***Update: Looks the original press release was lacking a few acts, so here is the updated list with even MORE bands than before!***

Oh glorious day!

Just weeks before the big day(s), PDX Pop Now! has finally posted the complete lineup for this year's festival. Which, just in case you spaced, is happening on July 25th-27th at multi-stages at (and outside of) Rotture. As always, the event is totally free, totally all ages, totally local, and totally rad. Yes, rad.

Let's see that lineup:
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

End Hits: Freaks for a free festival.

Full press release after the jump

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).

PDX Pop Now! has produced five music compilations and four 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, YACHT, Blitzen Trapper, 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. 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.