PDX Pop Now! Announcements

Sunday = Final Day of PDX Pop Now! 2008

2008-07-27T04:37:59-08:00

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

2008-07-25T17:47:57-08:00

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.

Listen to the Festival Live Online

2008-07-25T14:33:33-08:00

Can’t make it down to Rotture this weekend? Planning to head home for a quick break between sets? You can still hear every minute of PDX Pop Now! Festival partner KPSU will be streaming live on their website as will PRA. PRA will also be making audio available in their PRA Events podcast.

IT'S GAME TIME!

2008-07-25T00:01:37-08:00

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We’ll see you at 6pm at Rotture (315 SE 3rd).

Be there or be…actually, just be there.

One Day Until PDX Pop Now! 2008

2008-07-24T02:20:09-08:00

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:

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

2008-07-21T02:23:28-08:00

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

2008-07-18T03:00:00-08:00

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

2008-07-11T13:09:15-08:00

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

2008-06-18T13:29:28-08:00

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!

PDX Pop Now! 2008 CD Release Party & Benefit

2008-06-03T08:07:29-08:00

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 .

2008 Compilation, Festival Dates & Venue Announced

2008-05-12T14:18:28-08:00

We’re incredibly pleased to announce some juicy details about this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival and compilation.

For starters, our FREE, ALL AGES festival will take place July 25-27 at Rotture (roh-TUR-ay), a live music venue located in Portland’s inner Southeast industrial district. Rotture inhabits the space formerly occupied by former venues Loveland and Meow Meow, home to our first three festivals, and we’re delighted to be returning there for our fifth anniversary. As with last year’s event at Audiocinema, one stage will be inside (in Rotture’s large downstairs room) while the second will be located outdoors in the street, furthering the festival’s inclusive, block-party vibe.

As always, the festival will feature nearly 50 of Portland’s finest bands, and just to whet your appetite, here’s a brief initial lineup:

The Builders & The Butchers * New Bloods * Panther * Starfucker * Atole SubArachnoid Space * Reporter * Argumentix * Meth Teeth * Guidance Counselor World’s Greatest Ghosts * Y La Bamba * Hutch & Kathy of The Thermals (tentative)

Many more artists are still to be announced; please check our schedule page for updates.

PDX Pop Now! 2008, our fifth 2-disc compilation of Portland music, will be available for purchase for a quite economical $8 starting Tuesday, June 17, at Portland-area retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Previously unreleased tracks from Portland artists Faux Hoax (the new project from Danny Seim of Menomena, Dave Allen of Gang of Four and John Askew), Blitzen Trapper, YACHT, The Joggers, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers, Yellow Swans, Au and Pink Martini highlight the 40-track collection, which features additional gems from local favorites Chromatics, Valet, New Bloods, Panther, Sandpeople and more. We also extended an open invitation to our city’s musicians to submit music for consideration for the album, and selections culled from the work submitted by more than 400 artists round out the album, which, in a display of Portland’s tremendous musical diversity, features genres from indie rock, laptop-pop and hip hop to folk, ambient, psychedelia, jazz, noise, and metal. Visit our CD page to see the full tracklisting.

OLCC VOTES YES!!!!!!!!

2008-04-18T12:53:18-08:00

In a unanimous 4-0 vote on Friday, April 18 (with Commissioner Fisker not in attendance and therefore in abstention), the Oregon Liquor Control Commission voted to amend their Minor Postings rules, thereby making more all-ages concerts and other cultural events possible in Oregon.

This is a huge victory for musicians, artists, communities and, most importantly, young people.

Now get out there and encourage your favorite venues to get a Minor VI posting so they can make your favorite bands’ shows open to people of all-ages!

The PDX Pop Now! OLCC page will be updated soon with more information, but for now, let’s celebrate.

OLCC Minor Postings Vote on Friday

2008-04-15T17:21:25-08:00

All-Ages Music Update Update:

The OLCC will be making its final decision on the Minor Postings issue this coming Friday, April 18 at 9am.

The meeting will be held in room 103A at the OLCC headquarters at 9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Portland, OR, 97222.

If adopted, the proposed changes to the OLCC’s Minor Postings rules will allow for more all-ages concerts in environments deemed appropriate for minors, a major victory for Oregonians of all ages who believe in the power of the arts to engage and empower young people in constructive ways, and to build stronger, more vibrant communities.

The session is open to the public, and there will be a brief window prior to the vote open for short public testimony. If you would like to speak, it is important to sign up when you arrive and to keep your comments focused, positive, responsible and cordial.

Remember, this issue is fundamentally about access to arts and culture for young people, so speaking to the benefits of safe, fun, regulated recreational options for teenagers in an inclusive environment is the way to go.

Here goes nothin’!

For more information, see:
www.pdxpopnow.com/olcc

Last Call for Festival Requests!

2008-04-02T11:03:46-08:00

If you haven’t yet told us which bands you’d like to see perform at this year’s festival, you’d better act fast: the requests deadline is Tuesday, April 8.

Visit our Requests Page to make your preferences known. Feel to free to make as many requests as you like – just make them soon.

Compilation Submissions Deadline Extended to March 7

2008-03-03T11:49:07-08:00

Due to popular demand and to allow musicians some extra time to put the finishing touches on those mixes they didn’t quite complete by the original February 29 cut-off, we’re extending the deadline for submissions for our 2008 compilation to this Friday, March 7.

We’ve received a thrilling volume of submissions so far and hope that by extending the deadline we’ll be able to put together an even more consistent and inclusive compilation.

Submission forms, detailed submission guidelines and more information on the compilation album are available on our CD page.

And don’t forget that we’re now taking requests for the 2008 festival and that you could help make exciting changes to current OLCC rules concerning all-ages access to music.

We're Now Taking Requests for 2008 Festival

2008-02-21T20:36:13-08:00

We’re now taking artist and band requests for PDX Pop Now! 2008. Visit our Requests page and tell us which Portland and Portland-area acts you’d like to see perform at this year’s festival and maybe even help us learn about some undiscovered or under-recognized local music gems. We’re looking for artists from all the genres comprising our city’s vibrant and varied music community – folk and rock, country and hip hop, jazz and electronic and so forth. We promise to research and listen to every band requested, as always, so every request counts.

Last year, we received nearly 20,000 requests from 3,000 individuals for 1,600 Portland-area artists and bands, easily a record number for us and one we hope you’ll help us break this year.

In other news, we’re still accepting submissions for our 2008 compilation of Portland music. Area musicians have until Friday, February 29, to submit original works for consideration. Guidelines and a downloadable submission form are available on our CD page.

OLCC Round 2 - Email Now In Support of All-Ages Music

2008-02-14T00:16:22-08:00

THE BAD NEWS: The proposal to change the OLCC’s rules to allow more music venues to hold all-ages shows was voted down 3-2 in December, 2007.

THE GREAT NEWS: WE HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE. The OLCC is considering a nearly identical rule change right now. Write in now to express your support for this important and carefully drafted proposal.

We put together a boilerplate email that you can sign your name to and send in if you don’t have time to write your own. Find that email and tons more information about this issue on our website’s OLCC page.

Even if you already wrote the OLCC back in 2007, you must write again for your comments to be considered this time around.

The deadline to write in is Friday, March 7, 2008.

Click here to send our pre-written email to the OLCC.

The OLCC commissioners will take your opinions into account when they vote on this matter in mid-April, 2008.

This could not be more important to our local music community and the young people who want to be a part of it.

Write your letter now. Send it to the OLCC Rules Coordinator: Jennifer.Huntsman@state.or.us

New PDX Pop Now! Logo, Web Design for 2008

2008-02-02T14:32:05-08:00

As you’ve undoubtedly noticed, looking around this page, we’ve got a new logo and design for our website this year. The art comes courtesy of the locally-based and nationally-celebrated design virtuoso Emek, who’s been referred to as “the thinking man’s poster artist.” To learn more about Emek – whom Billboard Magazine recently credited with creating some of the best rock posters of all time – please visit our artists page and Emek’s own website.

Volunteer Meeting - Tuesday, January 29, Backspace

2008-01-22T00:45:47-08:00

For those of you who’d like to be a part of PDX Pop Now!, here’s your chance to hop on board. We’re going to hold our first volunteer meeting of the year on Tuesday, January 29, at Backspace, the downtown Portland arcade and entertainment mecca. Our volunteer coordinator and several board members will be on hand to talk about opportunities available in booking, staging, sponsorship, hospitality, promotions, and other areas of the PDX Pop Now! organization.

PDX Pop Now! Volunteer Meeting
7 p.m.
Tuesday, January 29
Backspace
115 NW 5th Avenue

If you can’t make this meeting, don’t despair – there will be others. If you have questions or would like to learn about future meetings and volunteer opportunities, please write our volunteer coordinator.

We hope to see you at Backspace!

Submissions Now Open for 2008 Compilation

2008-01-05T11:51:56-08:00

We’re now accepting music submissions for the fifth annual PDX Pop Now! compilation. (And let me be the first to say, happy 5-Year Anniversary to us!) So, Portland and Portland-area musicians, if you’ve got a gem of a song you know would be perfect for our latest and (hopefully) greatest collection and would like to submit it for consideration, here’s what you do:

1. Download the compilation submission form.
2. Print and thoroughly and legibly complete the form.
3. Mail the completed form and a disc with your track (CD-quality, non-compressed audio files only, please) to:

PDX Pop Now!
P.O. Box 14828
Portland, OR 97214

The submission deadline is February 29. We’re looking for original material only – no covers – and for work from a diverse array of genres. “Pop” may be in our name but we’re open to all the types of music comprising our vibrant and varied community, so PDX artists in all styles, please send us your goods.

*A special note for hip hop and electronic artists: please make certain all relevant audio samples in your submissions have been legally cleared.

Direct any questions regarding submissions and the compilation here. Good luck, and we look forward to listening to what you’ve got.

OLCC All-Ages Vote Thursday Morning

2007-12-11T04:26:55-08:00

This is it! The exciting conclusion to our all-ages reform campaign! Show up to the OLCC vote Thursday and make your support for all-ages music known!

The OLCC commissioners will be convening at 9am on Thursday, December 13 to vote on the proposed changes to the Minor Postings rules. The vote is open to the public and will take place at OLCC Headquarters (9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222-7355).

If you need a ride to the vote, a carpool will be meeting and leaving at 8:30am at the Musicians Union (325 NE 20th Portland, OR 97232). We would love to have a strong showing to demonstrate our enthusiasm and support for these changes.

If approved, these changes will make more all-ages music venues in Oregon viable by allowing minors and alcohol in the same establishment, provided proper control and regulation are in place to keep liquor out of kids’ hands. This would have a profoundly positive effect on all aspects of our state’s youth and music communities.

Let’s fix this nonsense together!

Thursday, December 13
9am
OLCC Headquarters
9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd.
Portland, OR 97222-7355

Carpool from Musicians Union
8:30am
325 NE 20th
Portland, OR 97232

DEADLINE: OLCC All-Ages Reform

2007-11-12T02:48:34-08:00

Just a reminder that Tuesday, November 13 at 5pm is the deadline for submitting feedback to the OLCC about their proposed rule changes that would allow music venues and other art spaces to admit minors and still sell alcohol (i.e. stay in business). Send your emails in support of the changes to: jennifer.hunstman@state.or.us

For more information on this issue, or to see a sample email, check out www.pdxpopnow.com/olcc

Opening more music and cultural events to people under 21 is the right thing to do for young people, local musicians, venues, and our community as a whole.

These emails will play an absolutely critical role in the OLCC’s ultimate decision to adopt or reject the proposed changes, so take a minute to write in today.

Additionally, in an effort to provide the young people of Portland with an opportunity to speak for themselves on this matter, the Multnomah Youth Commission is holding a public forum to accept testimony on the proposed OLCC changes
from 4-5:30pm
on Monday, November 12
at Portland City Hall in Council Chambers (1221 SW 4th Ave.).
All are welcome to attend, but priority will be given to those under 21.
Spread the word!

Support The OLCC's All-Ages Music Reforms

2007-10-26T15:09:54-08:00

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission is currently considering making changes to its rules that would allow music venues and other art spaces to both admit minors and sell alcohol. This would greatly increase access to live music for people under 21—a tremendously positive development for Oregon’s music communities, benefitting kids, bands, businesses and the public welfare alike.

Take a minute to send an email to the OLCC before November 13 expressing your support for these rule changes. All the info you need – as well as our sample email – is at our website’s new OLCC page.

Let’s take a stand for all-ages music in Oregon!

2007 Blog, Video, and Photo Coverage

2007-08-08T14:22:40-08:00

Thanks to all the bands, volunteers, sponsors, and, above all, everyone who came out to see some great Portland music for making this the best PDX Pop Now! yet! Below, you’ll find links to the Urban Honking live blogging coverage of the festival.

Courtesty of Tables Turned and PRA, you can also subscribe to a feed of audio from all PDX Pop Now! 2007 sets to download. We should have video coming soon as well. In the meantime, you can see some of the action captured on YouTube and in our Flickr group.

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

The Home Stretch

2007-08-05T11:08:05-08:00

This is it, the third and final day of PDX Pop Now! 2007 (noon – 1 am at AudioCinema), so get yourself down to the festival and check out the nearly 20 incredible acts we’ve got on the lineup.

DAY 3: Sunday, August 5

Outside
12:00-12:30: The Sort Ofs
12:40-1:10: Libretto
1:20-1:50: Here Comes a Big Black Cloud

Inside
2:05-2:35: Bright Red Paper
2:45-3:15: Kele Goodwin
3:20-3:55: Gejius

Outside
4:10-4:40: Ape Shape
4:50-5:20: Blue Skies for Black Hearts
5:30-6:00: System and Station

Inside
6:15-6:45: Blue Cranes
6:55-7:25: The Robot Ate Me
7:35-8:05: Laura Gibson

Outside
8:20-8:50: Nice Boys
9:00-9:30: Dat’r
9:40-10:10: The Shaky Hands

Inside
10:25-10:55: Evolutionary Jass Band
11:05-11:35: Yellow Swans
11:45-12:15: Sandpeople
12:25-12:55: Blitzen Trapper

Almost as good as being there

2007-08-04T21:52:49-08:00

Can’t make it to PDX Pop Now!? Don’t live in Portland? Now, you too can follow along with all the local music action. Thanks to local blog ring Urban Honking, we’re Blogging the Sh*t Out of PDX Pop Now! 2007.

Also, for the geeks out there, you can follow pdxpopnow’s updates on twitter.

Stuck in the Middle with You

2007-08-04T10:22:03-08:00

Now on to Day 2 of this year’s PDX Pop Now! Festival (noon – 1 am at AudioCinema), where we’ll offer up, oh, just another 19 of this town’s hottest music acts for your delectation.

DAY 2: Saturday, August 4

Outside
12:00-12:30: The Pink Snowflakes
12:40-1:10: Hurah Hurah
1:20-1:50: The Vonneguts

Inside
2:05-2:35: Dragging an Ox through Water
2:45-3:15: Corrina Repp and Tu Fawning
3:25-3:55: Gulls

Outside
4:10-4:40: AristeiA
4:50-5:20: The Soda Pop Kids
5:30-6:00: Point Juncture, WA

Inside
6:15-6:45: Per Se
6:55-7:25: Ethan Rose
7:35-8:05: Starfucker

Outside
8:20-8:50: The Maybe Happening
9:00-9:30: Swim Swam Swum
9:40-10:10: Hungry Mob

Inside
10:25-10:55: The Ocean Floor
11:05-11:35: Black Elk
11:45-12:15: Copy
12:25-12:55: The Snuggle Ups

Please check our schedule page to see what Sunday will bring, and we’ll see you at AudioCinema!

Ready to Pop?

2007-08-02T22:56:31-08:00

Like that fellow up and to your left, this party’s about to blow up! Some of you may have to race from work or home, we know, to catch the beginning of the 2007 PDX Pop Now! Festival (Friday, August 3rd, 6 pm at AudioCinema), but we promise it’ll be worth your while. Typhoon, which Casey Jarman describes as “a tight-knit choir of kids that sounds an awful lot like its name” in his excellent Willamette Week preview of this year’s event, should start the festivities off with a roar.

From there, we’re afraid, things will not let up. We’ve also got The Blow, the March Fourth Marching Band, Braille, Hey Lover, and plenty more hot bands in the queue for Day 1, a fantastic start for a festival The Portland Mercury calls “the reason why the rest of the country is envious of Portland.” (Hey, who are we to argue?)

DAY 1: Friday, August 3

Inside
6:00-6:30: Typhoon
6:40-7:10: The High Violets
7:20-7:50: Hooliganship

Outside
8:05-8:35: Pocket Parade
8:45-9:15: The Beauty
9:25-9:55: Junkface

Inside
10:10-10:40: The Blow
10:50-11:20: Braille
11:30-12:00: Hey Lover
12:10-12:40: March Fourth Marching Band

Please check our schedule page to see what Saturday and Sunday hold in store, and we’ll see you at AudioCinema!

Complete 2007 Festival Lineup Announced

2007-07-20T01:31:43-08:00

As we’ve already let slip, The Blow, The Shaky Hands, and Blitzen Trapper head the lineup at this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival, and now we’re ready to reveal all the incredible acts that’ll be joining them at AudioCinema (August 3-5, lest ye forget) on the nearly 50-band bill.

Click here for the full lineup and schedule.

Old Time Relijun & More to Rock
2nd Annual PDX Pop Now! City Hall Show

2007-07-17T01:13:41-08:00

We know you’re all eagerly awaiting word on the full lineup for this year’s festival, and we promise we’ll have it soon. In the meantime, check this out:

For the second year in a row, PDX Pop Now! and Portland City Hall team up to bring local rock downtown – right to the steps of City Hall itself. This special, early-evening show – which city government officials will kick off with welcoming comments – features art-punk Americana deconstructionists Old Time Relijun, improvisational trio The Watery Graves and an additional act to be announced.

The concert will showcase for the downtown population one of the city’s greatest resources – its music – and serve as an early inauguration of sorts for our Fourth Annual PDX Pop Now! Music Festival. It will also highlight Creative Capacity, the city government’s effort to forge Portland’s creative community into an effective advocacy group.

PDX Pop Now! and Portland City Hall Present:

Old Time Relijun | The Watery Graves

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Outdoors in front of Portland City Hall
1221 SW Fourth Ave.
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
FREE – ALL AGES

Hope to see you there!

The Blow, The Shaky Hands, Blitzen Trapper,
And Many More To Rock 2007 Festival

2007-06-19T19:34:17-08:00

We’re far from having our entire 2007 festival booked just yet, but as you’re about to see from our initial lineup, we’re off to a pretty good start. Our fourth annual FREE, ALL AGES, three-day event – August 3-5, 2007, at AudioCinema – will feature 40+ Portland bands, including:

The Blow
The Shaky Hands
Blitzen Trapper
The Robot Ate Me
Laura Gibson
Yellow Swans
Ethan Rose
Nice Boys
March Fourth Marching Band
Copy
Dat’r
Sandpeople
Point Juncture, WA
Black Elk
Corrina Repp
The High Violets
The Maybe Happening
Hurah Hurah
The Snuggle Ups (in one of their final performances)

Many more artists are still to be announced; please check our schedule page for updates.

And don’t forget: PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fabulous fourth 2-CD compilation of Portland music, is now available for purchase for just $7 at Portland-area record stores and online at CD Baby.

2007 Compilation Available June 19th

2007-06-11T14:46:28-08:00

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”

CD Release Party Friday, June 8 at the
Hawthorne Theatre

2007-06-06T23:48:39-08:00

To celebrate the release of PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fourth compilation of Portland music, we’re going to host an evening of eclectic and exciting entertainment at the Hawthorne Theatre on June 8th with a show that includes the rousing hip hop band Hungry Mob, industrial noise experimentalists The Better to See You With, electro-R&B and rock outfit Strength, and buzz-generating high school pop sensations The Hugs. Performers from the breakdancing battle series Ashes 2 Ashes, a DJ (still TBA), and a raffle with some fabulous prizes figure in to the festivities as well.

We’re also pleased to announce that for the first time, our CD release party – like our festivals – will be open to people of ALL AGES.

As always, a copy of the compilation is included with the $6 admission. The release party, though, will be the only opportunity you’ll have to pick up the compilation until it becomes available at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby on Tuesday, June 19, at the slightly higher – but still darn economical – price of $7.

PDX Pop Now! 2007 CD Release Party
Friday, June 8, 2007
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 233-7100
8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show
$6 | All Ages

To sum up: June 8, Hawthorne Theatre, pop, hip hop, noise, disco, breakdancers, ALL AGES, a bar if you’re of age, awesome raffle prizes, and your chance to pick up the comp a week and a half early for a buck cheaper. Yep, we’ll see you there.

Missing Teenage Musician

2007-06-06T23:47:15-08:00

We received sad news today from the Portland Musicians Union.

A 15 year-old male musician named JonCarlos Adley disappeared last Friday, June 1. He was heading up to Seattle from Southern California, ostensibly to play a gig in Seattle, and was last seen in Vacaville, CA.

JonCarlos was wearing a black t-shirt with Rolling Stones lips and tongue graphic, blue jeans, black Adidas tennis shoes w/ white stripes, may be wearing black hat with white VMC.

He may be driving a cream-colored 2003 SAAB, License # 5EEW682

f you have any information regarding this missing person, please contact the Vacaville police: (707) 449-5200

Let’s look out for a fellow music-lover.

CD Release Party June 8 at the
Hawthorne Theatre

2007-05-23T21:02:18-08:00

We’re also pleased to announce that for the first time, our CD release party – like our festivals – will be open to people of ALL AGES.

PDX Pop Now! 2007 CD Release Party
Friday, June 8, 2007
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 233-7100
8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show
$6 | All Ages

PDX Pop Now! 2007 Compilation Tracklisting

2007-05-23T17:01:44-08:00

Have we got a musical feast in store for you with the release of PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fourth compilation of Portland music and, we believe, our most diverse offering yet. The two-disc collection, a rich – though by no means exhaustive – sampling of our city’s vibrant music community, 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.

PDX Pop Now! 2007 will first be for sell Friday, June 8, at our cd release party at the Hawthorne Theatre (more details shortly). After that, the compilation will be available for purchase at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby on Tuesday, June 19.

And, without further adieu, the tracklisting:

DISC 1

DISC 2

2007 Festival: August 3-5 at AudioCinema

2007-05-09T11:06:16-08:00

We’re extremely pleased to announce that the Fourth Annual PDX Pop Now! Festival will be held August 3-5 at AudioCinema, an incredible arts and performance space in the inner SE Portland warehouse district near the Hawthorne Bridge and a self-described “factory for art, music, and dreams” which will help us realize our dream once again of showcasing some of the city’s finest bands.

As always, the festival will be completely FREE, open to people of ALL AGES, and feature upwards of 50 of your favorite Portland acts, but, for the first time, half of the event will take place outside. That’s right: one of our two stages will be open air!

Please check back for updates on the lineup.

PDX Pop Now! Bringing Local Music Stars
to Middle School

2007-04-28T16:49:13-08:00

In what we hope will be just the first of many such events, PDX Pop Now! has arranged for a diverse group of spectacular local musicians to perform a special show at Parkrose Middle School. On May 4, students qualifying for “Re-leaf” – the school’s incentive program for homework completion – will be treated to an afternoon of topnotch tunes from rising-star jangle-poppers The Shaky Hands, rocksteady emcee Syndel, soulful folkstress Alela Diane, and positive rapper Soul P..

Now, we know this a fantastic bill, but only “Re-leaf” eligible students (about 2/3 of the Parkrose student body), members of the press, and reps from other local music organizations like the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, Old Library Studio and Spun Academy – who will be on hand to fill the kids in on some great music programs – will be allowed to attend. Prior to the concert, the performers will also participate in classes including Band, Choir, and Language Arts, and will speak to the students about their music backgrounds and experiences, the creative process, the music business and the Portland music community, etc..

As Cary Clarke (PDX Pop Now! board member and Parkrose English Language Learners teacher) says of the show, “How cool would you have thought it was if some amazing bands and musicians had come to your middle school, hung out with you, and ended the day with a concert. I know I would have felt differently about my education.”

PDX Pop Now! is sincerely proud and excited to take this step towards connecting local musicians and local kids, some of whom just may become the future stars of Portland music.

Requests Closed - Record Number Made
for 2007 Festival!

2007-04-21T15:22:44-08:00

The polls are closed – so to speak – and now we begin poring over the results: between our online requests page and request boxes placed around town, we received nearly 20,000 requests for bands to play this year’s festival, more than double the number placed last year. Thanks to all of you who took the time to tell us which artists you’d like to see perform.

We’ve already begun researching and listening to the bands requested – it looks like 1,000 at least – so please check back for announcements about the lineup to see which acts you’ll have helped us select for the festival.

Request a Band for the 2007 Festival

2007-03-16T01:58:07-08:00

Here’s your chance to have a say in who will perform at this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival. Tell us which Portland acts – folk or metal, electronic or strictly acoustic, internationally-renowned or known only to a few – you’d like to see play. And don’t think your request doesn’t matter; we research and listen to every band suggested, so every request counts. Make yours now.

Volunteer Now! - First Meeting March 13

2007-03-05T15:10:38-08:00

Want to be a part of PDX Pop Now! and help us put on this town’s premier DIY music festival? You’ll have your chance when we hold the year’s first volunteer meeting on Tuesday, March 13. Our volunteer coordinator and several board members will be on hand to talk about opportunities available in booking, staging, sponsorship, hospitality, promotions, and other areas of the PDX Pop organization.

PDX Pop Now! Volunteer Meeting
Tuesday, March 13
7 p.m.
Tiny’s Coffee – Hawthorne
1412 SE 12th Avenue

If you have any questions or can’t make this meeting but are still interested in getting involved, drop our volunteer coordinator a line.

Thanks, and we hope to see you at TIny’s!

Requests for the 2007 Festival now open

2007-03-05T14:55:19-08:00

It’s an exciting day around here!

We’ve started taking requests for this year’s festival. Got a great band that not enough people know about? Itching to see your favorite act at this year’s fest? Let us know!

Also, don’t forget that today’s the last day to submit a track for this year’s compilation, so get those great songs in. (See below for details.)

And finally, the sharper eyed amongst you may have noticed that things are looking a little different around here. This sharp new look is courtesy of local designer Dan Stiles who’ll also be putting together the album art for this year’s compilation, and generally guiding the pdxpop visual aesthetic this year.

One Week Left to Submit Music for 2007 Compilation

2007-01-31T00:35:13-08:00

Hey, all you Portland and Portland-area musicians and music makers: we’re accepting submissions for PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fourth double-disc compilation of PDX music, for just one more week. Monday, March 5 is the Submissions Deadline.

If you’d like to submit a track for consideration, just download, print, and completely and legibly fill out the 2007 Compilation Submission Form and mail it with a CD of your track to:

PDX Pop Now!
PO Box 14828
Portland, OR 97214

Please make certain that you also send us full CD-quality audio (no mp3 files please) and original material (no covers).

And we know that “Pop” may be in our name, but we welcome all types of music: rock, folk, punk, metal, hip hop, electronic and dance, jazz, experimental noise, psychedelia, lounge, country, anything and everything that makes up Portland’s rich music community.

Thanks, and we look forward to listening to what you shoot our way.

Snow So No Show

2007-01-16T15:58:49-08:00

Unfortunately, tonight’s screening of Before the Music Dies – presented by the NW Film Center and the Musicians’ Union – has been cancelled.

On the other hand, snow is awesome.

I’m told that the screening has been rescheduled for Feb. 3 @ 2pm. Check with either of the presenting organizations for more details.

Enjoy the white!

And use the day to finish up your submissions for the 2007 PDX Pop Now! compilation. Submission forms are available here.

Before the Music Dies

2007-01-14T02:07:58-08:00

As part of the Reel Music festival of music-related films currently taking place here in Portland under the aegis of the NW Film Center, a film exploring the current state of the music industry and its relationship to artistry called “Before the Music Dies” will be showing this coming Tuesday. The screening is co-sponsored by the good people over at our local Musician’s Union, and is a fund-raiser for the Music Education Assistance Project, which provides instrument lesson scholarships for financially strapped middle and high schoolers.

Sounds like a worthwhile event to us, but even more interest-piquing is the moderated discussion that will will take place immediately following the screening. Attendees will be encouraged to discuss the current state of our local music community here in Portland – what challenges we face, and how best to address them. We hope to see you there!

Before the Music Dies

Tuesday, January 16

7pm

Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum

1219 SW Park

P.S. Don’t forget to submit to the 2007 PDX Pop Now! compilation. Submissions are due March 5 and can be found here.

PDX Pop Now! Accepting Submissions for 2007 Compilation

2007-01-11T15:01:13-08:00

Hey, all you Portland and Portland-area musicians and music makers: we’re now accepting submissions for PDX Pop Now! 2007, our fourth double-disc compilation of PDX music.

If you’d like to submit a track for consideration, just download, print, and completely and legibly fill out the 2007 Compilation Submission Form and mail it with a CD of your track to:

PDX Pop Now!
PO Box 14828
Portland, OR 97214

Please make certain that you also send us:

- your stuff by our Submission Deadline – Monday, March 5
- full CD-quality audio – no mp3s folks
- original material – no covers

Thanks, and we look forward to listening to what you shoot our way.

PDX Pop Now! Announcements

Sunday = Final Day of PDX Pop Now! 2008

Live Blogging on Urban Honking

Listen to the Festival Live Online

IT'S GAME TIME!

One Day Until PDX Pop Now! 2008

Come Volunteer at the Festival

PPN! 08 Festival Schedule

Friday, July 25

Saturday, July 26

Sunday, July 27

PDX Pop Now! 2008 Line-Up

PDX Pop Now! Fundraiser @ Exit Only Tonight

PDX Pop Now! 2008 CD Release Party & Benefit

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

2008 Compilation, Festival Dates & Venue Announced

OLCC VOTES YES!!!!!!!!

OLCC Minor Postings Vote on Friday

All-Ages Music Update Update:

Last Call for Festival Requests!

Compilation Submissions Deadline Extended to March 7

We're Now Taking Requests for 2008 Festival

OLCC Round 2 - Email Now In Support of All-Ages Music

New PDX Pop Now! Logo, Web Design for 2008

Volunteer Meeting - Tuesday, January 29, Backspace

Submissions Now Open for 2008 Compilation

OLCC All-Ages Vote Thursday Morning

This is it! The exciting conclusion to our all-ages reform campaign! Show up to the OLCC vote Thursday and make your support for all-ages music known!

Thursday, December 13 9am OLCC Headquarters 9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222-7355 Carpool from Musicians Union 8:30am 325 NE 20th Portland, OR 97232

DEADLINE: OLCC All-Ages Reform

Support The OLCC's All-Ages Music Reforms

2007 Blog, Video, and Photo Coverage

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

The Home Stretch

Almost as good as being there

Stuck in the Middle with You

Ready to Pop?

Complete 2007 Festival Lineup Announced

Old Time Relijun & More to Rock 2nd Annual PDX Pop Now! City Hall Show

The Blow, The Shaky Hands, Blitzen Trapper, And Many More To Rock 2007 Festival

2007 Compilation Available June 19th

CD Release Party Friday, June 8 at the Hawthorne Theatre

Missing Teenage Musician

CD Release Party June 8 at the Hawthorne Theatre

PDX Pop Now! 2007 Compilation Tracklisting

2007 Festival: August 3-5 at AudioCinema

PDX Pop Now! Bringing Local Music Stars to Middle School

Requests Closed - Record Number Made for 2007 Festival!

Request a Band for the 2007 Festival

Volunteer Now! - First Meeting March 13

Requests for the 2007 Festival now open

One Week Left to Submit Music for 2007 Compilation

Snow So No Show

Before the Music Dies

PDX Pop Now! Accepting Submissions for 2007 Compilation

Thursday, December 13
9am
OLCC Headquarters
9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd.
Portland, OR 97222-7355

Carpool from Musicians Union
8:30am
325 NE 20th
Portland, OR 97232

Old Time Relijun & More to Rock
2nd Annual PDX Pop Now! City Hall Show

The Blow, The Shaky Hands, Blitzen Trapper,
And Many More To Rock 2007 Festival

CD Release Party Friday, June 8 at the
Hawthorne Theatre

CD Release Party June 8 at the
Hawthorne Theatre

PDX Pop Now! Bringing Local Music Stars
to Middle School

Requests Closed - Record Number Made
for 2007 Festival!