ATTN SNOWBIRD SKI RESORT BUSINESS CENTER: YOU ARE RATHER PRICEY

OH HAI. We're at a ski resort checking out the local music scene here in the Utah mountains. Frankly, we find it lacking, though the full roster of uh-mah um-pah bands we caught the other night was pretty wicked. And seriously, you cover John Denver, you're flying a jet-plane in our book. But sadly, as thin as the music here is, so too the wireless internet. And they're charging per minute rates in the business center like this mouse is made of solid gold cocaine. In other words, we must be brief, and you know this must be important.

THERE ARE TWO (count em) TWO way way aces music festivals in Houston this weekend, both with that local glint we do love so, and both pretty cheap. We'll write more later in the week, but we wanted to give you the heads up that The Axiom 20th Anniversary Festival is Friday and Saturday night, taking over both stages at Fitzgerald's, and liberating for you the memories of many many Houston bands long passed like Sprawl, deSchmog and Joint Chiefs.

THEN ON SATURDAY, all day infact, but ending reasonably early enough for you to catch day two of the Axiomapaloza, is 2007's second Westheimer Block Party, put on by the good people at the Free Press and featuring something excessive like 50 bands, including tons of our favorites (Golden Axe, Sabra Laval, Cop Warmth, Rustler, Generic Tribe and Hearts of Animals just to name a few), and it's totally free.

Oh and you know, with all this good stuff happening, there's no WAY we will be in town for it. SBT! We'll write more when we're not paying per minute.