You might or might not be aware how seriously i’m addicted to last.fm. Actually i’m rather addicted to music and i love statistics, so last.fm is just the perfect place for me. No surprise it’s always open in a browser tab and it’s among the top visited sites in all my browsers. However, i’m not subscribed, because the only reason i could imagine doing that is the Radio feature, but the times i tried it, it simply didn’t work so well. After 2-3 songs suddenly something totally out-of-place would pop up and i’d rather close it and return to my own library.

But now it’s all changed with seeing one single tweet. Last.fm announced the launch of their new service called Discover. It claimed that it’ll help me find me new favorite artist–and truth be told, it has the best of chance to do so. Unlike the Radio, i haven’t seen anything here indicating a limit on songs i can listen for free, and i definitely do love discovering new and/or underground bands. It works based on tags, so there might be some songs that seem out of place, but then i can just click “something different” to find something more to my taste or “more like this” if i liked something.

So, in about two weeks, we’ll have the yearly autumn camp of the university light music club. I can’t wait. It was a lot of fun last year, and this year it’s gonna be even more fun. Last year i only had one band and we practiced plenty beforehand, so while everyone else were practicing in the camp, i was bored, looking for people to play pool with. This year i have two bands, i’ll have the honor of singing some Marilyn Manson songs (the Fight Song and one more, yet undecided) and to play bass-vocals for a Hi-Standard copy band. This latter is of course more challenging, as ever since the failure of our Sex Pistols band last autumn (about a week after i bought my bass) i never tried singing while playing. So far i think i can do it, but it’ll need plenty of practicing.

Then of course once the camp is over, we’ll be facing the auditions for the autumn live, where again i’ll have to do my best if i want to get on stage. No bands are decided yet, but most probably we’ll come up with stuff in the camp. I’d love to play the guitar again too, but chances are that’s not gonna happen. If i could get to do the vocals for some nice grunting metal like Heaven Shall Burn, Machine Head or Slipknot, that would be outright awesome. Problem is there’s hardly any drummer in the club who can pull off songs with twin bass.

We’ll see. (In the meanwhile, i’m nearing 150 thousand scrobbles on last.fm.)

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You’re kidding me, right? Right? Right?!

As the Angry Metal Guy points out, Riotology by Artas might not be the most original piece of music in any way, it’s still good. You won’t hear anything that In Flames or Killswitch Engage or anything close to those lines haven’t done before, but the solution to that is simple: don’t expect anything original. Mediafada, etc.