PDX Pop Now! Festival
July 19-21 @ Eastbank Lot (SE Water & SE Salmon)
FREE – ALL AGES
W/ 45 Bands on two outdoor stages, street fair, Rigsketball, activity area, and food court!
PDX Pop Now! (July 19 – 21st) is a free all ages showcase of local – well Cascadia local – bands. This year is the 10th anniversary of one of the most interesting music festivals you’ve probably never heard of. Don’t make that mistake this year – go see it! You have 3 days, it’s right in Portland, no tickets, no nuthin’. The bands play 20-30 minute sets so blink and you miss it.
As usual, check out their Facebook for up to date info. If you can’t make it, definitely pick up the compilation CD.
What? You’ve never heard of any of these bands? THAT IS THE POINT! go check them out
Bonus points if you know what Rigsketball is. Crazy kids.
Ancient Heat Billions and Billions Blue Skies for Black Hearts Cassow Dangerous Boys Club Dusu Mali Fanno Creek Gaytheist Genders Ghost Ease Grammies Hausu Hot Victory Like a Villain Litanic Mask Luck One Magic Fades Magic Mouth Mattress Memories Minden Mojave Bird Natasha Kmeto Orquestra Pacific Tropicale Palo Verde PWRHAUS Ramona Falls Richmond Fontaine Satin Chaps Shy Girls Slimkid3 w/ Doo Doo Funk Sons of Huns Sun Angle The We Shared Milk Trio Subtonic Unkle Funkle Vice Device Warm Hands Witch Mountain WL Wooden Indian Burial Ground Woolen Men Y La Bamba Youthbitch and Special Guests!