So. Austin has ACL, we have the International Festival. They have SXSW, we have lots of burger joints. And, in the last couple of years a new joint, Fun Fun Fun Fest has started killing it, and we have… increasingly less free parking. Suffice to say, our neighbors in the [...]

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UPDATED: ok.  turns out there is a show in Montrose afterall. This is a weird weekend kinda, and not just cause we’re recommending shows at Fitzgeralds, Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar and Double Dave’s Pizza (to some of you it will also be weird that we’re all frosted tips about a weekend at the Shady Tavern [...]

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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 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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AVAST! The next HOOTENANNY is a mere MONTH AWAY! NO! We are not talking about the new Weezer tour of the same name (Sorry Weezer, Awesome! played as you during the first Hootenanny, but if you would like you can play as Awesome! at HOOTENANNY 3: TROITENANNY!). We’re talking about [...]

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(UPDATED: Frightened Rabbit cancels, Hearts of Animals now on bill. See Below.) Why? Because we’re going to have a non-gender confusing interaction with a hairstylist? NO, BECAUSE WE AINT CRYING NO MORE BECAUSE THE SCATTED PAGES ARE BACK! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FIND US A VIDEO OF SHAQ DOING SOME SORT OF RIDICULOUS [...]

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OK! So, before we begin talking about Flowers to Hide’s most whips debut EP (hah, or released recording of any kind, actually - more on that later), we feel like we have to take a second out and buffet like Warren the inevitable criticism which we feel members of The Caprolites will subsequently bestow [...]

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