After the great success of last year’s Expo ’86 arts and music
festival, Seattle art gallery Cairo has announced that starting
this month it will be hosting monthly all-ages shows at its
space on Capitol Hill.
This Friday, February 20, it gets things cracking with a show whose
acoustic-
guitar awesomeness needs little explanation, featuring
Tiny Vipers, PWRFL Power, and Generifus. On
Generifus’s somber guitar pop album Solstice Songs, intimate
storyteller Spencer Sult shares a piece of his soul that is deeply
moving and unique. Sult’s songs will make a great opener for two of
Seattle’s biggest names in singer-songwriting.
On Saturday, February 21, Seattle’s Love Tan crash into the
joint like a boulder through a pane of glass, their hazy, echoing punk
sound riding a line between glossy and jagged. On songs like the druggy
haunt “Fuzzy Grave,” the duo—featuring ex-members of the
Intelligence, another band known for their foggy sound—thrash
on drums and wail on thick, surfy guitars, all while moaning and
wailing like zombies afraid to get a little wet at high tide.
Their songs rise and fall like wicked rip curls, making for a wild ride
reminiscent of the gnarly noise of fellow weirdo rippers A-Frames.
They’re a perfect fit to open for strange, noisy rockers Talbot
Tagora, who are easily one of the best bands calling the Emerald
City home today. 
This weekend’s shows are two slices of all-ages action that are too
good to miss—and a promising glimpse of Cairo’s potential.
Fri Feb 20: Aurora, Window View, the Mopes, Moorea
Seal, Taylor Neal at Q Cafe, 8 pm, $7/$5 students.
Fri Feb 20: Tiny Vipers, PWRFL Power, Generifus at
Cairo, 8 pm, $7.
Sat Feb 21: Lake, Karl Blau, Your Heart Breaks at
20/20 Cycle, 8 pm, $6–$8 donation.
Sat Feb 21: Talbot Tagora, Love Tan at Cairo, 8 pm,
$5.
Tues Feb 24: Thank You, Mi Ami, Pillow Fight Fight
at Vera Project, 7:30 pm, $6/$5 w/club card.