function [tags, tag_weight] = fm_retrieve_artist_similarity(artist1,artist2)
%[tags, tag_weight] = fm_get_artist_tags(artist_name)
%
% returns last.fm artist tags and tag weights for given artist
% this uses a lastpy python script to handle the REST data exchange

% call python function
tagstr = python('fm_retrieve_artist_similarity.py', artist1, artist2)

% parse text function output
%tags = textscan(tagstr,'%s %d','Delimiter',',');
%tag_weight = tags{2};
%tags = tags{1};