PDX Pop Now! 2008 Line-Up

The line-up for this year's PDX Pop Now! 2008 festival has been announced. It's happening July 25th-27th at Rotture. As always, it's free and all-ages.*

The Players:

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 & 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

The order of appearances will be released early next week.

It will be a great weekend with a number of great concerts occurring the week leading up to the festival as well. More to come on this front in the next few weeks (i.e. the greatest week in local music ever). The same weekend Girl Talk, Fleet Foxes, No Age, Chromeo, and the Hold Steady will also be performing in Portland. Save your money.

*I guess you could consider the number of posts about the festival an exercise in shameless self-promotion because I a member of this year's booking committee.