[delayed post] Midweek New Music Roundup :: March 5th - 12th

[hitokage]

I know, I was doing so well last week and then this week ... well.... It's been a week all right. But I'm here with over 60 new tracks for your listening enjoyment, with a mix of everything from hiphop to dance rock to trot to R&B and jazz. With comebacks from BTOB to XG, Hoshi x Woozi to VANDO, 10cm to W24, AleXa to Xiumin, plus debuts from GENBLUE, SUNNYKEY, and Yeji of ITZY. Whether your genre of choice is dance or hiphop, rock or trot, jazz or R&B, odds are you'll find something to enjoy here, so grab yourself a drink and/or your favorite snack and give the list a browse.

Banner artist slot this week got split partly to see if I could pull it off and mostly because I was struggling to really narrow things down, so we have both Odetari with Hongjoong of ATEEZ and then Seventeen's Hoshi x Woozi. Additional picks this week from me go to BTOB, NTX, SF9, and ONEWE. And AleXa. And Seulgi. Okay, I'll stop.... 😆

note 1: despite the delay in posting, this listing only covers the span from March 5th to 12th, cutting off at roughly 1am ET (2pm Korean time).
note 2: The surrealism tag popped up a lot this week - we're apparently in the middle of a trend - and just how surreal things got varied a good bit from vid to vid. NEWBEAT, for example, went a lot further into the weird than, say, Xiumin, but I don't really have a good way of conveying levels of weird at this stage. I'm thinking about how I might scale things better in the future if this keeps up (probably something like the more specific elements when using the supernatural tag), but in the meantime, just ... use your best judgment as best you can, I guess? As far as I remember, NEWBEAT was the most surreal offering out of everyone this week.

( Releases for the week of March 5th - 12th )

key:
* content warning - see item below for specific warnings
+ comes with "disappearing" hardcoded subs

The Mea Culpa section is temporarily empty. We'll see how long that lasts....

note 3: to keep artists' work together, despite how they're listed above, releases from a single artist/team (Jennie, sunoa x Ben Bliss, Blue Mangtto) have been pulled back together in the links below to make them easier to find.

( the links with my limited commentary )

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