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2010 PDX Pop Now! Festival

July 30 – August 1
Rotture (315 SE 3rd Ave, PDX)
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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.

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The 2010 Compilation

Available for purchase ($8) June 3, 2010 at local retail outlets and online. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and our outreach activities.

We hope you like it!


    Disc 1

  1. The Basics – Tope & Epp ft. Illmaculate
  2. No Nostalgia – AgesandAges**
  3. Oooh Kill Ooooh – Nucular Aminals
  4. Tange Rine – Deelay Ceelay**
  5. City Morgue – Kelli Schaefer
  6. Five Little Rooms – Menomena**
  7. El Ranchero Tejano – paper/upper/cuts**
  8. The Letters – Light for Fire**
  9. The Upheaval on Titan – JonnyX & the Groadies
  10. Never Again – Fruition
  11. My Hip Hop Is Breathing – Beyoung, Empire, Lost Poet, Mr. Flea
  12. Starting Over (Bad Habits) – Typhoon
  13. bodyblood – the angry orts**
  14. Bombast – Trio Subtonic
  15. Let This Body Go – Death Songs
  16. Steve Don’t Party No More – Mean Jeans
  17. Flatlands – Mike Coykendall
  18. Bad Buzz – The Mint Chicks
  19. Wet & Dripping – Aan
  20. Patient Heart – Sean Flinn & the Royal We

    Disc 2

  1. Mercenary Days – Hockey
  2. Boxcar Children – ioa
  3. Dalvik Tide – Ocean Age
  4. Hoop & Wire – Boy Eats Drum Machine
  5. Tramm – Breakfast Mountain**
  6. Sleep, Child – Nick Jaina
  7. Marianne – Strength**
  8. Only A Quality Lime for Eric Gruber – Andrew Oliver Sextet
  9. Look My Way – Blitzen Trapper**
  10. Don’t Look Down on Me – MY-G
  11. Pythia Misunderstood – Transient
  12. Battling Giants – Brainstorm
  13. Too Many Days Gone – Dharma Bums**
  14. Wide-Eyed, Legless – Laura Veirs
  15. Midcentury Motion – Talkdemonic**
  16. Pulling Weeds – The Great Mundane**
  17. Juniper – Y La Bamba**
  18. Peacock Dreams – Peacock Dreams
  19. See Waves – Nice Nice
  20. Giant Stairs – A Weather

**Previously Unreleased Tracks

The 2009 Compilation

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PDX Pop Now! is thrilled to announce the track list for the 2009 Compilation. As always, we feel that this compilation represents a variety of both new and well-know Portland artists. We hope you like it as much as we do!

The compilation will be released on June 4. The compilation will be available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.

Disc 1

  1. The Mint Chicks — Hot on Your Heels
  2. At Dusk — For A Reason
  3. aed & Quiet Countries — Moving Day
  4. M. Ward — For Beginners
  5. Luck-One and Dekk — The Coolax
  6. Dirty Mittens — The Dock
  7. Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson — Sun
  8. Third Angle New Music Ensemble performing Bryan Johanson — The Rat Catcher’s Dance
  9. The Thermals — You Dissolve
  10. Thrones — Trmph Lfe
  11. Mirah — Generosity
  12. Magic Johnson — Las Malas
  13. Chilly Willy — Grab and Glow
  14. Ravishers — Keep You Around
  15. Silentist — Hex
  16. Dykeritz — Chasing the Wheel Away
  17. Explode Into Colors — Paper (Hot Sax Version)
  18. The Cysts — Human Garbage
  19. Caleb Klauder — Can I Go Home with You
  20. Plankton Wat — Dawn of the Golden Eternity
  21. Chervona — Reality Show

Disc 2

  1. Jared Mees And The Grown Children — The Tallest Building In Hell
  2. What’s Up? — Seasoning’s Greeting
  3. Blue Skies for Black Hearts — Jenny and Steve
  4. Starfucker — Boy Toy
  5. Lightheaded — HardRock
  6. Grouper — Rising Height
  7. Lovers — Igloos For Ojos
  8. Sandpeople — Hate Aside
  9. Blue Giant — Target Heart
  10. Cootie Platoon — Divided
  11. Benoît Pioulard — Idyll
  12. Ah Holly Fam’ly — EIEIO
  13. Breakfast Mountain — J Hollerday
  14. Gejius — Let Down
  15. Tara Jane O’Neil — Dig In (ft The Ecstatic Tambourine Orchestra)
  16. MY-G — Take Back Our City (ft Liv Warfield)
  17. Bird Announced Land — Sweet Dreams
  18. Blue Cranes — Broken Windmills
  19. The Taxpayers — Black Batons

The 2008 Compilation

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This 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 and tantalizing bites from names you’ll probably want to get to know a lot better.

The compilation is available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.

Disc 1

  1. Au — Are Animals
  2. Blue Cranes — S.T.I.L.L.
  3. Meth Teeth — Unemployment Forever
  4. The Joggers — Golden Wage
  5. A Weather — Spiders, Snakes
  6. New Bloods — Oh, Deadly Nightshade!
  7. Portland Cello Project feat. Heather Broderick — For Misty
  8. Copacrescent — Do My Thing
  9. 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

  1. Devin Phillips — Frenchmen Street Strut
  2. Bodhi — Nadine
  3. SubArachnoid Space — Honorable Mention
  4. Fist Fite — Grandma Surprise
  5. Braille — The IV
  6. Eliot Rose — Brightness and the Blood
  7. Pseudosix — Apathy & Excess
  8. Horse Feathers — Road to Ruin
  9. 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

Special thanks to CD Forge for manufacturing the CDs, Stumptown Printers for printing the packaging, Emek for the amazing artwork, Gus Elg at Sky Onion for the mastering, and all the artists for donating their wonderful music.

If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.

The 2007 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. Swim Swam Swum — Without Your French
  2. Lips and Ribs — Battle in Nagoya
  3. Modernstate — SSMF
  4. Menomena — Wet and Rusting
  5. Syndel — Lemme Hear It
  6. World Court — Maps
  7. The Hand That Bleeds — Shattered Love Trance
  8. The Ocean Floor — A Simple Adventure
  9. 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

  1. Junkface — ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI
  2. Kristin Hersh — Blackstone
  3. Sweater! — Mediterranean
  4. Panther — How Well Can You Swim?
  5. Ohmega Watts — 4 Days in Geneva
  6. Run On Sentence — Carrie Pt. II
  7. Exploding Hearts — (Making) Teenage Faces
  8. Derby — If Ever There’s a Reason
  9. 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

Artwork: Dan Stiles

Mastering: Gus Elg at Sky Onion

The 2006 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. Blitzen Trapper — On A Dime
  2. The Thermals — Product Placement
  3. Sweater! — Kill It Now
  4. Siren’s Echo — All My
  5. Stephen Malkmus — Mets To Infinity
  6. The Joggers — We’ve Been Talked Down
  7. Toothfairy — Camp Hormones
  8. Menomena — Shirt
  9. Leviethan — This Town That Town
  10. Treva Jackson — Drive
  11. Talkdemonic — Ending The Orange Glow
  12. Vursatyl (of Lifesavas) — Mr. Gusto
  13. The Planet The — Dreams of Your Co-Workers
  14. Tea For Julie — Pollyanna
  15. Tara Jane O’Neil — Bluelight Room
  16. The Shaky Hands — The Sleepless
  17. LKN — Circumstance
  18. Paint and Copter — Manzier
  19. Horse Feathers — Finch on Saturday
  20. Nice Nice — Down, Down, Down Pt. 1

Disc 2

  1. Rocketship — Our New Track
  2. Blue Skies for Black Hearts — Here Comes the Rain
  3. Junior Private Detective — Aftermath
  4. The Kingdom — Higher
  5. Hello Damascus — Randy
  6. Laura Gibson — Hands in Pockets
  7. Colin Meloy — Barbara Allen
  8. Electric Ill — Nurban Gowns
  9. Viva Voce — From the Devil Himself
  10. Ms. Su’ad — Sweat the Design
  11. The Blow — Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel It’s Wrath)
  12. Copy — Closet Face
  13. Chevron — Cylvia Poggili
  14. Small Sails — Aftershocks + Afterthoughts
  15. We Quit — We Looked Around
  16. Jackie-O Motherfucker — Hey! Mr. Sky
  17. Cool Nuts — More Than Music
  18. Swimmers — Hot Pocket
  19. Mach Fourth Marching Band — Space Hole

Artwork: Mike King

The 2005 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. Sleater-Kinney — Rollercoaster
  2. The Minders — I’m So Low
  3. Mirah — While We Have The Sun (4-track home)
  4. The Blow — Pile of Gold
  5. Nice Nice — Uh-Oh
  6. Dolorean — To Destruction
  7. Swords — Radio Radio
  8. Please Step Out of the Vehicle — Clawz
  9. Desert City Soundtrack — Second Sickness
  10. Holy Sons — Evil Falls
  11. Modern State — Windows & Walls
  12. YACHT — Daydreams With Daffodils (Stepperz Remix)
  13. Glass Candy — Lovin’ Machine
  14. 31 Knots — No Sound
  15. Copy — Just Expect
  16. Toothfairy — Why’d You Have to Die?
  17. Point Line Plane — Descender
  18. Alan Singley — These Trees Are For Resting
  19. Talkdemonic — Mountaintops in Caves
  20. Spooky Dance Band — Chemical Reaction

Disc 2

  1. Viva Voce — Alive With Pleasure
  2. The Gossip — It’s Over
  3. The Thermals — God and Country (live)
  4. Blues Goblins — A Plague Upon the White House
  5. Menomena — Sista Social Theme Song
  6. Die Monitr Batss — Gore Appeal
  7. Lkn — To An Angel on No Condition
  8. Myg feat. Mikah 9, Sleep — The Untold Story
  9. M. Ward — Hi-Fi
  10. Sexton Blake — Emma
  11. Sunset Valley — Smallest Man
  12. The Snuggle Ups — Move your Body
  13. Shicky Gnarowitz and the Transparent Wings of Joy — Freilechs Von Der Chuppe
  14. Wet Confetti — Laughing Gasping
  15. Jessica Jones — What We’ll Admit
  16. Binary Dolls — I Am the Only Master of the Ten-Key
  17. Point Juncture, WA — Cardboard Box
  18. Norfolk & Western — A Gilded Age
  19. Cajun Gems — Homebody
  20. The Helio Sequence — All of These Things
  21. The Decemberists — From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea) (Demo)

Artwork: Tyler Stout

The 2004 Compilation

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Disc 1

  1. The Thermals — How We Know
  2. YACHT — I Love A Computer
  3. Binary Dolls — El Paso
  4. The Helio Sequence — Don’t Look Away
  5. Libretto (featuring Lifesavas) — Volume
  6. talkdemonic — mutiny sunshine
  7. Lack Thereof — Let U Down As Good As I Did
  8. Loch Lomond — Sourire
  9. The Joggers — No Dice
  10. Sarah Dougher — Oh My Glory
  11. Jeremy Wilson — Angel in a Box
  12. Pseudosix — Run Rebel
  13. M. Ward — Vincent O’Brien
  14. Tea For Julie — Hello
  15. Viva Voce — Red D-Lish
  16. Corrina Repp — Lost at Sea
  17. The Sensualists — You Are Love
  18. The Decemberists — Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect

Disc 2

  1. The Shins — Turn a Square
  2. The Planet The — Toledo Vader
  3. Davies vs. Dresch — My Friend is My Hairstylist
  4. Alarmist — Bikini Apocalypse
  5. Blitzen Trapper — Pink Padded Slippers
  6. Per Se — Adelaide
  7. Orange & Allred — Milk Slippers
  8. Quasi — 23 & 24
  9. Tara Jane O’Neil — Famous Yellow Belly
  10. Swords — Immigracion
  11. e*rock — living, breathing, etc
  12. Wow & Flutter — Voice of Reason
  13. Wet Confetti — Apple Disaster
  14. Kind of Like Spitting — In the Red
  15. System and Station — The Art of Letting Go
  16. Sunset Valley — Mr. Extreme Jeans
  17. Lifesavas — Skeletons

Artwork: Guy Burwell

If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.