I tried and failed years ago to get into Public Image Limited. Well, I tried again by watching an old Rockpalast performance from 1983 on YouTube. It consisted of a half-hour soundcheck, then an interview that John Lydon abruptly ended, and then the concert. Really amazing and incredible, the attitude those guys had.

The Spanish retro-80s thrash metal band Holycide has a new record out, Fist To Face, on the Xtreem Music label. The band's video for the track "Empty Cyber Life" is well done! This is a rare thing in the music video world.

I finished Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson and Jon Klingberg. Appropriately I picked it up at an author talk at the Swedish Embassy. Out on Feral House, it's a good book.