Hello-Im Nicole, from a suburb of Chicago. I listen to most metal-some death/black metal, hardcore, etc. No punk or emo. Personally, I think slamdancing looks ridiculous. Yes-that is an opinion so dont send me 100 messages saying Im a poser for *listening* to hardcore. Anyways-Im definitely into the local "scene"-not a scene chick though. I work for a website called Music-Wars. Its going to be back up and running during January. Likely tomorrow-we'll see. I do have a MySpace-so check it out.