Pothole Skinny is a psych music project founded by Stephen Connolly. It was born out of solo song work which encompassed early private cassette and CDr demos that eventually, along with work by Gabriel Walsh assisted in the birth of Stephen and Gabriel’s label Perhaps Transparent Records. After a recommendation from friend Pat Gubler (PG Six), Stephen met up with Pat’s Tower Recordings’ bandmate Scott Freyer. Quickly after, friends Frank Murphy and Mark Townsend agreed on joining in to create and nurture Pothole Skinny’s first full length release “Time Shapes the Forest Lake”. Mark Townsend left after a short time, but still appears as a guest on occasions. After the release of “Time Shapes the forest Lake”, Abaton Books Company’s artist and Punk/Experimental Veteran Mark Dagley (The Girls) was coaxed into sliding his hand into the fold and quickly became a key member of the group. From this period  through the release of ‘The Old Bergen Vault’ – a collection of unreleased, rare and live recordings – Pothole Skinny was comprised of these core members.

Other musical projects and/or collaborations include: Tower Recordings, P.G. Six, Your Team Ring, Two Dollar Guitar, Emerald Tablets, Marianne Nowottny, Julia Vorontsova, and various improvisational collaborations.