2010 Comp Submissions
Submissions are now closed. Thanks to all the artists who submitted! We received about 675 submissions this year, the most ever. Now the volunteer voting process begins.
A little about this process: This year we have about 70 listener volunteers, split into 7 groups of 10. The submissions are anonymized and each group listens and votes on about 100 submissions each. The top voted tracks from each group go to the board, where the voting process happens again to narrow these tracks down to around 40, or enough to fill our 2 CD compilation.
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Get it online from CD Baby or at record stores around Portland such as Music Millenium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music, and many more!
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This book is a collection of hundreds of photographs by 16 different photographers that visually document the tremendous variety of artists that have performed at PDX Pop Now! festivals and events during the first five years of our existence, 2004-2008. All proceeds from the book will directly benefit PDX Pop Now! so we can continue to operate and expand our reach for years to come. Thank you for your support!
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2007 Compilation Available June 19th
02:14PM on Monday June 11, 2007
PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fourth compilation of Portland music, will be available for sale at the ridiculously low price of $7 starting Tuesday, June 19th, at Portland-area record stores and other retail outlets, as well as online at CD Baby.
Filled with excellent tunes sure to appeal to newcomers to PDX music and consumate insiders alike, this is our most diverse album yet, featuring styles and genres from the indie rock and pop for which Portland may be best known to hip hop, jazz, and, for the first time, metal. The two-disc collection also serves up both rare treats from artists you probably know well (check the stunning Decemberists demo) and tantalizing bites from names you’ll probably want to get to know a lot better, like high school pop sensations The Hugs.
As The Oregonian just said in its review of the compilation, “Altogether, PDX Pop Now! 2007 is a statement that attests to the DIY cool of Portland as well as to the stellar quality of music right here, right now. It also underscores a point: Not every town can do this. Good for us.”
DISC 1
01 Swim Swam Swum – “Without Your French”
02 Lips and Ribs – “Battle in Nagoya”
03 Modernstate – “SSMF”
04 Menomena – “Wet and Rusting”
05 Syndel – “Lemme Hear It”
06 World Court – “Maps”
07 The Hand That Bleeds – “Shattered Love Trance”
08 The Ocean Floor – “A Simple Adventure”
09 Laura Gibson – “Come by Storm”
10 Mirah and Spectratone International –
“Community”
11 Evolutionary Jass Band – “Phyllis’ Frindge”
12 Old Time Relijun – “The Tightest Cage”
13 Black Elk – “Toss You to the Wolves”
14 Ethan Rose – “Ceiling Song 3 (Excerpt)”
15 Lifesavas – “No Surprise”
16 Alela Diane – “Up North”
17 YACHT – “See a Penny (Pick it Up)”
18 Starfucker – “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the
Second”
19 Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) – “Culling
of the Fold”
DISC 2
01 Junkface – “ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI”
02 Kristin Hersh – “Blackstone”
03 Sweater! – “Mediterranean”
04 Panther – “How Well Can You Swim?”
05 Ohmega Watts – “4 Days in Geneva”
06 Run On Sentence – “Carrie Pt. II”
07 Exploding Hearts – “(Making) Teenage
Faces”
08 Derby – “If Ever There’s a Reason”
09 The Hugs – “North”
10 Eric John Kaiser – “L’Odyssee”
11 Ferocious Eagle – “Bastards”
12 The Better to See You With – “Garden”
13 Hungry Mob – “To the People”
14 Klezmocracy – “Hava Netze B’machol”
15 Wilding & AED – “Broken Branches”
16 The Robot Ate Me – “Empty Feelings”
17 Alan Singley – “Never Knew”
18 Nice Boys – “Johnny Guitar”
19 31Knots – “Sanctify”
20 White Rainbow – “Mystic Prism”
21 The Shaky Hands – “Soul”