Song of the Week! 10 October 2026

Another fresh Pop Tap Beat exclusive, incoming! Curiously enough, this is also the second time that the game's tracklist is graced with another licensed tune to be infamously linked with legal hurdles...

Song of the Week! 3 October 2026

Well, time to catch up with the lost Ura feature time... so while we're at it,, let's giddy-up with a triple treat! As you're about to see, it's the only way for these ones...

Song of the Week! 26 September 2026

Unfortunately, I'll have to forgo the unwritten 'monthly Ura feature' just this once, just to have a themed feature around something that isn't as common to note on our grounds, across Japanese calendar-related scheduling...

Song of the Week! 19 September 2026

For an extra bit of flair in this year's Tatsujin Ranking Dojo, each of the concealed tunes is preceeded by a unique fullscreen animation, denoting their fierce natural force before the title reveal.

The free-associative-thinker in me is then brought to ask myself: can I find three (surely easier) tunes to match the ones/themes of these unique segways? Here are my two cents on the matter.

Song of the Week! 12 September 2026

It's Ranking Dojo update day and while we're cooking up the First Fideo Portal with today's fiends, here's what lied at the end of this year's 10-Dan course. Can't talk about one of those without the other, after all!

Song of the Week! 5 September 2026

Coming up today is quite the odd-duck piece of music to come from the Mainland China's soil...

Song of the Week! 29 August 2026

Not every bloodsucking creature in folklore bears Romanian connections, just as today's remixed Namco Original can attest on arcades! It's from a country with quite the strong connection for originals in this series for quite a while.

Song of the Week! 22 August 2026

Indeed, this happened at long last. With yesterday's tweet on the just-released Weekend Warrior, the official Taiko Team crew is hogging a bit of the familiar Song of the Week spotlight, not only with a Saturday song release on arcade grounds, but with an accompaning written trivia piece on the song's whereabouts (from its remixing author, no less)! 

It's not going to be an easy feat to match the effort, so how about this: I'll try coming up with a "sister feature" of sorts to link the just-released, just-analized song to something even-slightly-tangentially-related things about either the original, the remix or both (I mean this is not the first or the 12th time I've done something like this at the 11th hour before), so let's get this ball rolling!

Song of the Week! 15 August 2025

In the middle of August, the heated debut of one tenacious composer is about to be brought up on these shores... 

Song of the Week! 8 August 2026

Earlier in this ending week, this year's edition of the Taiko no Tatsujin music recruitment contest has seen the public reveal of all the eligible contest entries! I sure might have something suitable for the same orbit, for today...

Song of the Week! 1 August 2026

Today, about 150 original songs across the more modern Taiko no Tatsujin arcade generations have been simultaneously released on several music streaming servers in three separate collections, as we've also reported earlier today on our own X page.

Most of the tracks on display hail from the 3rd-generations and have already seen an OST physical release via 2018's eight-sountrack project published by City Connection, with a small handful of tunes making their first outing this way. Meet one of those today!

Song of the Week! 25 July 2026

This ending month's Ura Oni feature is about yet another tune that has seen quite the time lapse between its console debut and its first arcade venue... for a Namco Original, of all things!

Song of the Week! 18 July 2026

As a pre-emptive disclaimer, the subjects of today's weekly feature have not been influenced by the writer's latest gaming distraction to nover.

Nuh-uh.

Pinky-swear.

Song of the Week! 11 July 2026

Well, this is awkward... Literally everything happens on the Taiko side in one day, the one day I'm outta town to snatch some sun. Which can only mean: emergency future-sight feature!

Song of the Week! 4 July 2026

Happy 4th of July! ... again!... for the third time!

Song of the Week! 27 June 2026

We're closing this June together with a couple of consecutively-introduced Summer Weekend Warriors, from yesteryears...

Song of the Week! 20 June 2026

With the last day of Spring at hand, it's time for us to crank up a gear... quite literally, as you're about to hear!

Song of the Week! 13 June 2026

In a couple of days, the latest Taiko no Tatsujin music recruitment contest will open its gates for contestants' input. Shall we greet it with another contest-prepped tune from the (near) past?

Song of the Week! 6 June 2026

Wait a minute... the 6th day in the 6th month of 2026... could this be the time for a satanic feature???

Song of the Week! 30 May 2026

It appears we still have to fill the unspoken "1 Ura feature per month" quota (no, the Dark DonChare stuff doesn't count), so a shocking month finisher is in order!