel like your music tastes change with the seasons? My August Mixtape is full of new releases from familiar artists, as well as one gem from Yorushika that I found while re-listening to some of their albums again. Let’s say goodbye to summer together with Erin’s August Mixtape!

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – July 2023

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – July 2023

    This month’s Mixtape has me grooving to some long-held beloved artists that have recently come off of hiatus, and I’m super excited about it! Let me know what you’ve been listening to in July and let me know if any artists you love have recently come off of hiatus!

  • Album Review – cogency by COgeNdshE

    Album Review – cogency by COgeNdshE

    Today is my first post of a new series—introducing album reviews! Sometimes I find an album that is meant to be experienced from start to finish as a full artistic piece. This is often my favorite way to listen to music, so I’m here to talk about one of my favorite albums of all time,…

  • Editor’s Choice: Top Five Anime EDs!

    There are thousands of anime opening songs and visuals out there. But which are objectively the best, according to the opinions of three relative nobodies? Check out what Erin, Nagi and special guest Eve have to say.

  • O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – June 2023

    O!susume – Erin’s Monthly Mixtape – June 2023

    Welcome to Erin’s Monthly Mixtape for June 2023! I love recommending artists every month, but I also listen to a lot of music throughout the month that I’d love to talk about as well! This month I’ve been listening to a lot of singer-songwriters that I think are really rad, as well as some bigger…