Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the eighth installment of their much heralded compilation. The 2-disc set is stacked with 41 tracks from some of Portland OR's finest musicians. O Bruxo, Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Swahili, Lost Lander, along with DJ papi chulo and DJ GIGANTE, have been tapped to perform and provide music between bands at this year's CD Release Benefit which will be held June 2nd at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St.). The cover is $10 and that will include a copy of the 2011 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!

PDX Pop Now 2011 Compilation Track List

Disc 1:

1) Forbidden Friends - Tiny Hands
2) the Shivas - Gun In My Pocket
3) Cool Nutz - Monster Up
4) O Bruxo - De Colores
5) Grouper - Alien Observer
6) Jared Mees & the Grown Children - Hungry Like a Tiger
7) Red Fang - Wires
8) Lovers - Boxer
9) Alan Singley - Sauvie Island
10) Reva DeVito - Baby What You Do to Me
11) Lost Lander - Cold Feet MP3
12) Guantanamo Baywatch - Clam Party
13) Bright Archer - Hidden Systems
14) Purple & Green - Right Here
15) Blue Skies for Black Hearts - Majoring in the Arts
16) Wizard Rifle - Tears Won't Soften Steel
17) Jarad Miles - Lazy Old Sun
18) BOOM! - Onomatopoeia
19) the Ascetic Junkies - (Don't) Panic
20) Death Songs - Wounds

Disc 2:

1) Viva Voce - Analog Woodland Song
2) the BellBoys - Somethin' In My Mind
3) Headphone Party - Strictly Stuntin'
4) Witch Mountain - Veil of the Forgotten
5) Langhorne Slim & the Law - Past Lives (live)
6) Sex Life - I Want You
7) Swahili - Soma
8) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Thought Ballune
9) Point Juncture, WA - When You Wake Up It's Today
10) the Woodlands - In the Dark on Monday (Heavy Hands Remix)
11) the angry orts - the Trend
12) Quiet Countries - A Teeth Cutting
13) Living Proof - Caddy Music
14) Johnny Reno & the Vicemachine - Be Gorgeous & Be Gone
15) Mojave Bird - Roan Wolf
16) Blouse - Into Black
17) On the Stairs - Stand
18) 1939 Ensemble - Espérer
19) Ben Darwish - Under the Bright Red Sky
20) the Minders - Needle Doll MP3
21) Drew Grow - King On Your Throne