Shinya Mizoguchi used to loathe the start of the week. "Everybody hates Monday. It's not a positive day of the week," he says via Skype from his home in Los Angeles. His perspective changed over the past year, however, when he quit his job as a project manager at a tech company to focus solely on his musical endeavors as starRo.

Now, he sees the positives of Monday, so much so that his first full-length album is named after it.

"People are motivated, and it's easy to get a hold of people," he says. "That's when things start rolling."