2008logo

Art by EMEK.

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
click to pre-order


Get it online from CD Baby or at record stores around Portland such as Music Millenium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music, and many more!

Online Friendliness

Follow our updates on Twitter: twitter.com/pdxpopnow

Friend us on MySpace

Friend us on Facebook

Join our mailing list

If you’d like to hear about PDX Pop news and events, sign up for our mailing list by sending your email address to: announcements (at) pdxpopnow (dot) com

Volunteer

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.

T-Shirts

Click here for t-shirts! Whee!

DottedNote

PDX Pop Now! Accepting Submissions for 2009 Compilation, Awarded RACC Grant

03:03AM on Tuesday January 06, 2009

Listen up, Portland-area musicians, because we’re ready to listen to you. PDX Pop Now! has just opened submissions for PDX Pop Now! 2009, our sixth double-disc compilation of local music.

We’ve made it easier than ever for artists to submit music for consideration, a process which begins by visiting the submissions page. While you can still choose to snail mail CDs our way, you now have the option of making a submission with the click of a button, as an incredibly simple mp3 upload. So, area musicians, you have even less of a reason to procrastinate; go check out the guidelines and make your submissions now.

As always, we’re open to and looking for all the styles and genres that make up our wonderful local music community.

In other news, PDX Pop Now! was recently awarded a $5,770 project grant from the metro area’s Regional Arts and Culture Council. We’re grateful to the Council for the funds, which will be used to stage the 2009 festival. The award follows the professional development grant PDX Pop Now! received from RACC last year.

Lastly, Dylan McConnell – a local artist and designer who’s created a number of memorable posters for shows around town, album art for the likes of Ethan Rose and Blues Cranes, and websites for folks such as China Forbes and Sub Pop spin-off Hardly Art – will serve as the official artist for PDX Pop Now! 2009.

Help Book PDX Pop Now! 2009

09:21PM on Sunday January 04, 2009

The sixth annual PDX Pop Now! Festival of Portland Music is slated to take place in the summer of 2009. As always, the festival will be a free, all-ages, multi-day, non-profit celebration featuring nearly 50 local bands, emcees, laptop wizards, singer-songwriters, noise-mongers, chamber ensembles, crews, audio experimentalists and as-yet-unnamed varieties of musician.

The line-up will be determined by a dedicated committee of music lovers willing to lend their time, energy, thought and enthusiasm to putting together the most mind-bogglingly exciting and stylistically diverse bill of Portland music the world has yet seen. Interested in being one of them?

No prior experience in booking or event production is required to be a PPN! Booking Committee volunteer. Responsibility, ability to work well with a group, passion for music, and a belief in the value of local culture and community, on the other hand, are at a premium.

The booking committee will meet approximately once every other week for two hours at a time, beginning in early 2009. Members should expect to spend one to two hours of additional time each week on their own attending to booking committee affairs.

If you are interested in being part of the PDX Pop Now! 2009 booking team, please send an email to booking (at) pdxpopnow (dot) com before January 12, 2009 with your name, contact information and brief answers to the following questions:

How many shows do you see in an average month? How many of those feature primarily local bands?

What was the best performance by a Portland musician or musical group you saw in the past 3 months? What made it stand out?

If you were putting together a show featuring five local bands, what would your ideal bill be? Why?

What values do you think the PPN! Booking committee should observe in curating the line-up of the 2009 festival?

Have you volunteered with PDX Pop Now! before? If so, when and in what capacity?

Reply to: booking (at) pdxpopnow (dot) com

Rock 'n Shop Today!

10:22PM on Friday December 12, 2008

How would you like to get some holiday shopping done while simultaneously supporting local music?




If your answer was along the lines of “I would very much like that,” then come out to Rock’n Shop on Saturday, December 13 from 3pm til late. 24 of Portland’s independent record labels will be peddling their wares as a gaggle of local bands play live at Slabtown. Best of all it’s free (but sadly not all-ages)!




PDX Pop Now! will be out in full force all day selling the past 5 years of our compilations, the DVD and sundry other goodies. Plus you can sign up as a volunteer to help us plan PDX Pop Now! 2009.



Rock’n Shop

@ Slabtown (1033 NW 16th Ave.)

Saturday, December 13

3pm til late

Free

21+ (Sorry! Not our event.)



Participating labels:

PDX Pop Now!, Hovercraft, King of Hearts, Green Noise, The Union, Sohitek, Jealous Butcher, Crash Assailant, Boy Gorilla, In Music We Trust, Begining Era, Dirtnap, Kill Rock Stars, Felony Fidelity, Extra Ball, Tender Loving Empire, States Rights, Reverb, Magic Marker, Marriage, Bladen County, Discouraged, Regional Hits, People In A Position To Know




Live Music

starting at 6pm

(in order of appearance)

Drats

Southerly

Mean Jeans

White Fang

Gratitluim

Plankton Beat

Hey Lover

DoublePlus Good

New York Rifles

Wow and Flutter

Sunday = Final Day of PDX Pop Now! 2008

04:04AM on Sunday July 27, 2008

It’s been a beautiful weekend of Portland music, and, alas, there is but one more day.

We’ll greet you Sunday, July 27 at noon when Wooden Indian Burial Ground kick off Day 3, and we’ll waive to you as you leave that night after New Bloods put PPN!08 to bed.

Meanwhile, don’t forget about our PPN! flickr group, twitter, Urban Honking liveblogging, live PRA/KPSU stream and podcasting, facebook, myspace etc. all of which I am too tired to link to here, but are noted elsewhere on this page.

Til the morrow!

Live Blogging on Urban Honking

05:17PM on Friday July 25, 2008

Yet another way to get real-time updates about the festival beyond following our Twitter account or listening to either of the radio streams (see the sidebar) is to read the PDX Pop Now! 2008 live blog on Urban Honking. We’ll be posting pictures and descriptions throughout the weekend. Feel free to dive in with your comments and observations as well.

PDX Pop Now! P.O. Box 14828 Portland, OR 97214 pdxpopnow.com 2008 :: Some Rights Reserved