THE NAUTICAL MILE BREAKS UP

DANGIT. Well, if you like what you heard of The Nautical Mile in our podcast last week, you’d best get yourself to Notsuoh Tuesday night – 'cause their performance there with Tambersauro and Six Parts Seven will be the band’s last show. After a three year run, the band made the low-key announcement in a short statement on their blog earlier today. As far as we know, the ending is amicable and prolly has more to do with the relative geographic remoteness of the members than anything else. We wish all of them our best and hope they get involved in other projects soon.

RECORD RELEASE: LACED UP TIGHTLY

Yeah. We got this one out late, but surely more than a few of you are still trolling the internet looking for something to do tonight. Well happy lucky happy for you for, as it turns out, the record release party for Gretchen Schmaltz’s Laced Up Tightly ep is tonight at Mojo Rising. A copy of her debut, put out by the local Mia Kat Empire label, is included with your cover, as are performances by Mlee Marie and those guys who we said had “goofball synths” in one of their songs, label-mates The Nautical Mile.

Schmaltz’s folk leaves country-western out to sulk in the garage while she wanders around a big wooden Southern Gothic house, strumming and crooning while a band plays in the other room even as she stops to smirk at the occasional sunflower or rummage through a sad, departed relative’s steamer-trunk. So, if Clutch isn’t really your thing, maybe try this out instead.

BECAUSE WE WERE BORED: Episode #1

Are podcasts lame? Prolly. Are they the product of people with as much time as ego on their hands? likely. Which is why The Skyline Network is pleased to announce our occasional podcast series, Because We Were Bored. We have no idea how this stuff works, so just download it below and pretend like you got it from the iTunes store or something.

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In this episode of BWWB, we're taking a look at that whole 'bands in outer-space' thing we talked about a little bit ago. Here's what you'll hear excerpts of and asinine commentary on:

Hemyah - A Silent Visit
Margot - T Minus 120
By The End of Tonight - Setting Sail in April
Blades - Thickass Cable
Tambersauro - One Picture Frame and One Half of a Picture
Storms Threaten to Destroy - Intelligent Ape
Sharks and Sailors - Topple the Pillar
The Nautical Mile - The Air Over
Antarctica Starts Here - Shannon
Co-Pilot - Low Earth Orbit