Get ready to get really excited about PDX Pop Now!. The local festival folks have announced the details of their 2008 compilation, the festival dates (with a sneak preview of some of the acts performing), plus they have granted us some unreleased MP3s as well.

Good lord.

First off, the festival. Once again moving venues, PDX Pop Now! will take place at Rotture on the three greatest days of your life, July 25-27. Not sure how they will accommodate all 50 bands, but I assume they will be using a large portion of the Rotture (aka Loveland, aka Meow Meow, aka B Complex…) building, plus perhaps an outdoor stage as well. This year’s performers will include The Builders & The Butchers, New Bloods, Panther, Starfucker, Atole, SubArachnoid Space, Reporter, and more to be announced soon. Oh, and it’s all free. Three days of free music. This is why you moved here.

Secondly, the compilation. It’s 40-tracks (!) deep, a mere $8 from local retailers, and features unreleased (!!) songs from Faux Hoax, Blitzen Trapper, YACHT, The Joggers, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers, Yellow Swans, Au and Pink Martini. Holy fuck! Not the band called “Holy Fuck,” that was just my personal reaction when I read the track listing.

Finally, the free unreleased MP3s. Download your heart out, but be sure to pick up a copy of the compilation on June 17th when it hits stores.

MP3:
Faux Hoax (Danny Seim of Menomena, Dave Allen of Gang of Four and John Askew) - Foxworthy

Blitzen Trapper - Crushing the Wheat

The Joggers - Golden Wage

Full press release, and compilation track listing, after the jump.

End Hits: We known our Pop Now!

PDX Pop Now! Announces 2008 Compilation, Festival

Unreleased Blitzen Trapper, YACHT, The Joggers, Faux Hoax, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers
Yellow Swans, Au and Pink Martini tracks on PDX Pop Now! 2008 Compilation (June 17)

The Builders & The Butchers, New Bloods, Panther,
Starfucker, SubArachnoid Space and More To Play Fest (July 25-27)

Portland, Ore. -- May 11, 2008 PDX Pop Now! -- a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to championing its city's vibrant music community -- is pleased to announce its fifth annual festival of Portland music and the release of PDX Pop Now! 2008, the group's fifth 2-disc compilation of music from Portland artists.

The Festival
A FREE, ALL AGES, three-day event featuring nearly 50 Portland bands, the PDX Pop Now! festival will take place July 25-27, 2008, at Rotture (roh-TUR-ay), a live music venue located in Portland's inner southeast warehouse district. Rotture resides in the space formerly occupied by the venues Loveland and Meow Meow, home to the first three PDX Pop Now! festivals. The initial lineup includes:

The Builders & The Butchers | New Bloods | Panther | Starfucker | Atole
SubArachnoid Space | Reporter | Argumentix | Meth Teeth
Guidance Counselor | World's Greatest Ghosts | Y La Bamba
Hutch & Kathy of The Thermals (tentative)

Many more artists are still to be announced; please check our schedule page for updates.

The Compilation
Previously unreleased tracks from Portland artists Faux Hoax (the new project from Danny Seim of Menomena, Dave Allen of Gang of Four and John Askew), Blitzen Trapper, YACHT, The Joggers, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers, Yellow Swans, Au and Pink Martini highlight the 40-track collection, which features additional gems from local favorites Chromatics, Valet, New Bloods, Panther, Sandpeople and more. PDX Pop Now! also extended an open invitation to its city's musicians to submit music for consideration for the album, and selections culled from the work submitted by more than 400 artists round out the album, which, in a display of Portland's tremendous musical diversity, features genres from indie rock, laptop-pop and hip hop to folk, ambient, psychedelia, jazz, noise, and metal. The compilation will be available for purchase for a quite economical $8 starting Tuesday, June 17, at Portland-area retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales go towards funding the festival.

Tracklisting:

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 feat. 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
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 feat. Liv Warfield - "Sky High City (Bluebird)"
15 Faux Hoax - "Foxworthy"
16 JonnyX and the Groadies
17 The Woodlands - "Until the Day Dims"
18 Chromatics - "Night Drive"
19 Talkdemonic - "Silvertone"
20 Guidance Counselor - "Pull Over"