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PDX Pop Now!-- the annual compilation and festival celebrating the music of Portland, Oregon-- will return this summer for a fifth installment.

The two-disc compilation, PDX Pop Now! 2008, becomes available to Portland retailers and CD Baby on June 17. It features tunes from Chromatics and Panther alongside previously unreleased tracks by the Blitzen Trapper, YACHT, Horse Feathers, Yellow Swans, Talkdemonic, Au, Pink Martini, the Joggers, and Faux Hoax (a collaboration between Menomena's Danny Seim, Gang of Four's Dave Allen, and John Askew). Proceeds from compilation sales will go toward funding the festival.

Speaking of the festival, it takes place July 25-27 at Rotture, and it features appearances from Panther, Y La Bamba, World's Greatest Ghosts, Atole, SubArachnoid Space, Starfucker, Meth Teeth, New Bloods, Guidance Counselor, the Builders & the Butchers, Reporter, and Argumentix. Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster of the Thermals, aka the recently revived Hutch and Kathy, are also tentatively scheduled to perform.

You can check out the compilation contributions from Blitzen Trapper, the Joggers, and Faux Hoax below.

PDX Pop Now! 2008:

Disc 1:

01 Au: "Are Animals"
02 Blue Cranes: "S.T.I.L.L."
03 Meth Teeth: "Unemployment Forever"
04 The Joggers: "Golden Wage"
05 A Weather: "Spiders, Snakes"
06 New Bloods: "Oh, Deadly Nightshade!"
07 Portland Cello Project [ft. Heather Broderick]: "For Misty"
08 Copacrescent: "Do My Thing"
09 Y La Bamba: "Fasting in San Francisco"
10 Valet: "We Went There"
11 Strength: "Wilderness"
12 Swim Swam Swum: "Not in Your Way"
13 Andy Combs and the Moth: "Let's Ride"
14 Still Pending: "Drivin' to California"
15 Yellow Swans: "Velvet Water"
16 Kelli Schaefer: "Lasso the Moon"
17 Nick Caceres: "The Victorian Hoedown"
18 Blitzen Trapper: "Crushing the Wheat"
19 Sandpeople: "The Count"
20 Panther: "Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips and Ribs Remix)"

Disc 2:

01 Devin Phillips: "Frenchmen Street Strut"
02 Bodhi: "Nadine"
03 SubArachnoid Space: "Honorable Mention"
04 Fist Fite: "Grandma Surprise"
05 Braille: "The IV"
06 Eliot Rose: "Brightness and the Blood"
07 Pseudosix: "Apathy & Excess"
08 Horse Feathers: "Road to Ruin"
09 Hey Lover: "She's the Girl for Me"
10 Dragging an Ox Through Water: "Houses & Homonculi"
11 Southern Belle: "Sunnyside"
12 Pink Martini: "Hey Eugene (Watch Your Back)"
13 YACHT: "Ring the Bell (Premix)"
14 Living Proof [ft. Liv Warfield]: "Sky High City (Bluebird)"
15 Faux Hoax: "Foxworthy"
16 JonnyX and the Groadies: "Castle/Face"
17 The Woodlands: "Until the Day Dims"
18 Chromatics: "Night Drive"
19 Talkdemonic: "Silvertone"
20 Guidance Counselor: "Pull Over"