About « appears

About

Music. I listen to it. A lot. And than I write about it because I also enjoy redundancy/dancing about architecture.

This website is really just a fancy shmancy revival of my old music reviewing web site which ran for a few short years beginning in 2003. Since then, I have unfortunately, lost all of the old reviews I wrote. The few articles I have managed to salvage are in the archives, for those interested.

This blog existed at several locations, most recently appears.dx-t.net, where it enjoyed a fairly nice run for 1.5 years before my hosting went apeshit in October ‘07 and deleted everything/canceled hosting without any notification. I took the remainder of the year off to re-evaluate and decided that I simply could not live without this piece of Internet junk and missed rambling about how awful Ayumi’s new albums are (there just isn’t enough outlet for that sort of thing in the real world). So lo and behold; version 3.0 (or maybe 4.0, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve switched hosting), now at appears.wordpress.com.

I love music and I love writing so I decided to merge those two together to create a web site that I hope will introduce to people to some of the music I love, some of the music I like, and some of the music I can’t be bothered with. The music is for sampling purposes; if you like it, please support the artist and buy the albums/singles.

Here is how this web site is broken down:

Reviews: Reviews are posted sporadically. I try to do the reviews within a month of an album or single’s release.

Artist spotlights: Again, posted sporadically. Any band/artist I currently find myself newly obsessed with will warrant a post with information on them/their music, along with a few song samples from a variety of things they have released (note: I rarely do these anymore; most of the “new” artists I get into have been around for decades).

Friday night shuffle: Posted every few Fridays, as the title would suggest. I put my iRiver on shuffle and post the first five songs that come up, even if they might be embarassing or I have no clue how it got there. Usually I will, and I’ll write a few words about the song. I do this because I have so much music in here, I doubt I will ever get around to writing about it all, and this will allow you to sample a variety of music styles if you don’t like what I’ve been posting in the reviews. Songs only stay up until the next shuffle; get them while you can (note: This section has been discontinued, though it may resurface as a weekly link dump for cool music-related writing in the future).

Friday night Oricon: A sporadic look at the weekly Oricon singles chart.

Other: I post other stuff, too, sometimes. Updates on the site, releases I’m looking forward to, promotional video mockery, articles about the current state of music or something I’m angry/happy about. You know…usual music blogging stuff.

Most of my writing focuses on music trends in East Asia and North America/Europe, though I do listen to and enjoy music from other countries as well. The only reason I’m not writing in length about some obscure band from Finland is because I’m only one girl with two hands and probably three minutes of your attention span at any given moment, and if that’s all of I’ve got, I want to make sure you’re getting something good, or at least entertaining.

To contact me, send E-mail to appearsmusic[at]gmail[dot]com.