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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.