Seattle coffee roaster Caffé Vita is releasing a compilation titled GIVE today consisting of 30 downloadable tracks from local artists such as Fleet Foxes, Champagne Champagne (featuring Fences), Cave Singers, Common Market, Mad Rad, and Kinski. Currently unfinished exclusive tracks by the Long Winters, Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Throw Me the Statue, The Dutchess and the Duke, and Unnatural Helpers will later be available

A GIVE benefit concert featuring Grand Archives, D. Black, Grant Olsen of Arthur & Yu, Kinski, Gabriel Mintz, Tea Cozies, and M.C. Tilson from the Saturday Knights takes place at the Crocodile Thurs. Dec. 3. Tickets can be purchased for $15 here.

Press release after the cut.

GIVE music and video compilation to benefit Arts Corps and food banks goes on sale Tuesday, Nov. 17; GIVE concert with Grand Archives and D. Black to rock the Crocodile Dec. 3

SEATTLE, WA — Coffee Roaster Caffé Vita will launch GIVE on Tuesday, November 17th with 30 downloadable tracks from a wide variety of Seattle artists, all of whom have donated songs to benefit Arts Corps and local area food banks. The complete list of artists involved will reach nearly 40 by mid-December.

A companion benefit concert featuring Grand Archives, D. Black and other artists will be held at the Crocodile Dec. 3. Tickets for the show are on sale now at www.thecrocodile.com.

The $7 compilation — conceived and initiated by Seattle coffee roaster Caffé Vita, which is producing, curating and funding the project — will be available online at www.giveseattle.org, as well as in Caffé Vita shops, Easy Street Records, Sonic Boom Records, University Book Store, The Crocodile, EMP, Neumos and Sorrento Hotel. These outlets will carry GIVE packages, including physical cards with a redemption code for the download, as ready-to-give presents.

A full 100 percent of sales will go directly to GIVE beneficiaries: Arts Corps, Seattle's largest nonprofit arts educator, along with Ballard Food Bank, Rainier Valley Food Bank, University District Food Bank and West Seattle Food Bank.

Among the many highlights of GIVE are unreleased cuts from The Cave Singers, Grand Archives, Champagne Champagne featuring Fences, The Maldives, Mad Rad, and The Moondoggies. Nearly all of the 36 tracks on GIVE are exclusive to the compilation.

The GIVE tracks available immediately on Tuesday, Nov. 17 include:

Arthur & Yu: Magic Mountain
The Blakes: Parking Lot
Sera Cahoone: Love’s Gonna Live Here
The Cave Singers: Growing Palm
Champagne Champagne featuring Fences: Victim of the Modern Age
Common Market: The Picture of My DeLorean Gray
D. Black: On the Go
Fatal Lucciauno: Gangsta
Fences: Sadie
Fleet Foxes: Mykonos
Fresh Espresso: Gettin Money
Grand Archives: Wake Up
Head Like a Kite: Director’s Cut
Hey Marseilles: From a Terrace
Kinski: Whatever Happened to Madeleine Stowe
Le Loup: Forgive Me
The Lonely Forest: I Don’t Wanna Live There
Mad Rad: Love in a Strange World
The Maldives: In the End
Gabriel Mintz: Safeway
The Moondoggies: Side of the Road
Joshua Morrison: Mammoth Cave
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: Bitter Cold
Pearly Gate Music: Big Escape
The Pica Beats: Durian Shakes
The Saturday Knights: Go!
Talbot Tagora: Ichthus Hop
Tea Cozies: Corner Store Girls
J. Tillman: Earthly Bodies
Visqueen: Hand Me Down

Several GIVE artists are still finishing their exclusive GIVE tracks, including The Long Winters, Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Throw Me The Statue, The Dutchess and The Duke, and Unnatural Helpers. Fans who purchase GIVE in November will be notified by email when these fresh tracks are available for download. The digital model allows patrons to pick and choose tracks they would like to download or simply download the entire album. Included with each sale of the physical GIVE card is a complimentary cup of Caffé Vita Farm Direct coffee, redeemable at any Vita location.

Stay tuned for several GIVE videos that bring together GIVE artists and leading filmmakers and creative firms, including Chase Jarvis, Wexley School for Girls, Creature, Steve Viehmann and City Arts Magazine.

Also appearing at the Dec. 3 benefit show will be Grant Olsen of Arthur & Yu; Kinski; Gabriel Mintz; Tea Cozies; and M.C. Tilson from The Saturday Knights. Tickets are $15.

GIVE truly is a city-wide community campaign. Nearly every facet of the project is being undertaken pro bono. Money for any expenses not donated will be raised at the Dec. 3 benefit concert.

The full list of partners for GIVE includes: 206 Inc. (strategy and publicity), Barsuk Records (music and website support), Caffé Vita (production, curation, funding), CD Forge (redemption operation), City Arts Magazine (video production and media), Creature (video production), The Crocodile (retail and concert hosting), Easy Street Records (retail), Expanding Brooklyn (publicity), Hardly Art (music and website support), Chase Jarvis (video production and promotion), KEXP (media), Lighthouse (webhosting), Robert Mercer (design), MMPUNION/Minuteman Press On Union (printing), Neumos (retail), RFI/CD (mastering), SEATTLE CITY OF MUSIC (promotion), Sonic Boom Records (retail), The Stranger (media and promotion), Sub Pop (music and website support), Superfad (animation), Tap Plastics (point of sale), Steve Viehmann (video production), Wexley School for Girls (video production) and Megan Woo Web Design (website development).

For more information, please visit GIVE online at www.giveseattle.org, and become a fan on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/pages/GIVE-SEATTLE/167527428045?ref=ts.