WINTER Lookbook from the fine folks at World Famous

New  2012 Winter Lookbook, created for Cairo by the AMAZING team at World Famous.  Filmed on location at Land Management, with music from Grave Babies (Hardly Art Records) ENJOY!

Cairo Winter Lookbook 2012 from Christopher Harrell on Vimeo.

Photos from EXPO 89 & video from Ilyas Ahmed

Robert Wolfe & his artwork above

 

Ilyas Ahmed

Eric 

Devin of Flexions

someday we'll have our light back

Adam Forkner of White Rainbow & Purple & Green

Coastal Sightings and EXPO shirts (still a few left!).
Designed by Gabriel Stromberg

Pleasure Beauties

Grave Babies

Brian & Paul of Idle Times, check out Paul's podcast
"I can't believe I'm a Loser"  REAL good

One of the 20 events Shannon Perry participated in over
the weekend, seen here reading at Mixtape #4

Matt Lawson of Secret Colors & Stephanie

high fives, with O.C. Notes

Cairo Digital Mixtape #02 is Online Now

Cairo's second-ever digital mixtape is now online. This epic mix was compiled by Cairo honcho Joel Leshefka and spans a broad array of genres and eras. "New Age Terrence Malick Weekend" is, incidentally, also the name of one of Cairo's most underrated and psychedelic t-shirt designs (I'm wearing mine right now! There's still some on sale at Cairo and 20 Twenty). "Side A" and "Side B" of this mixtape are embedded below, and are freely download-able. Track 4 of Side A is from the brand new Flexions record, and you're hearing it here first. Stay tuned to Cairo for more brand new digital mixes in coming weeks.



New Age Terrence Malick Weekend Side A by Cairo Seattle

New Age Terrence Malick Weekend Side B by Cairo Seattle

Side A

01. Endless Sleep - Joey Reynolds
02. Go Outside - The Cults
03. Bees - Tanlines
04. Golden Fjord - Flexions
05. Close Your Eyes (U Remix) - U.S.F.
06. It Doesn't Arrive - Emeralds
07. Wires - The Moles
08. Axis Mundi - Magik Markers
09. Lion Tamer - Wet Paint DMM
10. Anything Could Happen - the Clean
11. Branss - U.S.F.
12. Brook Meadows - Rangers

Side B

01. Heave - Gauntlet Hair
02. True Blue - Dirty Beaches
03. Who Are You Trying to Fool - Little Ann
04. Trapdoor- S4LEM
05. Shiver - Grave Babies
06. Beyond Living - Milk Music
07. Pink Moon - Sebadoh
08. In the Garden of the Pharaohs - Wet Hair
09. See Through - Arthur Russell
10. Meds - Stephanie
11. Stand Alone - Pink Military
12. Tame All the Lions - Valet

Some Photos from Saturday Night

Thanks to Sam for sending these in our direction. Please remember to hit us up with photos and video from the shows--we would love to post them here whenever possible.

Half Gift



Grave Babies



Psychic Feline

A Friendly Last-Minute Reminder

There's a ton of great shows happening in Seattle tonight, but don't forget about this one!

HALF GIFT (mem. of Wet Paint DMM, Eel Eater)

GRAVE BABIES

PSYCHIC FELINE (PDX)



Show starts at 8 PM! See you then.

Who are Half Gift?

This Saturday, Cairo and local label Highfives and Handshakes present an excellent night of music featuring Portland's Psychic Feline, Grave Babies, and brand-spanking-new Seattle group Half Gift. Just who are Half Gift, anyway? Fans of the Seattle DIY circuit may recognize some of its players...

Half Gift is a new Seattle quartet featuring members of two beloved and defunct (or on-hiatus) DIY acts. The lineup includes James Schaell (Wet Paint DMM) on guitar and back-up vocals, Jessica James (Eel Eater) on drums, Samantha Pease on bass, and Maria Russell as the band’s lead vocalist. Half Gift’s drearily pretty sound is extremely Northwestern, with melancholic, chorus-lacquered guitar refrains repeating ad infinitum between ethereal, airy vocals and a locked-in rhythm section. The drumming is more varied and daring than Eel Eater’s was, and the guitar is less herky-jerky and more sentimental than Wet Paint DMM’s scalene squeaks and stabs. I predict lots of people will be smitten with their “In Gloom,” a song whose title winks towards Nirvana but which is musically more akin to a hybrid of the swirling broodiness of ‘80s dreampop and the Ronettes (the beat to “In Gloom” is only the latest in a long and storied history of variations on the indelible percussive pattern from “Be My Baby”).

The awesome poster you see above was done by Half Gift's Sam Pease. See you on Saturday!