Popular band songs that hype up cultural and school festivals & recommended latest hit songs
For members of the light music club or anyone who plays an instrument, the school festival is the perfect chance to perform live at school!
Since you’ve got a rare stage, you want to look cool and hype up the crowd, right?
But that’s where song selection becomes a dilemma.
You don’t want to overlap with other bands, but you still want to play popular songs that can get the whole venue pumped!
I’m sure many of you feel that way.
So in this article, we’ll introduce plenty of band songs recommended for school festivals.
They’re all super cool tracks, so use this as a reference and put on the best performance possible!
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Popular band songs that get everyone hyped at cultural and school festivals & recommended latest hit songs (91–100)
Curtain callYuuri
A high-velocity rock tune where doubt, inner conflict, and hope collide.
Yuuri’s heartfelt vocals and the sweeping melody strike straight to the heart.
It carries a message that resonates: people struggling with life, unable to understand each other—maybe, if they’d met in a different place, they could have connected.
Released as a digital single in July 2024, this track was chosen as the opening theme for Cour 2 of Season 7 of the TV anime My Hero Academia.
It’s a wonderful anthem that stirs the courage to step toward a hope-filled future!
NanahitsujiShinario Aato
Perhaps many of you discovered them alongside KANA-BOON? Here’s a track from Scenarioart, now a band that represents the Kansai scene.
The explosive power of the chorus and their performance skills are, in a word, outstanding.
The original features twin vocals—guitar-vocal and drum-vocal—but you could arrange it for a single lead vocal or even a bass vocalist and it would work well.
Kimisidai TrainONE OK ROCK
Now a four-piece rock band that Japan can proudly present to the world and that is active overseas, ONE OK ROCK.
“Kimisidai Ressha” (Kimisidai Train), which closes out their fifth album Zankyō Reference, fires you up with its message about living fully in the present—not in the past or the future.
With lots of tight hits, every part needs crisp, articulate playing or the ensemble won’t lock in, so be sure to practice in sync during band rehearsals.
Its straight-up rock melodies and sound will pump you up—making it a perfect rock tune for a school festival stage.
I’ll call your name.SUPER BEAVER
“Calling Your Name” is also well-loved as the theme song for the film Tokyo Revengers.
It’s an original track written by the rock band SUPER BEAVER, inspired by the movie’s story.
The song portrays the joy of meeting a friend and delves deeper into what friendship truly means.
Listen while paying attention to the answer it suggests.
Combined with the passionate vocals of Ryota Shibuya, it’s sure to stir your heart.
It’s an intense rock tune, so it’s also perfect for when you want to get pumped up.
winding roadNovelbright
There are always trials along the path of life, and the staircase to adulthood is lined with thorns.
Novelbright expresses the heart that wavers between pure hopes and reality with warm vocals that gently embrace those feelings.
This work is the theme song for the TV Tokyo drama “Courtroom Dragon,” airing in January 2025.
Its refreshing, grand melody is sure to encourage young people as they move step by step toward their dreams.
It’s a song I wholeheartedly recommend as a companion to memories of youth—growing together while lifting each other up, and the friendships that deepen while preparing for school culture festivals.
Linda LindaTHE BLUE HEARTS
This is the major debut single by the legendary punk rock band THE BLUE HEARTS, centered around vocalist Hiroto Kōmoto and guitarist Masatoshi Mashima, who are still active today with The Cro-Magnons.
Written and composed by Hiroto Kōmoto, who has publicly said he wanted to create a song that would make people think, “This is insane!”, it’s a standout rock number featuring lyrics that could be called philosophical and a catchy, high-energy sound.
Although it was released in 1987, it’s still performed by many bands today, making it a perfect song to unite with the audience and get everyone hyped at school and cultural festivals.
Shunkan SentimentalSCANDAL
A song by SCANDAL, a four-member girls’ rock band whose members were mostly high school students at the time of their debut.
When the song was released, they performed in school uniforms, making it a perfect number to play at a school festival.
It’s also well-known thanks to being used as an ending theme for the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, and from a performance standpoint it’s easy to cover since the guitar parts are mainly played with power chords.
With its sense of speed, it’s a sure-fire number to get the crowd going at a school festival.