VIBRATIONS 2012 Mix #2 by Witch Gardens

We're pleased to present HOOP, the second Vibrations 2012 mix by one of our most-loved acts, Witch Gardens. "It features a selection of our favorite songs mixed with deep archival footage from the WG Vaults. Please enjoy! We love you & see you at the festival!" 

VIBRATIONS Saturday August 25th in Volunteer Park

SO HYPED to announce Vibrations 2012, the second annual Music & Arts Festival in Volunteer Park.  9 Bands, Art & Video Installations, Readings on the lawn, Vending by the best local artists, food, coffee, FREE popsicles, random tent building, and much more.  Over the next month we'll be releasing a series of mixes and interviews involving all of the artists you see below.  Check back often, or friend us on Facebook to keep up to date.  SEE YOU IN THE PARK!

Cairo is proud to Present Vibrations in Volunteer Park, sponsored by Whole Foods, KEXP, The Stranger, and Land Management

2012 Band Line-up:

Dantasia (a special project by Truckasaurus)
King Dude 
Night Beats
White Rainbow & O.C. Notes (special collab set)
U.S.F. & Secret Colors (special collab set)
Witch Gardens
Stickers
Erik Blood
Detective Agency

We will have Video Installations again by I WANT YOU (formerly Dumb Eyes).  Check out their video round-up for Vibrations 2011

Memories of Vibrations Festival from Dumb Eyes on Vimeo.


We are very excited to announce the addition of Max & Graham this year, who'll be providing some epic art installations.  More visual artists to be announced in the next few weeks.

Also new this year will be a series of readings on the lawn between bands hosted by the fine folks at Mixtape Readings & April.  Full author line-up forthcoming....

Come chill in Seattle's most gorgeous setting, bring a blanket and some cash, we'll have vending by Cairo, Prism, &. Co Jewelry, Patty Pan Grill, Analog Coffee, Wave Books, High Five Pies, CMRTYZ, ggnzla RECORDS, Highfives and Handshakes Records, and many more.

ALSO available for the first time EVER will be the second edition of the Cairo Tape Club, a limited edition cassette series (numbered to 100), featuring three of the artists performing at Vibrations 2012 (U.S.F., Secret Colors, White Rainbow) as well as never before released 20 minute epic jam by Mark McGuire.  All sets recorded and mastered by Dylan Wall.

You can stream Cairo Tape Club #1 here:



Or buy one of about 10 remaining copies from our website

LONG LIVE SUMMER.

Cairo Quickie: OFFSITE!

This Cairo Quickie was taken OFFSITE at the Vita Loft last weekend.

Starring Mr. Casey Catherwood of Witch Gardens and guest starring his, um, football.

Looking for wise words from Casey Catherwood? Maybe something about falling asleep on the job...


Oh hey! Extra special congrats to Witch Gardens for their interview on the Seattle Weekly blog!

Later,
Liv

First Annual VIBRATIONS Free Outdoor Music Festival This Weekend!

In case you haven't heard, we at Cairo are supremely pleased to be hosting the first annual VIBRATIONS music festival this Saturday, August 20th at the amphitheater in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill (a recommended event by the Capitol Hill Seattle blog!). The local press seem to be pretty stoked on the event as well. The Seattle Times' Andrew Matson had lots of nice things to say in an article that debuted online yesterday (and runs in today's Times print edition:

"Meeting place, fashion center, idea salon, record label and showcase for music — they all come together at Cairo, small as it is...the place is starting to look like the vortex of an exciting new movement, especially since the launch last month of Cairo Records, an attempt at bottling the energy around the space."

Read Matson's entire article here.

Meantime, Seattle Weekly's Erin Thompson has documented Cairo's upward trajectory as a local nexus for the arts in another new article:

"It makes sense that Cairo's looking to extend even further beyond their established family of bands—it's the same upward trajectory by which a one-room art gallery evolved into a festival-hosting, band-promoting, album-distributing record label."

Read more of Erin's generous write-up here.

And, for the link-averse readers out there, here's a reminder of the awesome VIBRATIONS line-up:

-Seapony
-Witch Gardens
-Charles Leo Gebhardt IV
-Stephanie
-Metal Chocolates
-Flexions
-Purple & Green
-Grass Widow

+ DJs from Voodoo Reverb and Actual Pain

The fun kicks off at 2 pm Saturday. For directions to Volunteer Park, click here. We can't wait to see you there!

Announcing VIBRATIONS--Cairo's Free Outdoor Music Festival!

Cairo is pleased to announce the first annual VIBRATIONS MUSIC FESTIVAL on Saturday, August 20th. This is a FREE outdoor summer concert event to be held at the Volunteer Park amphitheater featuring eight of the coast's best artists, with between-set DJs and more. Sponsored by Whole Foods, KEXP, and the Stranger, VIBRATIONS will be the last and best concert of the summer season, with a line-up that includes some of our favorite Cairo performers as well as some awesome talent that's never graced our space before:

-Grass Widow
-Purple & Green
-Flexions
-Metal Chocolates
-Stephanie
-Witch Gardens
-Charles Leo Gebhardt IV
-Seapony

The music is set to start at 2 PM on Saturday, August 20th, and last into the night. Building on the legacy of our highly-successful EXPO series of micro-festivals, Cairo is expanding our horizons, putting together this special one-day event for fans of awesome music and arts across Seattle.

Mark your calendars. The forecast calls for good vibrations.

To RSVP to VIBRATIONS today, click here.

Congrats to Witch Gardens and USF

Two of Cairo's featured artists on our 2010 The Cold Jungle compilation cropped up on Pitchfork this week. Read Martin Douglas' review of Witch Gardens' Alice, Agatha, Branch & Christ here and watch the new video for USF's new single "Close Your Eyes" below.

Tonight: Witch Gardens, DUZHKNEW, Cousins, and Neighbors

More great live music tonight, as per usual. Local pop quartet Witch Gardens--fresh off another recording sesh and the debut of their new 7" artwork--will headline a show that includes visiting Nova Scotians DUZHEKNEW and Cousins. Neighbors open this all-ages show. Doors at 8 pm, $5 to enter. Here's some more dish on our Canadian guests:

DUZHEKNEW

Adam O'Reilly is a self-styled "weird Canadian" (is there any other kind?) who plays under the alias DUZHEKNEW. His brand of indie pop is sort of jagged and frantic, but marked by a charismatic joyfulness, making him an ideal companion to Witch Gardens. Sometimes his songs take on more of a sparse, melancholic dimension with heart-on-your-sleeve earnestness and elegiac guitar sounds, and other times they're peppy and boisterous. For live performances, O'Reilly has recently been joined by a pair of other jammers.



Cousins

Novia Scotians Cousins ply strained, triumphant indie rock in a fairly traditional (not nonetheless exciting) mold. While their recordings are a little more restrained, apparently Cousins are genuinely raucous live, and brimming with fuck-it-all brio. When the duo came in to record a live session for the folks at Daytrotter during the POP Montreal festival, Sean Moeller was compelled to write, "We appreciate that we have a young band like this to believe in, one that makes you feel like you're living down by the train tracks, tooling around on dirt bikes and skateboards, drinking Mountain Dew, thinking about bad news girls and feeling that you've got an itch that you just can't scratch."

Molson and Labatt night! See you there!

Ghost to Falco to Perform on 1/14 with a Full Band!

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dragging an Ox Through Water's Brain Mumford and Ghost to Falco's Eric Crespo for the Weekly Volcano (the article will appear this coming Thursday online and in print). While I was getting deep with those two dudes--who play Cairo on Friday, January 14th with Witch Gardens and the inimitable U--Crespo dropped some knowledge on me about his plans for the show.

While historically Ghost to Falco has been a solo project, on the 14th, Crespo will be joined by Ryne Warner (of Ohioan and Castanets) on bass and lap steel and Bud Wilson (Aan) on drums and backing vocals. Should be epic.

Adorable New Witch Gardens Video - "Lifeguard"

Winsome/handsome/awesome local quartet Witch Gardens are set to perform at Cairo on Friday, January 14th with Dragging an Ox Through Water and the mysterious, un-google-able "U."

Stay posted for more details on that upcoming show...