I'm sitting at 8853 total artists right now. My goal is to get to 10,000 by the time I leave for Sweden in mid-June. So, please leave suggestions for obscure metal and punk bands. English language is certainly not required. I'm not really into grindcore, but I do like deathcore, so that should give you some direction. It's not going to take me long to type in artists names, so don't be bashful. I promise I won't make fun of you if your band doesn't meet my obscurity level. :)

I do prefer bands that are actually on Last.fm. I…

So, I have tagged several things Swedish or Swedish metal or things such as that in the past. However, now that I'm actually going to travel to the land of my ancestors, I am interested in non-Swedish songs about vikings and Sweden. For instance, I just tagged Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song as "Sweden trip". My travel partner likes to dance, so anything that you think might appease both a metalhead/punk and a dancing queen would be doubly appreciated. I guess I'm thinking of things like The (International) Noise Conspiracy (actually Swedish) and Head Automatica (not Swedish) when I think…

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CNN wasn't the first to ask (of course I beat them to it in my last post), but it didn't take long after the election: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/palin-cannot-even-imagine-2012-bid/. She didn't ask to be VP. I kinda think she'll go back to Alaska quietly. They like her there, and that's just fine.

In other news, I think Lieberman should be kept by Reid in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/lieberman-time-to-come-together/

As long as Lieberman is willing to caucus with Democrats, he is very useful. I don't like Lieberman, but it's not necessarily because of the McCain sponsorship. It's because he…

Yeah, I'm all over the place.

I'm going through a crisis of my different selves: work, music, tech, politics, sports. I've got a tech blog and I think it should stay that way. Lots of political thoughts with the election though. Twitter has sparked a need to share and the 140 char is very limiting.

Anyway, not having another place to put this, I think Sarah Palin could be president in 2016. I think Obama will win now and in 2012 (barring it's not a royal failure and I have no reason to believe it will be). Hillary will be…

This morning I was listening to Biohazard and thinking about albums I've been listening to for a while. Here's 10 albums that have stayed with me from listening to Rapcore/Nu-metal in high school to the hardcore punk and folk metal that frequents my playlist now. There's a sad lack of CC/open music in the list. Hopefully one day that changes! Now, there are plenty of songs that are still good, but complete albums are much harder to come by! Mind you, this would be easy pre-2001 albums. There'd be some Misfits and Minor Threat more than…

I don't see how to add new events under the new layout. Can someone help me?

I posted a few weeks ago about good venues in Madison and got no responses. What about good shows? Any punk or metal bands coming around?

So, it is looking ever more likely that I'll be moving to Madison, WI. Can anybody tell me where to see some good punk, hardcore or metal up that way?

Thu 8 May – The Casualties, Krum Bums, Antagonizers, No Revolution

I actually just got to see The Casualties. They were good, but there weren't enough people there for a real pit. People stage diving with too few people to catch them was definitely a highlight. :)