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July 25-27 at Rotture (315 SE 3rd Ave). Free. All-Ages. Tons of Portland Bands.

Check here for the schedule.

Listen to the festival live on KPSU and PRA

Buy the 2008 Comp

Buy the CD
PDX POP NOW!: 2008 Compilation CD
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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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Want to be a part of PDX Pop Now! 2008? Get in touch with our volunteer coordinator here.

Our Mission

PDX Pop Now! is dedicated to stimulating and expanding participation in Portland music. As an all-volunteer organization committed to being accessible, current, and local, we provide and support live performances and recorded materials. We aspire to advance a sustainable community which values inclusivity and a high caliber of artistry to enable a creative dialogue between artist and audience.

Festival Videos

Checkout videos of PDX Pop Now! events on YouTube.

Festival Photos

Here are some photos taken at past PDX Pop Now! festivals and events. If you have some you’d like to add, please chuck them into our Flickr group.

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DottedNote

PDX Pop Now! 2008 CD Release Party & Benefit

08:08AM on Tuesday June 03, 2008

Come join us to celebrate the release of the PDX Pop Now! 2008 compilation of Portland music

Thursday, June 12
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison)
ALL AGES
8pm
$10 gets you admission + a free copy of the double-disc compilation before it hits stores

The show:

YACHT
Fist Fite
Southern Belle
White Fang
DJ Manny Lennox

+ An Awesome Raffle including such delectable prizes as:
Studio Time at Jackpot Studios
Packages from Local Record Labels
Instruments from Local Stores
Yoga Gift Certificates
Hair Cuts
Hotel Stays
and more

Come out and support PDX Pop Now!, an all-volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to the local music community of Portland, OR. We need your help to be able to put on our free events, such as this summer’s fifth annual, free, all-ages, three-day PDX Pop Now! festival of local music.

The PDX Pop Now! 2008 double-disc compilation of local music includes 40 tracks of to-drawer local music, much of which is unreleased or hard-to-find. The tracklist is:
PDX Pop Now! 2008

DISC 1
01 Au – “Are Animals”

02 Blue Cranes – “S.T.I.L.L.”

03 Meth Teeth – “Unemployment Forever”

04 The Joggers – “Golden Wage”

05 A Weather – “Spiders, Snakes”

06 New Bloods – “Oh, Deadly Nightshade!”

07 Portland Cello Project feat. Heather Broderick – “For Misty”

08 Copacrescent – “Do My Thing”

09 Y La Bamba – “Fasting in San Francisco”

10 Valet – “We Went There”

11 Strength – “Wilderness”

12 Swim Swam Swum – “Not in Your Way”

13 Andy Combs and The Moth – “Let’s Ride”

14 Still Pending – “Drivin’ to California”

15 Yellow Swans – “Velvet Water”

16 Kelli Schaefer – “Lasso the Moon”

17 Nick Caceres – “The Victorian Hoedown”

18 Blitzen Trapper – “Crushing the Wheat”

19 Sandpeople – “The Count”

20 Panther – “Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips and Ribs Remix)”


DISC 2

01 Devin Phillips – “Frenchmen Street Strut”

02 Bodhi – “Nadine”

03 SubArachnoid Space – “Honorable Mention”

04 Fist Fite – “Grandma Surprise”

05 Braille – “The IV”

06 Eliot Rose – “Brightness and the Blood”

07 Pseudosix – “Apathy & Excess”

08 Horse Feathers – “Road to Ruin”

09 Hey Lover – “She’s the Girl for Me”

10 Dragging an Ox Through Water – “Houses & Homonculi”

11 Southern Belle – “Sunnyside”

12 Pink Martini – “Hey Eugene (Watch Your Back)”

13 YACHT – “Ring the Bell (Premix)”

14 Living Proof feat. Liv Warfield – “Sky High City (Bluebird)”

15 Faux Hoax – “Foxworthy”

16 JonnyX and the Groadies – “Castle/Face”

17 The Woodlands – “Until the Day Dims”

18 Chromatics – “Night Drive”

19 Talkdemonic – “Silvertone”

20 Guidance Counselor – “Pull Over”

You can also order this year’s, and all past, installments of the PDX Pop Now! compilation through CDBaby .

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