How do I begin?

This is the commencement of something I've been thinking of creating for a while now. After spending a short time living in Mexico in 2013, I began to delve into spanish speaking music from not only México but all over Latin America. By following links and scouring the internet, I started to discover bands from México, Perú and Chile, and later on Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela. I currently live (temporarily) in Buenos Aires, and thus have had the wonderful opportunity to see and meet some of the bands that I discovered, discover even more music and form a part of the scene, even if it may be for a very short time.

A few notes:

1) I was originally planning on posting in both English and Spanish, but I feel that this would be just incredibly time consuming. My target audience is mostly English speaking, since my intention with this is to shed light on scenes that are mostly unknown in the U.S. and elsewhere due to political and linguistic barriers. What's more, the google translate function at the top right of the page is surprisingly not as awful as I expected it to be - you'll at least get the idea of what I'm saying.

2) I have no knowledge of what's going on in Brazil. Someone feel free to help me out here. I don't speak Portuguese and I keep myself busy with the hispanic side of America enough. There is a goldmine to discover there, I'm sure of it. Feel free to send stuff to me, or start your own blog/what you feel is appropriate!

3) So far I've found little to nothing within the realm of what interests me musically from Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay or Ecuador, nor from anywhere in Central America, so if anyone knows of anything, please send it my way (email at the right).

4) I'm not a music nerd (at least not yet), so bear with me as I pretend to know how to classify genres and influences and describe styles.

5) This blog is inspired by and embarrassingly modeled after a really impressive blog made by a really impressive guy and good friend. If you're interested in Japanese screamo/emo/hardcore you can check it out here!

Ok, enough shit, I'll be posting real stuff from now on.

-Brian // United Americas