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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”