Music Social Graphs: Or, How to Get From A Perfect Circle to Wilco in just a couple steps.

The space in my brain that otherwise could have held football stats or state names holds band trivia instead. My obsession with knowing the side projects, early recordings, and other little details of contemporary music means that I'd like to have a mental map of band relations.

So, here we go: it's a Python script which uses queries MusicBrainz via Python-MusicBrainz, and outputs dot files, which I send to dot and make some shiny graphs. Hope you like it.

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A Perfect Circle

Broken Social Scene

Traveling Wilburys