PDX Pop Now! announces lineup for Portland’s free indie music festival
Yacht performing at PDX Pop Now! 2007. Pic Jason Quiqley
PDX Pop Now!, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating and expanding participation in the music of Portland Oregon, has announced the lineup for the 2008 PDX Pop Now! Festival.
To celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary, PDX Pop Now! will be returning to Rotture (formerly Loveland) on 320 SE 2nd Ave. This free, all-ages festival will showcase Portland’s diverse musical talent on July 25th, 26th and 27th. This year’s festival will feature performances from 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.
The 2008 PDX Pop Now! compilation is now available for purchase at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby here. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of organization’s activities. The 2008 installment of the heralded compilation features music from Panther, Chromatics and Au as well as previously unreleased tracks by the Blitzen Trapper, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers, YACHT, Yellow Swans, the Joggers, Pink Martini, and Faux Hoax (a project featuring Gang of Four’s Dave Allen and Menomena’s Danny Seim).
The PDX Pop Now! festivals – which have provided the public the opportunity to see up to 50 of Portland’s finest bands in one safe venue -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.
