First of all...

I'd like to say I'm no specialist in music, in any way.

My name is Kimberly, I'm in High School studying in Brazil, while also on my second year of learning electric guitar. I've had and still have many blogs and writing places to get out what I want to talk about, but I've recently had an idea of writing about my inspirations and idols in music, the songs I like, music in general and new bands and groups I'm getting into. My other blogs are mostly personal, and even if this one will still contain my personal opinion on the subjects mentioned, I won't want to mix it with all other posts of what is going on in other parts of my life.

People tend to say I have a musical taste that is very mixed and has lots of variety, I don't know how accurate that is given the incredible ammount of genres and sub-genres out there and each band's particular style that can change in itself,  from a mixture of a few styles into one solid one, or into getting even more variety or even creating a new one.

Most of the music I listen to, for many reasons, ranges from the 1950s to the 1990s. I don't mean to say there aren't good new bands out there, I listen to many of those, too, they are just hard to find for little divulgation of the media.

Here in Brazil, it's hard to find good new music unless you hang out around any club that's willing to, once in a while, playing songs that aren't on the radio all the time since here all we have playing is international industrial pop, rap (which I have nothing against, and actually listen to some, the problem is that most rappers nowadays don't make lyrics that are worth listening to, and instead write about how much money they have, how many girls they fucked...), and one or two bands that pop up for a year or two and then disappear, aside from samba and other kinds that are popular here. And I hate to admit it - but my mother doesn't let me go out like that, yet.

Once in a while, I do see quality bands show up around the town, mostly formed by people still in school and experimenting around with their instruments, writing a few songs and playing one or two gigs, then disbanding. A few cover bands for artists such as Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Megadeth also show up that way. Still, there is almost no way to send out the news of these bands since the few publications we have in this down - which is a small town - have no interest in the kind of music they play, and rather focus on something like "Oh my god, Justin Bieber cut his hair" rather than new, local music.

Well, this has become long enough for the introduction. I hope anyone who reads this blog will enjoy it, and remember, I don't intend to seem like a professional writer or an expert in the subject, but simply want to get my opinions out there and maybe other people will like to talk about it.

-Kimberly