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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.

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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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One Day Until PDX Pop Now! 2008

02:02AM on Thursday July 24, 2008

One day and it’s showtime! Needless to say, smiles are getting wider at PPN! headquarters, and our pulses are quickening…

A few notes:

1) If you are interested in volunteering for the festival and haven’t been in touch yet, come out to the last volunteer orientation meeting:

Thursday, July 24
5pm
Backspace (115 NW 5th Ave.)

Email volunteer@pdxpopnow.com with any questions

2) Looks like we’re not the only ones psyched about this year’s festival lineup. Check out some of the recent press encouragement:

Local Cut

MTV

The Oregonian

Portland Mercury

Spin

The Vanguard

Willamette Week

Willamette Week pt. 2

3) Thanks to our radio partners at KPSU and PRA , every moment of music at the festival will be broadcast as a stream, and downloadable as a podcast (if all goes according to plan). That way, if ,for some ridiculous reason like having to work, you have to leave the festival, you won’t have to miss it completely. The links for those features are:

Stream
http://www.praradio.org/

Podcast
http://feeds.praradio.org/praevents

See you on Friday at Rotture (315 SE 3rd) at 6pm!

Come Volunteer at the Festival

02:02AM on Monday July 21, 2008

So excited about local music and the PDX Pop Now! 2008 festival that you can’t sit still? Put that energy to good use by volunteering at the festival!

We will be holding several volunteer meetings this week in the run-up to the festival, and we would love to see you there. We need help during the big weekend with all sorts of things, from band guiding, to stage managing, to greeting, to moving gear- no experience or skills of any kind necessary (though let us know if you’ve got some!).

The volunteer meetings will take place as follows:

Backspace (115 NW 5th Ave.)
Monday, July 21st, at 5 p.m
Wednesday, July 23rd, at 6 p.m
Thursday, July 24th, at 5 p.m.

Send an email to volunteer@pdxpopnow.com with any questions.

Hope to see you there!

And I hope you are as excited about the fest as we are.

PPN! 08 Festival Schedule

03:03AM on Friday July 18, 2008

All Sets In or Outside of Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave.

Friday, July 25

Inside

6:00 – 6:30: Love Menu

6:40 – 7:10: The Rainy States

7:20 – 7:50: Sleep

Outside

8:05 – 8:35: Tu Fawning

8:45 – 9:15: Guidance Counselor

9:25 – 9:55: Dykeritz

Inside

10:10 – 10:40: Panther

10:50 – 11:20: Nick Jaina

11:30 – 12:00: Devin Phillips Band

12:10 – 12:40: The Builders and the Butchers

Saturday, July 26

Outside

12:00 – 12:30: The Revisions

12:40 – 1:10: Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights

1:20 – 1:50: Swim Swam Swum

Inside

2:05 – 2:35: Y La Bamba

2:45 – 3:15: The Tenses

3:25 – 3:55: Andy Combs and the Moth

Outside

4:10 – 4:40: Sweater!

4:50 – 5:20: Bodhi

5:30 – 6:00: A Ghost’s Face Two Inches From Your Own Face

Inside

6:15 – 6:45: Eskimo and Sons

6:55 – 7:25: The SubArachnoid Space

7:35 – 8:05: Reporter

Outside

8:20 – 8:50: Nurses

9:00 – 9:30: Blind Pilot

9:40 – 10:10: Living Proof

Inside

10:25 – 10:55: Portland Cello Project

11:05 – 11:35: Loch Lomond

11:45 – 12:15: Atole

12:25 – 12:55: Starfucker

Sunday, July 27

Outside

12:00 – 12:30: Wooden Indian Burial Ground

12:40 – 1:10: World’s Greatest Ghosts

1:20 – 1:50: Meth Teeth

Inside

2:05 – 2:35: Podington Bear

2:45 – 3:15: Grouper

3:25 – 3:55: Mattress

Outside

4:10 – 4:40: Cower

4:50 – 5:20: Experimental Dental School

5:30 – 6:00: Bark Hide and Horn

Inside

6:15 – 6:45: A Weather

6:55 – 7:25: Dragging an Ox Through Water

7:35 – 8:05: JonnyX and the Groadies

Outside

8:20 – 8:50: Pure Country Gold

9:00 – 9:30: Eat Skull

9:40 – 10:10: White Fang

Inside

10:25 – 10:55: The Warfield Experience

11:05 – 11:35: Sandpeople

11:45 – 12:15: Norfolk & Western

12:25 – 12:55: New Bloods

PDX Pop Now! 2008 Line-Up

01:13PM on Friday July 11, 2008

We are so very, very pleased to announce the full line-up of the PDX Pop Now! 2008 festival of Portland music. This fifth annual installment of the festival will take place July 25-27 in inner SE Portland in the downstairs of Rotture (formerly Hippodrome/Loveland/Meow Meow) and on an outdoors stage on 3rd Ave. As always, the event will be free, open to people of all-ages, and our favorite weekend of the year! Without further ado, the line-up:

Andy Combs and the Moth
Atole
A Weather
Bark Hide and Horn
Blind Pilot
Bodhi
the Builders and the Butchers
Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights
Cower
Devin Phillips Band
Dragging an Ox Through Water
Dykeritz
Eat Skull
Eskimo and Sons
Experimental Dental School
A Ghost’s Face Two Inches From You Own Face
Grouper
Guidance Counselor
JonnyX and the Groadies
Living Proof
Loch Lomond
Love Menu
Mattress
Meth Teeth
New Bloods
Nick Jaina
Norfolk & Western
Nurses
Panther
Pure Country Gold
Podington Bear
the Portland Cello Project
the Rainy States
Reporter
the Revisions
Sandpeople
Sleep
Starfucker
the SubArachnoid Space
Sweater!
Swim Swam Swum
the Tenses
Tu Fawning
the Warfield Experience
White Fang
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
World’s Greatest Ghosts
Y La Bamba

PDX Pop Now! Fundraiser @ Exit Only Tonight

01:13PM on Wednesday June 18, 2008

Some kind-hearted, locality-loving Portland bands have been kind enough to make their show tonight a fundraiser for PDX Pop Now! Hope to see you there:
Wednesday, June 18
Exit Only (1121 N Loring)
8:45pm
$5-10 Sliding Scale
ALL AGES

STARFUCKER
GUIDANCE COUNSELOR
40 HUNDRED THOUSAND LOCKED-UP GUNS
MEGACHURCH

We will have the new PDX Pop Now! 2008 compilation there for your procurement. But of course!

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