Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the sixth installment of their much heralded compilation. The 2-disc set is stacked with 40 tracks from some of Portland OR's finest musicians, including previously unreleased tracks from Menomena, Talkdemonic, Dharma Bums, Blitzen Trapper, and more. Deelay Ceelay, Tope, The Angry Orts and The Great Mundane have been tapped to perform at this year's CD Release Benefit which will be held June 3rd at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St.). The cover is $10 and that will include a copy of the 2010 PDX Pop Now! Compilation CD. PDX Pop Now! and Holocene have made special arrangements with the OLCC to allow minors into the benefit, so this show is ALL-AGES!
The 2010 PDX Pop Now! Festival will be held July 30, 31 and August 1 at Rotture 315 SE 3rd Ave Portland, OR 97214.
PDX Pop Now! is brought to you in part by OPB Music, Regional Arts and Culture Council, and vitiaminwater. To receive updates on the festival lineup, and other PDX Pop Now! happenings, sign up for PDX Pop Now! e-news at http://www.pdxpopnow.org.
PDX Pop Now! 2009 Compilation
Disc 1
1) The Basics - Tope & Epp ft. Illmaculate
2) No Nostalgia - AgesandAges**
3) Oooh Kill Ooooh - Nucular Aminals
4) Tange Rine - Deelay Ceelay**
5) City Morgue - Kelli Schaefer
6) Five Little Rooms - Menomena**
7) El Ranchero Tejano - paper/upper/cuts**
8) The Letters - Light for Fire**
9) The Upheaval on Titan - JonnyX & the Groadies
10) Never Again - Fruition
11) My Hip Hop Is Breathing - Beyoung, Empire, Lost Poet, Mr. Flea
12) Starting Over (Bad Habits) - Typhoon
13) bodyblood - the angry orts**
14) Bombast - Trio Subtonic
15) Let This Body Go - Death Songs
16) Steve Don't Party No More - Mean Jeans
17) Flatlands - Mike Coykendall
18) Bad Buzz - The Mint Chicks
19) Wet & Dripping - Aan
20) Patient Heart - Sean Flinn & the Royal We
Disc 2
1) Mercenary Days - Hockey
2) Boxcar Children - ioa
3) Dalvik Tide - Ocean Age
4) Hoop & Wire - Boy Eats Drum Machine
5) Tramm - Breakfast Mountain**
6) Sleep, Child - Nick Jaina
7) Marianne - Strength**
8) Only A Quality Lime for Eric Gruber - Andrew Oliver Sextet
9) Look My Way - Blitzen Trapper**
10) Don't Look Down on Me - MY-G
11) Pythia Misunderstood - Transient
12) Battling Giants - Brainstorm
13) Too Many Days Gone - Dharma Bums**
14) Wide-Eyed, Legless - Laura Veirs
15) Midcentury Motion - Talkdemonic**
16) Pulling Weeds - The Great Mundane**
17) Juniper - Y La Bamba**
18) Peacock Dreams - Peacock Dreams
19) See Waves - Nice Nice
20) Giant Stairs - A Weather
**Previously Unreleased Tracks