Updated AGAIN: Okay, here’s the REAL, COMPLETE PDX Pop Now! lineup courtesy of organizer and friend of the site Cary Clarke:

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

Earlier Update: A source close to the fest tells us that some names were left off this list. In particular, some of our favorite Portland bands: Blind Pilot, Eat Skull, A Weather, Portland Cello Project and World’s Greatest Ghosts are all playing PDX-Pop Now! (or were as of yesterday). In light of this news, let me announce that Blind Pilot is going to put on one of the best shows of this fest. End transmission, continue reading for the big list.

It’s that time of year again. Only two weeks until PDX Pop Now!, the all-ages, all-local and all-awesome music festival that will be over at Rotture this year (home sweet home! We used to have so much fun over there when it was Loveland!). After a year of covering the local music scene, we get pretty excited around these parts.

Prepare yourself for a big chunk of band names. Some you know (The Builders and the Butchers, Starfucker, New Bloods), some you don’t know (the tenses, Sweater!—hm, I don’t know them, anyway). Plenty of stuff to be stoked about here, no matter how you cut it. Here’s hoping our favorites get cushy spots!

Drumrollllllll…..press release:

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, Bark Hide and Horn, Bodhi, the Builders and the Butchers, Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights, Cower, Devin Phillips Band, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Dykeritz, 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, Nurses, Panther, Pure Country Gold, Podington Bear, Rainy States, Reporter, the Revisions, Sleep, Starfucker, the SubArachnoid Space, Sweater!, Swim Swam Swum, the Tenses, Tu Fawning, the Warfield Experience, White Fang, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, and Y La Bamba. 

The 2008 PDX Pop Now! compilation is now available for purchase at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby [ cdbaby.com/cd/pdxpopnow2008 ]. 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 comm:unity 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.

Links:
PDX Pop NowSpace

Image courtesy of PDX Pop