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August 19, 2011

Cairo’s First Annual Vibrations Fest Tomorrow at Volunteer Park

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Speaking of awesome local Summer Festivals, multi-use space, gallery and label Cairo are hosting their first annual Vibrations Festival tomorrow at Volunteer Park and it’s free. Cairo’s put together a stellar line-up of bands from San Francisco to Seattle to kick off the Festival and you’ll want to bring your picnic blanket and your dancing shoes.

The music gets started at 2pm and will go to 10 and it’s an all ages festival. Here’s the full-schedule:

8:45 – GRASS WIDOW (San Francisco) 7:45 – PURPLE & GREEN (Portland) 7:00 – FLEXIONS 6:15 – METAL CHOCOLATES 5:30 – STEPHANIE 4:45 – WITCH GARDENS 4:00 – CHARLES LEO GEBHARDT IV 3:15 – SEAPONY

With special guest DJ’s VOODOO REVERB, BRUSH OFF & SECOND SIGHT Visuals by Dumb Eyes

You can read more about the good work being done at Cairo over at Matson on Music.

October 9, 2009

SEA x CMJ

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Black Whales The Moondoggies The Maldives Unnatural Helpers The Whore Moans The Dutchess and the Duke Kate Tucker
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People of New York City! Music bloggers who are lucky enough to be going to NYC for CMJ! Bookending this years CMJ festivities are two showcases featuring the talented bands and local labels of the Pacific Northwest, and we assure you, they are very worthy of your time. The Maldives, who tour minimally outside of Seattle are coming special for the Mt. Fuji showcase, so please don’t miss your chance to see them. And I think you’ve probably heard of a little Seattle label called Sub Pop and it’s offshoot Hardly Art…

October 20th at Bruar Falls, 245 Grand St. Mt Fuji CMJ Showcase featuring 10.15pm Whore Moans 11pm Maldives 11.45pm Black Whales (See the poster above)

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October 24th at the Mercury Lounge The Sub Pop/Hardly Art CMJ Showcase featuring 7pm Unnatural Helpers 8pm Dum Dum Girls 9pm Moondoggies 10pm The Dutchess & The Duke 11pm Golden Triangle 12am Pissed Jeans 1am Obits 2am Male Bonding

KEXP will be there broadcasting live performances every day and hosting a film festival. Locals the Blakes and the Moondoggies will both be stopping by to get in a session, in addition to bands like the XX. It’s actually a pretty wide ranging lineup, very much in the spirit of the fest.

There are a few other showcases which will will be featuring other Seattle area bands including:

October 20th at the Santos House Party Basement 10.30 Flexions 11.30 Unnatural Helpers

October 20th at the Suffolk 9.00 Tennis Pro

October 21st at Wicked Willies 9.00pm The Purrs

October 22nd at Googies Lounge 8.00pm Kasey Anderson

October 22nd at Union Hall 11.00pm Army Navy

October 23rd at Googies Lounge 7.30pm Kate Tucker

October 23rd at Crash Mansion (Downstairs) 9.15pm The Blakes 10.45pm Army Navy

October 24th at Union Pool 7.40pm Flexions

October 24th at the Gramercy Theater 10.10pm Blue Scholars

October 24th at the Suffolk 10pm D. Black 11.00 Champagne Champagne

This is your chance NYC to see a number of bands we’ve helped to get you to know and there’s plenty of talent to chew on from those listings alone.  Of course there is an insane number of other non-Seattle bands playing CMJ, you can find the complete schedule for the festival online.