As much as I love talking about .NET and general purpose programming, that can only score you so many cool points. So besides geek-talk, what other topic could I go on about all day long? Music! So, I’ve decided to start a new feature called the International List of Awesome Bands (or ILab for short. Note the geek reference). Every Friday I will post a new band to the list and have a brief discussion about them. For the inaugural post, I put together a list of 50 bands from around the world that I love, making sure to cover the countries I get visitors from the most (everyone gets represented!) This isn’t meant to list the top bands of the year, or top bands ever, it’s just random bands that I appreciate. There are a lot of great bands missing from the list. Chances are if you can recognize a band missing from the list, I won’t be adding it. ILab’s primary purpose is to enumerate little-known bands that I’ve known over the years or worked with in one fashion or another, or just discovered out of the blue.
The ILab directory can always be found on the right navigation list for reference purposes. All new bands will be posted to that page.
If you have some cool international bands you think are great, let me know, and I’ll feature them in my weekly post. The only rules are they have to be good (obviously) and they have to be either unsigned or on an independent record label. If they’re really awesome I’ll even add them to ILab 
joncart at microsoft dot com
