2008 PDX Pop Now! Fest, Compilation

Event happens July 25-27 in Portland.

By Blurt Staff

Portland, Oregon’s PDX Pop Now! hits five this year, and the free, all-ages music fest takes place July 25-27 at Rotture (formerly Loveland) on 320 SE 2nd Ave. in Portland. For complete details go to the PDX Pop website.

 The performers:

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

Already available is the The 2008 PDX Pop Now! compilation — available locally in Portland or from CD Baby online — with proceeds going towards funding the festival and the rest of organization’s activities. (PDX Pop Now!, incidentally, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to “stimulating and expanding participation in” local music in Portland.) Among the artists featured on it are Panther, Chromatics, Au, Blitzen Trapper, Pink Martini and Faux Hoax (a project featuring Gang of Four's Dave Allen and Menomena's Danny Seim). It’s the fifth compilation from the organization.

According to the festival’s organizers, in the past they’ve hosted such well-known acts as the Shins, The Thermals, Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Viva Voce, Stephen Malkmus, Lifesavas, Quasi, M. Ward, Menomena, The Blow, Mirah, Talkdemonic, The Gossip and Helio Sequence. The events “have provided the public the opportunity to see up to 50 of Portland’s finest bands in one safe venue [and] have drawn audiences in the thousands. The compilations have generated considerable play from local FM radio and have sold thousands of combined copies, mostly through local independent record stores, and helped fund the festivals.  Through outreach programs, PDX Pop Now! successfully worked with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, local businesses and the broader community to make more all-ages concerts possible in a safe and responsible manner, allowing young Oregonians to participate more fully in their local arts communities.”

PDX Pop Now! 2008 Track Listing:

 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 [ft. 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 Track:

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 [ft. 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