PDX POP NOW!: 2007 Compilation

PDX Pop Now!

2007 Compilation

© 2007 PDX Pop Now!

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A volunteer-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and enhancing Portland’s vital and diverse music community releases it's 4th annual compilation to compliment the PDXPopNow festival.

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PDX Pop Now! is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating, promoting, and enhancing Portland’s vital and diverse music community. We also strive to connect this community, in various ways, to the public.

Begun in 2004 in true DIY fashion by a dozen or so members of the PDX-POP mailing list, the group has produced three music compilations and FREE, ALL AGES multi-day music festivals, to which The Shins, The Thermals, Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Viva Voce, Stephen Malkmus, Lifesavas, Quasi, M. Ward, Menomena, The Blow, Mirah, Talkdemonic, The Gossip, Helio Sequence, and dozens more Portland artists – nationally-heralded and little-known alike – contributed recordings or performances.

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.

Artists, businesses, and individual volunteers all donated the time and resources to produce three truly stellar grassroots events – something PDX Pop Now! stands poised to accomplish for a fourth year.

And who knows? Maybe next year, you’ll start your own music festival!

Mailing address
PDX POP NOW!
P.O. Box 14828
Portland, OR 97214

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(503) 616-4433

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  • PDX Pop Now! 2007 compilation
    author: Ben

    Fantastic compilation of diverse music by Portland artists!

  • author: Pamela at CD Baby

    Since its 2004 inception, the PDX Pop Now! music festivals have been packing Portlanders of all ages into jubilantly crowded halls for all the free, hot (both literally and figuratively) music they want to see in the course of a weekend. This two-disc compilation (which provides a portion of the funding for the festival) offers up an unbelievable 40 tracks as a cross-section of what Portland, Oregon has to offer to music these days. It is full of bands becoming national favorites, as well as those who aren’t even well-known around Portland yet. With names like Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists), Menomena, Lifesavas, Old Time Relijun, Klezmocracy, Laura Gibson, Sweater!, and Ferocious Eagle, the songs offer but a sample of what has happened and what is GOING to happen in the not so distant past and future of the Rose City. As for the festival itself, it’s always fantastic, and always stuffed to the gills will all kinds of music fans. There's something incredibly liberating about being able to see all of your favorite local music acts in the same place for FREE, one right after another. With any luck, the festival’s model will be realigning definitions of the local summer music festival in every region of the country.

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