GO SEE CHRISTMAS ON TOUR. TOTES, SOAP, TEES, 7"s and MUSTACHE WAX available from the band while ON THE ROAD:

8/26/2010 Olympia, WA: THE CUNNINGHAM w/HARI KARI
8/27/2010 Seattle, WA: CAIRO w/Strong Killings, Partman Parthorse
8/28/2010 Spokane, WA: BABY BAR
8/29/2010 Missoula, MT: BSMT FREESTORE
8/30/2010 Billings, MT: THE RAILYARD
8/31/2010 Fargo/Bismark, ND: TBD
9/1/2010 Duluth, MN: TBD
9/2/2010 Twin Cities, MN: THE TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB w/ RUSSIAN BRIDE
9/3/2010 Twin Cities, MN: 1419 w/GLASS BUDS
9/4/2010 Milwaukee, WI: BORG WARD
9/5/2010 Chicago, IL: THE ATTICw/NUDE SUNRISE, BIRTHDAYS, VACATION DAD
9/6/2010 Detroit, MI: ATLAS BAR w/FRUSTRATIONS
9/7/2010 Pittsburgh, PA: HOWLER'S COYOTE CAFE w/THOMAS FUNCTION
9/8/2010 Baltimore, MA: THE GOOD SON
9/9/2010 Brooklyn, NY: SHEA STADIUM
9/10/2010 Brooklyn, NY: UNION POOL w/DARLINGS, MERMAIDS
9/11/2010 Philadelphia, PA: CASTLE GAY
9/12/2010 Washington, DC: COMET PING PONG w/IAN SVENONIUS, MAYBE BABY
9/13/2010 Harrisonburg, VA: JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
9/14/2010 Chapel Hill, NC: THE NIGHT LIGHT
9/15/2010 Athens, GA: FARM 255 w/COCO RICO
9/16/2010 Atlanta, GA: HIGHLAND INN w/UNTIED STATES, DJ TARADACTYL
9/17/2010 Chattanooga, TN: DISCOTECA w/FOREST MAGIC, BIG KITTY, UNTIED STATES
9/18/2010 Memphis, TN: THE DAIRY w/ALL HOWLERS
9/19/2010 Lawerence, KS: THE REPLAY LOUNGE
9/20/2010 Omaha, NE: THE SLOWDOWN
9/21/2010 Colorado Springs, CO: COLORADO COLLEGE
9/22/2010 Salt Lake City, UT: URBAN LOUNGE w/WHITE HILLS
9/23/2010 Reno, NV: HOLLAND PROJECT HQ
9/24/2010 SF/Oakland, CA: TBD
9/25/2010 San Francisco, CA: AMNESIA

Labels: Black Soap, Christmas, CMRTYZ, Highfives and Handshakes, Metal 7", Mustache Wax, Scenic Beauty, Tees, The Whips of Love, US Tour

Emily Beanblossom from Christmas has created these fantastic handmade bars of black soap for their US tour that starts next week. Pick up a bar in our store if you're feelin' dirty right now.

CMRTYZ's BAD VIDZ caught Christmas playing "The Whips of Love" off the Scenic Beauty 7" at SMMR BMMR this past weekend in Portland. We all had a great time, and now that Jake is 21 he can help us drink all the free beer next year.

Labels: Christmas, Christmas Soap, Emily Beanblossom, Highfives and Handshakes, Metal 7", Olympia, Scenic Beauty, Seattle, SMMR BMMR

Christmas' newest METAL 7" is up for pre-order today! Follow this mostly secret link to pick up a copy early. They'll ship by September 1st straight to your door, and you can download in the format of your choosing right away.

If you need some wax in your hands immediately their SCENIC BEAUTY 7" is still available. Limited to 57 copies and their aren't that many left! Though as always, the mp3s will continue to be available after the 7"s have sold out.

Here's the new single PIES produced and engineered with help from Olympia's own Arrington De Dionyso.





Christmas plays shows: 8/14 - SMMR BMMR, Portland, OR
8/21 - HELSING JUNCTION, Rural Thurston County, WA
8/27 - CAIRO Tour Kickoff, Seattle, WA

8/28 and beyond - US TOUR dates here.

Labels: Christmas, CMRTYZ, El Colorado, Metal, Olympia, Pies, Psychedelic Summer, Punch In, Scenic Beauty, Seattle, The Whips of Love, US Tour

Spent the past week fixin up some new t-shirts for the summer time, all hand printed on Cairo shirts at Cairo. Some for both Christmas and Highfives. In our store soon...

Labels: Cairo Brand, Christmas, Highfives and Handshakes, T-Shirts, Tees

Christmas' SCENIC BEAUTY 7" is out today and on it's way to NYC for the PSYCHEDELIC SUMMER opening at Rare Gallery, TONIGHT JUNE 24th. Art from John Malta, C.M. Ruiz, Cassie Ramone and Mathew Volz. The Beets and The Babies play tonight at the opening and records from a bunch of other record labels and clothes too. The installation and pop-up store is open through the end of July.

This clear new flexi 7" is hand cut by Single Piece Slate and limited to 57 copies. Completely handmade in Seattle, WA. You can pick it up in our online store for now, some will be available outside the web in NY and Seattle shortly.

If you've seen Christmas before there's a good chance they've opened with THE WHIPS OF LOVE, so we decided to open with it here on the A side.




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Labels: C.M. Ruiz, Cassie Ramone, Christmas, CMRYTYZ, Highfives and Handshakes, John Malta, Mathew Volz, Rare Gallery, The Babies, The Beets

Dillon James Rego as ALASKAS,will soon be a Brooklyn resident artist.

In support of his move he will tour the west coast beginning this Friday with local experimental rock group and neighbors Haunted Horses.

ALASKAS new I Love Life EP will be available as a cassette on tour and download here. More rhythmic, complex, and guitar oriented than his previous Set Yourself Free LP we released last year, it features assistance in the percussion department from Pelle and Colin of Haunted Horses and was recorded by the latter member.



The Set Yourself Free LP and download is still available here.

Don't live in Seattle? Great! Check this tour out, both Portland dates sparkle with brilliance and with Italic Indian joining that Irvine show it's bound to elevate.

All dates with HAUNTED HORSES and ALASKAS.

06/11/10 at ANALOG ROOM (Portland, OR)
********** with Total Bros, Magic Johnson, Karen

06/13/10 at THE FORT (Oakland, CA)
********** with Run DMT, Blissed Out, Magick Report

06/14/10 at TRIBAL CAFE (LA, CA)
********** with Cyan Ides

06/15/10 at THE SMELL (LA, CA)
********** with Dunes, Back To The Future The Ride

06/16/10 at MCWORLD (LA,CA)
********** with Former Ghosts, Kevin Costner Saves The World, Dream
Panther, and Railcars DJ-ing.

06/17/10 at ACROBATICS EVERYDAY (Irvine, CA)
********** with Moon Pearl and Italic Indian

06/18/10 at BIKO GARAGE (Santa Barbara, CA)
********** with The Blank Tapes and Nohow On

06/19/10 at GERBER PERMANENTE (Oakland, CA)
********** other acts TBA

06/20/10 at VALENTINES (Portland, OR)
********** with ASSS, Mattress

Labels: ALASKAS, Dillon James Rego, Haunted Horses, Highfives and Handshakes, I Love Life, Set Yourself Free

Home at Highfives headquarters we've been hard at work getting our store streamlined, interns in place, new records out to you and now booking shows at the Pike Street Fish Fry.


Before we dig into all our newest, freshest releases and news for the spring, you should meet our new friends Christmas. They are the newest, singlest, raging garage band out of Olympia. One well received, and almost sold out 7" came out last year on Olympia label Endless Latino, you can pick it up here. Take a couple minutes to appreciate how much you want to see them live.

Listen to "Pies" by Christmas, Live in Seattle,


download their live set here,

and watch them Play "Gut" in Tacoma,

Gut from This Is Not A Record Label on Vimeo.

Christmas play April 17th at the Black Lodge in Seattle with Partman Parthorse and SPURM.

Labels: 7", Christmas, Endless Latino, Highfives and Handshakes, Olympia, Partman Parthorse, SPURM