Another PDX POP NOW! is ‘in the can’. Once again it came, it saw, it kicked our ass.

I took some behind the scenes pics on Saturday and Sunday. Also, here’s a group of ‘POP’ pics I put together (for you, baby), including the one above of Fist Fite’s Jonnie Monroe. Aw Yeah. She kicks out the PWRFL keyboard jams and still finds time to make CUTE POP PIX.

I’ll spare you my verbage regarding the weekend whirlwind of sweet Portland musical artists, junk foods, and how many people I hassled into posing in front of that wall that said ‘POP’ on it. I don’t have the energy to type, I need to get to work in a half hour, and frankly, I think these peeps have it covered:

There’s a shit-ton of blogging about PDX POP 08′ hap-nin’ on urban honking. Seriously. >>>>WOW<<<<.

The Portland Mercury did a snazzy fest preview.

Also, Localcut’s Michael Mannheimer has detailed reports of days two and one.

ONLY 352 days ’till PDX POP NOW 2009!!!

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It’s day (and night) three of PDX POP NOW!, arguably Portland’s best damn music festival ever (and it’s FREE!). I snapped a few pics of yesterday’s behind the scenes action, including the above shot of Norfolk and Western drumkit specialist Rachel Blumberg. What started out as relatively gentle Saturday afternoon culminated around 2 am inside a (very) packed Rotture with a hot-and-balmy set by Starfucker, a caped stage diver, and some karazy kid out in the street in his underwear. YEA.

(to be continued today and this evening)

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Mr Jarman is on the right….

Casey is obviously too humble to post the news himself but the chatter around town here in Portland is that he has been promoted to Music Editor at Portland’s biggest alt-weekly newspaper the Willamette Week. Luciana Lopez over at the Oregonian broke the news first. [I would link to Luciana's story but I can't find it in the epic tangle that is OregonLive.com] I emailed Casey yesterday and he confirmed his ascension to the ranks of long, sleepless nights writing about bands and music, hanging around in clubs and generally being harangued for not covering enough of the Portland neu-Metal scene…I forgot to ask if he’s still going to run the LocalCut blog too.
Anyway Casey, congrats and I’ll buy you a beer next week in Pendleton at Rock Camp as we try and teach those kids about the Rock!