hi all,
It's been a long time coming... almost an embarrassingly long time.
I started talking about it around this time last year. The earliest date that i can recall where i said we'd launch was to be New Years day, some of you may been able to nail it on a earlier date than that.

ALL said and done, here in internet ink,
THE NEW VERSION OF THE SHOW-GUIDE WILL LAUNCH OVER THE 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!
It's looking pretty great, i'm not going to lie - we're very excited to get the new version published and have you guys use it!

WHAT'S NEW:

Maps and Membership and more!
SPEED:The current version in the past few weeks/months has often been slow, sometimes just gone non-responsive (ouch!). The site has been almost completely recoded - it's all 99% fresh to be able to handle to ~15 page views the site is averaging EVERY SECOND.

Membership Features!

If you happened to have signed up for the current implementation of Membership on pc-pdx, i'm sure you're deeply disappointed. RURL SORR about that!
Subscribe and Track your Bands/Artists + places:
Be alerted, even emailed when your subscriptions have new shows.
Save shows to a custom list.

Show Tags! -

"being able to tag shows by genre would be pretty sweet so people into particular kinds of music could search for shows that way -name"

this is the most requested feature of all time and it's finally here. Tags are automatically generated for every show posted so it'll be easier to scope out those shows you might be interested in. We'll need your help in getting this feature perfect, but still it's pretty cool.

Map!

"There should be a page that is just a map of all the shows happening that day.
concerning the map: 1) the 21+ blips would be a different color than the all ages ones.
2) the photos would also appear on the map. -dude"

- i don't know what #2 means (anybody?), but #1 is in place and it's real neat.

Tons of betterness

Better venue list, venue descriptions, better filtering, better photo gallery. Tons of stuff!
So much stuff that i'm bored of writing about it. -off to finish it all up, just thought you might like to have heads up.

Thanks to all of you who have supported the guide over the years. Snaps to all the rad people like Bad Times and cowchampion and milesmouthguard and Walt everyone else who has contributed content and love and made this thing so rad.