Can we just all take a moment to give a round of applause to the Free Press. It’s the little independent publication that could, and once again it has shown that it not only gets the caboose up to the top of the mountain, but once there builds a bridge to the next peak [...]

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Cannot deny it, the folks at the Free Press have put together another WHIPS OF ACES lineup for their twice-annual block party. All this week, we’ll be helping battle your OH NO, WHICH SHOW TO GO? malady with a shot in the arm of our thoughts on some recent releases by Block Party acts. And [...]

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UPDATE 7:29PM - The show at the Mink tonight is Cancelled
CAN YOU FEEL IT, BUMPING ON YOUR STEREO?  No, that’s not an old fav from Supergrass, what you’re hearing is the sound of marquee show after marquee show falling off the walls and into the bin of RESCHEDULE or CLOSED.  Rather than do like we [...]

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Lately, Governor Perry has had his hands rather full declaring coastal counties disaster areas, rebuilding his mansion and otherwise handling the minutia of running America’s most WHIPS state. Fortunately, he’s a good looking man with a strong voice and Executive Hair, which always helps in the leadership department. Likewise, he delegates, which is [...]

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HEY!  One last word (we don’t really promise) on the TWOTENANNY!  Quite a few videos were shot of the bands, and we thought we’d put them all in one place for you.  You know, a kind of Swiss Army Knife of the Best of Houston covering the Best of Everyone Else.  You’re Welcome.
SHARKS AND SAILORS [...]

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Weeeell, the results are in from the 2008 Houston Press Music Awards, and while there were some winners in the scene we all breathe and love, we have to say that our enthusiasm for the results is tempered.  Be it voter apathy or competitive categories splitting the Hands_Up vote, it looks like that the sector [...]

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Mike of American Sharks playing the TWOTENANNY as The Cars. Photo by Elissa Brown
Well my oh my what a fine weekend it was.  Granted, we have heard word that more than a few of you are still shakey pale like a cotton candy twirler from two days of excessive EPIC, but really - [...]

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Can we take a step back and just bask in the freaking glory of this weekend? We got CD releases and old bands saying farewell, we got ten of the city’s finest cuttin’ rugs at the TWOTENANNY!, we got the Houston Press Music Awards showcase with 60 bands on ten stages. Man. [...]

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HEY - WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE COCOON? OURS IS THE THIRD ONE. Joey Promahoney recommends it too. But if watching geriatrics get a new lease on life due to light-emitting aliens isn’t your thing, may we reccomend this video of Buxton’s Sergio playing Bjork’s Cocoon in Beaumont last Friday.

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HEY GUESS WHAT THIS WEEK IS?  HOOTENANNY TWO: TWOTENANNY! YUSS!  We here at The Skyline Network and our most extreme party call me co-curator Mr. Ben Murphy are stoked like the Pope at what lies just a few days hence.  And so are the bands!  EVIDENCE:  Flowers to Hide have recorded themselves playing The Cure’s [...]

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