PDX Pop Now! 2007 Compilation Track Listing Announced

As if you needed any more evidence that Portland's music scene is on fire, PDX Pop Now! have just released the track listing for their latest (and possibly greatest) compilation featuring some of Portland's finest. Now in its fourth year, the 2007 PDX Pop Now! two-disc set is their most diverse compilation yet, offering a nice mix of acts that are well-known (the Decemberists), on-the-verge (the Shaky Hands), and up-and-coming (the Hugs). And despite the "pop" in the title, almost every kind of genre is represented, from metal (Black Elk) to jazz (Evolutionary Jass Band) to klezmer (Klezmocracy) to hip-hop (Ohmega Watts).

Here's the track listing:

DISC 1 01 Swim Swam Swum - "Without Your French" 02 Lips and Ribs - "Battle in Nagoya" 03 Modernstate - "SSMF" 04 Menomena - "Wet and Rusting" 05 Syndel - "Lemme Hear It" 06 World Court - "Maps" 07 The Hand That Bleeds - "Shattered Love Trance" 08 The Ocean Floor - "A Simple Adventure" 09 Laura Gibson - "Come by Storm" 10 Mirah and Spectratone International - "Community" 11 Evolutionary Jass Band - "Phyllis' Frindge" 12 Old Time Relijun - "The Tightest Cage" 13 Black Elk - "Toss You to the Wolves" 14 Ethan Rose - "Ceiling Song 3 (Excerpt)" 15 Lifesavas - "No Surprise" 16 Alela Diane - "Up North" 17 YACHT - "See a Penny (Pick it Up)" 18 Starfucker - "Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second" 19 Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) - "Culling of the Fold"

DISC 2 01 Junkface - "ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI" 02 Kristin Hersh - "Blackstone" 03 Sweater! - "Mediterranean" 04 Panther - "How Well Can You Swim?" 05 Ohmega Watts - "4 Days in Geneva" 06 Run On Sentence - "Carrie Pt. II" 07 Exploding Hearts - "(Making) Teenage Faces" 08 Derby - "If Ever There's a Reason" 09 The Hugs - "North" 10 Eric John Kaiser - "L'Odyssee" 11 Ferocious Eagle - "Bastards" 12 The Better to See You With - "Garden" 13 Hungry Mob - "To the People" 14 Klezmocracy - "Hava Netze B'machol" 15 Wilding & AED - "Broken Branches" 16 The Robot Ate Me - "Empty Feelings" 17 Alan Singley - "Never Knew" 18 Nice Boys - "Johnny Guitar" 19 31Knots - "Sanctify" 20 White Rainbow - "Mystic Prism" 21 The Shaky Hands - "Soul"

The compilation will be available from CDBaby (or at your favorite local record store if you're lucky enough to live in Portland) starting Tuesday, June 19. For those of you who just can't wait, I've included a track from the comp from Starfucker, one of my favorite acts from the up-and-coming category.

But wait, there's more! PDX Pop Now! is also a three-day music festival featuring 50 Portland bands. This year's festival is scheduled for August 3-5 at AudioCinema, and for the first time one of the event's two stages will be outdoors. So if you're planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest, early August might be a good time. The lineup should be finalized in the next month or so. Check PDX Pop Now!'s website for updates.