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Gang of Four: A handful of PDX Pop Now!s founders reminisce, persevere & conquer genre.

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2008-07-23 12:48:36 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! festival, which celebrates its fifth birthday this Friday through Sunday at Rotture, shows no signs of agingeven if it has caused a few gray hairs among the heads of four of its founders: Cary Clarke, Ross Beach, Greg Borenstein and Jay Caruso, who sat down with WW last week to talk about the festivals history In early 2004, well...
 
Tags: pdx pop, pdx pop performance, then-pdx pop volunteer, music festival, music, pdx pop electronic, annual pdx pop, festival, portlands music scene
 
 
 
 
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PDX Pop Now! Lineup Announced (SUPER UPDATED)

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2008-07-11 19:47:12 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
...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 Ghosts...
 
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So Much PDX Pop Now! News

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2008-01-22 10:20:25 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
PDX Pop Now! season is almost as long as baseball season. Theres Spring training, where bands contribute tracks for the annual compilation (going on nowsee pdxpopnow.org for more info), the regular season part where the comp gets put together and the festival gets booked, and of course the playoffs, where the comp comes out and we get a full...
 
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Its So On, PDX Pop Now!

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2008-02-22 21:07:50 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! stage. Remember though that, as with previous years, the folks at the fest arent going to decide its stars using your votes alone (in fact they long ago ditched the word vote in favor of requests, as to avoid any confusion). Youre just making suggestions. And if enough of us suggest the same groups/artists, theyll at least get a...
 
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Mark Your Calendars: PDX Pop Now! Releases Comp, Festival Info

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2008-05-12 22:33:00 by MICHAEL MANNHEIMER in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! just released a bevy of info this morning to the internet worldincluding the final tracklisting for the 2008 compilation and the initial lineup for this years festival, set to take place July 25-27 at Rotture Sitting atop the pile are the Builders and the Butchers and Starfucker, the top two finishers from last weeks Best New...
 
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This is What PDX Pop Now! 2008 Will Sound Like (MP3s!)

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2008-07-19 04:00:42 by CASEY JARMAN in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! fest (July 25-27 at Rotture). We were already late in posting this years schedule, so we figured why not just be really late and provide MP3s for those 31 artists whom our radars have focused on in the last couple of years. I mean, if MTV is covering PDX Pop , we best step up our game a bit, right So here it is, a...
 
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The Michael Mannheimer Marathon PDX Pop Now! 2008 Report: Day 1

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2008-07-26 20:15:41 by MICHAEL MANNHEIMER in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! festival last year. Or the year before, for that matter. While my friends were freaking out over Starfuckers dance-pop steez, the insane MarchFourth Marching Band party and the Pink Snowflakes psychedelic fuzz pop, I was standing behind the counter of a Borders in Glendale, CA, helping the entire cashier staff count out over $108...
 
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The Michael Mannheimer Marathon PDX Pop Now! 2008 Report: Still Going Strong (Day 2)

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2008-07-28 01:35:06 by MICHAEL MANNHEIMER in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! festival. I ran into a lot of friends yesterday, both old and new, and everybody had the same questiondoes it suck to be on assignment this whole time? I cant help but laugh at that one. I could leave at any time if I wanted to, but this weekend is about so much more than endurance and going hungry and wishing I could sleep more...
 
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The Michael Mannheimer Marathon PDX Pop Now! 2008 Report: The Only Thing I Want In My Life Is Decent Music (Day 3)

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2008-07-29 07:43:26 by MICHAEL MANNHEIMER in local Cut
...PDX Pop Now! festival was also the most physically draining for me. Flying off too much caffeine and an average of four hours of sleep a night, I barely made it on Sunday afternoon. I also took less notesboth in reaction to the extreme illegibility of some of the pages and the inevitable come-down late in the afternoonand tried to spend more...
 
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