ALASKAS live at CAIRO

New ALASKAS material from the show at Cairo this past week is up! Dillon asked a couple friends to play with him and fill out a few songs and it turned out great. Check this video out.

ALASKAS Live at Cairo from Peter Lowe on Vimeo.

This Friday (2/5) at Cairo M. Women release their new 7". Wet Paint and Secret Colors support.

Sunday (2/7) Highfives and Handshakes continues our free monthly showcase at the Fish Fry with Eel Eater and Stickers

Cairo is at Summit and Mercer St. on Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
Pike Street Fish Fry is on 10th and Pike tucked into the Neumo's Building

Healthy Times, Saturday the 28th

Tonight ALASKAS and Brainfruit will blows minds at Healthy Times Fun Club performing differnet sets from last weekends blowout at Cairo. Aa reminiscent noise rockers ASSS from Portland, OR join the bill, as well as Matt Lawson's Secret Colors.

ASSS
ALASKAS
Brainfruit
Secret Colors

8pm, ALL AGES
Saturday, November 28th
Healthy Times Fun Club
$5 Donation

EXPO '87

This weekend, and starting tonight, is Expo '87. A collection of great local, independent musicians playing in tiny spaces the size of your apartment, or living room.

Friday night will top off with the presentation of the Seattle Band Map (1/6 above), created by Rachel Ratner and Real Fake, or in full "The Cartographic Study of Musical Incest" In it's 60 square feet the band map covers the Intelligence, to Mudhoney, to Botch, to Fastbacks and on, only connecting bands with shared members. Attendees are encouraged to make corrections and additions to the map.

Saturday is loaded with Highfives' artists and friends. Including our new addition to the family, Wet Paint. ALASKAS, USF, Brainfruit just to begin. It's all happening at the corner of Summit and Mercer this weekend. Check the schedule below for times, pricing, and such. Read the Expo '87 blog.

Unshackled Video, Remix

Alaskas - Unshackled from DILLON JAMES REGO on Vimeo.

Unshackled from ALASKAS' debut LP Set Yourself Free out now. Produced by A Place Called Yes

USF have also brought us another trippy ALASKAS remix: Unshackled USF remix.

Check him out on the east coast this month:

10/3 Boston, MA
at the The Whitehaus with Nameless, Many Mansions, Coralcola, Ming Ming Dance Co.

10/19 Brooklyn, NY
at Death By Audio with Nameless, MNDR, Ruffeo Hearts Lil Snotty

ALASKAS Record Release Show

You are all invited to come out this weekend for the ALASKAS' CD Release show at Healthy Times Fun Club at it's usual top secret location. Universal Studios Florida are fairly fresh off the road from their first tour supporting their new record Ocean Sunbirds. Heavy local duo Last Slice of Butter are playing for the first time in a grip, and are completely local for the time being. I'm happy to announce the appearance of Wet Paint on the bill, featuring members of Cut***Loose (RIP). They tore up my living room a week or so ago and everyone who saw them should be truly excited to see them perform again.

See you this Saturday!

ALASKAS
Universal Studios Florida
Last Slice of Butter
Wet Paint

Sept. 19th
Healthy Times Fub Club
8pm All Ages
No Booze

Set Yourself Free

SET YOURSELF FREE
ALASKAS

DUE OUT SEPT 15th

Tracklist
1)Send Them Off
2) Farewell to Them All
3) Let the State Lines Exist
4) Pronoun
5) Diving In
6) Easily
7) My Dance is an Orbit
8) This Cloud On My Side
9) I Am Yours
10) Unshackled

Listen to Unshackled...

ALASKAS is Dillon James Rego, a one-man power-house of primitive bliss, looped vocals and loose, slippery beat boxing. His debut full length, Set Yourself Free, out September 15th on Highfives and Handshakes, is a culmination of his vast musical past, combining the sonic fury of his live show with the glittering guitar sound scapes of his last EP. Featuring new recordings of some of his most rhythmically and lyrically memorable songs as well as new, reverb-drenched hymns, Set Yourself Free is a masterfully crafted experiment in layering and melody at once ferocious, meditative and wholly unique.

PRE-ORDER SET YOURSELF FREE in the Records section.

Words by Kyle Hargus

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20TH

Another incredible lineup taking place this Friday in my basement:



Foot Village from LA are 4 drummers. Screaming. Attacking. // Magic Johnson is from Portland. Bilingual boy and girl with crispy crunchy dance punk. A Los Angeles party bus running red lights with Oregon plates. // Total Bros are from Portland. Fast, fun, mathy catchy fast jams. If you missed them a couple weeks ago, here is another chance. If you saw them, you'll be here. Duh. // Cut***Loose is my favorite band. The three instruments kind of sound like they are arguing about religion or Richard Pryor or something. // ALASKAS has lost his voice.

ALASKAS reporting on the scene.

Hello friends, thanks for having hella fun on Saturday with me. I had a total blast. I wanted to let you know about a crucial show at my house, Chilladelphia, on Sunday. It features 2 incredibly excited young bands from Seattle: Herr Jazz and Problems. Also, from Portland we have the super-fun duo Total Bros making their Seattle debut. And, all the way from my hometown of Santa Rosa CA, comes Exasperation Missionary to beat your ass with some old-school screamo. The boys from Batman Vs. Predator, who shredded my house twice now, hold down bass and drums, so you know what you're getting into.



Oh, then on Friday the 13th, I am invading another living room in the U-District with my newest collaborator, comrades, and solid dudes who hook me up with rides to our shows: Universal Studios Florida. Check out their remix of my song Pronoun as well.



ALASKAS (USA): H&H2009