Big day for festival announcements! I just got word from the folks at PDX Pop Now! about the full details on the 2009 festival—and I have to say, the lineup is really pretty great. Menomena! Nice Nice! The Mint Chicks! The three day, all-ages, free fest is set to take place on July 24-26 at Rotture, and as usual it’s jam packed with the type of diverse, eclectic set of artists that very few cities can offer. And after taking a year off, the PPN is also sponsoring a City Hall show on Thursday, July 16 with YACHT, Point Juncture, WA and Y La Bamba. Last year I attended every minute of the festival, and it was one of the best (and most draining) weekends I’ve ever had. This year I have a wedding to attend on Sunday that I’m trying my hardest to get out of. Here’s everything you need to know:

PDX Pop Now! — Portland’s premier local music advocacy organization – has announced the line up for the 6th annual festival as well as plans for a show on the steps of City Hall.

PDX Pop Now! will be returning to Rotture (320 SE 2nd Ave) on July 24th, 25th and 26th for the free, all-ages festival that showcases Portland’s diverse musical talent. This year’s festival will feature indoor and outdoor sets from Ah Holly Fam’ly, Animal Farm, Au, Autistic Youth, Benoit Pioulard, Breakfast Mountain, Chamber of Commerce (Blue Cranes + Paxselin Quartet), Church, Cull, Daniel Menche, DASH!, Deelay Ceelay, Don Hellions, Explode Into Colors, Fear No Music, Fist Fite, Grouper, Guidance Counselor, Inside Voices, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Laura Gibson, Lightheaded, Luck-One, Magic Johnson, Menomena, Morning Teleportation, MY-G, Nice Nice, Nucular Aminals, Nurses, Peter Broderick, Pierced Arrows, Purple Rhinestone Eagle, Red Fang, Rob Walmart, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Strength, Tara Jane O’Neil, Teeath, The Andrew Oliver Sextet, The Estranged, The Mint Chicks, The Minus 5, The Old Believers, The Quick & Easy Boys, The Shaky Hands, Thrones and White Hinterland.

On July 16th, PDX Pop Now! will host “PDX Pop Now! at Portland City Hall,” a free all-ages show on the steps of Portland’s City Hall (1221 SW 4th Avenue) from 5-8:30pm. This lead-up to the PDX Pop Now! festival will feature performances by Y La Bamba, Point Juncture WA, and YACHT. “PDX Pop Now! is thrilled to once again bring local music to the steps of Portland City Hall in a celebration of the unique climate of civic support independent music enjoys in our town. By presenting a free, all-ages concert featuring some of the most exciting musicians creating in Portland today, and doing so in the middle of downtown just as many people are getting off of work and looking for a way to enjoy a summer evening, we intend to provide an accessible form for Portlanders to discover and appreciate the staggering wealth and diversity of incredible music being made by their neighbors.” Adding, “Additionally, we hope to throw a bright light on the fact that involvement in one’s local arts community is a legitimate and productive form of civic involvement, and one that can serve as a conduit to broader interest and participation in neighborhood and municipal affairs.”

The 2009 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 6th installment of the heralded compilation features 40 tracks, including music from M. Ward, the Thermals, Jared Mees & The Grown Children, Starfucker, and Sandpeople as well as rare or previously unreleased tracks by Grouper, The Mint Chicks, Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson, Dykeritz, Explode Into Colors and Thrones.

The compilation and festival is brought to you in part by generous sponsorships from CD Baby, OPB Music, Button Magazine, Spectre Entertainment Group, Cravedog Inc., Rotture, 230 Publicity and Performer Magazine.

About PDX Pop Now!
PDX Pop Now! is a volunteer-driven, 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to celebrating and promoting Portland’s vital music community. Begun in 2004 in true DIY fashion by a dozen or so members of a local indie-pop email list, the group has produced five previous music compilations and FREE, ALL AGES multi-day music festivals, to which scores of Portland artists both nationally-heralded (including The Decemberists, The Thermals, Lifesavas, Menomena, Blitzen Trapper and The Blow) and little known have contributed recordings or performances. The festivals, which allow the public to see up to 50 of Portland’s finest bands in one central, accessible venue, have drawn audiences in the thousands. The compilations have generated considerable play from local and national FM radio and sold thousands of copies combined, mostly through local independent record stores, to help fund the yearly festival. Additionally, through outreach programs, PDX Pop Now! has worked successfully with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, local businesses, schools and the broader community to make more safe all-ages concerts possible and allow young Oregonians to participate more fully in the local arts community.

*PDX Pop Now! 2009 is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art.

*This project is also supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

* PDX Pop Now! at Portland City Hall is coordinated in partnership with Portland City Hall

Links:
PDX Pop Now!

Image courtesy of PPN

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