diff --git a/config/database.yml b/config/database.yml
index aa6a16c..fefc9b9 100644
--- a/config/database.yml
+++ b/config/database.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 development:
   adapter: sqlite3
-  database: db/development.sqlite3
+  database: db/development-discogs.sqlite3
   pool: 5
   timeout: 5000
 
diff --git a/lib/discogs.rb b/lib/discogs.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7aa41f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/discogs.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+class Discogs
+  def self.artists
+    File.open('tmp/data/discogs_artists.xml') do |file|
+      Nokogiri::XML::Reader.from_io(file).each do |node|
+        if node.name == 'artist' and node.node_type == Nokogiri::XML::Reader::TYPE_ELEMENT
+          self.process_artist Nokogiri::XML(node.outer_xml).root
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+  
+  def self.process_artist node
+    Artist.new(
+      :name => (node.css('name').first.text),
+      :pic_url => (node.css('images > image[type="primary"]').first.text unless node.css('images > image[type="primary"]').empty?),
+      :status => 1
+    ).save
+    p node.css('name').first.text
+  end
+  
+  def self.releases
+    
+  end
+  
+  def self.process_release
+    
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/tasks/discogs_import_artists.rake b/lib/tasks/discogs_import_artists.rake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..801e763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tasks/discogs_import_artists.rake
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require "discogs"
+namespace :discogs do
+  namespace :import do
+    desc 'Import discogs artist xml'
+    task :artists => :environment do
+      Discogs.artists
+    end
+  end
+end