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Click on image to go to the PDXPOPNOW site to get the track listing for the 2008 PDXPOPNOW 2xCD compilation.

See the breaking story on the Willamette Week blog.

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Willamette Week did an article on Brainstains. Click, click click.

via PDXPOPNOW!:

OLCC Round 2 - Email Now In Support of All-Ages Music

12:00AM on Thursday February 14, 2008

THE BAD NEWS: The proposal to change the OLCC’s rules to allow more music venues to hold all-ages shows was voted down 3-2 in December, 2007.

THE GREAT NEWS: WE HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE. The OLCC is considering a nearly identical rule change right now. Write in now to express your support for this important and carefully drafted proposal.

We (PDXPOPNOW!) put together a boilerplate email that you can sign your name to and send in if you don’t have time to write your own. Find that email and tons more information about this issue on our website’s (PDXPOPNOW’s) OLCC page.

Even if you already wrote the OLCC back in 2007, you must write again for your comments to be considered this time around.

The deadline to write in is Friday, March 7, 2008.

Click here to send our pre-written email to the OLCC.

The OLCC commissioners will take your opinions into account when they vote on this matter in mid-April, 2008.

This could not be more important to our local music community and the young people who want to be a part of it.

Write your letter now. Send it to the OLCC Rules Coordinator: Jennifer.Huntsman@state.or.us

Someday Lounge Presents.
The Portland Artix Festival: An Annual celebration of strange and
Dangerous music!

Featuring..
31 Knots
Grouper
Honed Bastion
Cex Fucx
JonnyX and the Groadies
The Better to See You With
Oaxacan (Oakland)
Art Lessing (Sacramento)
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (Seattle)
Ghost to Falco
Eat Skull
Prowls

Saturday, Dec 1st
At The Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave
4pm- 1am/ $8 at the door
www.somedaylounge.com

ABOUT ARTIX
No one owns PDX’s goldmine of extreme creativity/experimentation like
the free-source CEO of Artix/Tropix. This year, Boss of Goth, James
Squeaky of Below PDX/Argumentix and Sisyphus of Psych-Folk, Josh
Blanchard curate the most eclectic selection of Portland’s
underground, and a couple house-guests from up and down the coast.
Join us.

It’s going to be ALL AGES!!! Even newborn infants know anger these days.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

31 Knots

One of the first PDX bands I fell in love with when I escaped the Y2K
malfunction of San Francisco. Their longevity has been forgiven by
their natural ability to combine drunk audience prowling pop hooks
with loose messes, only to dash in with a mop and sop the space back
to new. They are a crown jewel of Portland’s Old Guard and a
perfectionist of musical self-expression. The big Kahuna.

Grouper

Imagine Liz Harris as a sonic nurse, healing despair with layered
guitar and vocal loop compositions. Devastating beautiful seas of
inviting optimism.

Honed Bastion

Having just opened his own Screen-Printing business, Seizure Palace,
Nick Bittakis’s performances have become increasingly rare. A special
honor that Honed Bastion will be swiping his hard-panning meditations
of sequences, loops, processed saliva and princess puppies across the
Someday speakers. A deep soul spread across the white sands while the
distant city melts with flames, making the sky glow red. A lover of
all that is junk, Honed Bastion can find brilliance in a dirt-pile and
hammer a frame around it just long enough to inhale its fresh nutrient
before returning to the shit.

Cex Fucx

Bringing the crowd to its feet with experimental jam-band party music,
Cex Fucx will get the temperature rising to Summer night proportions.
Fronted by my co-curator of the first Tropix, Gabriel Mindel of Yellow
Swans, get ready to dance.

JonnyX and the Groadies

No matter what else we might argue about, I dare anyone to claim that
the Groadies aren’t the best all-around band in the PDX underground!
Who welcomes us with open arms when we’re new to the city? Who always
gets the party started early and then helps us clean up afterward?
Putting out their own records, exclusively performing all-ages shows.
Giving an absurd voice to our diversity of ideas and lifestyles and
celebrating what makes each of us individuals. JonnyX is also a
neurotically technical, Electro Black Metal motivational Punk band.
Black lights, lazer pointers, crowd surfing.

The Better to See You With

Immediately classic, experimentally active, and ready to fight to the
death, TBTSYW are my favorite PDX Heavy band. Grind Core that thrashes
somewhere between Prog and Hardcore Punk, while remaining fearless
about falling down the rocks along the way. “Ferocious” is one of my
favorite words and I give it to Fae Knutson’s vocal-delivery. Let her
sing until every soldier sleeps safe and war is over.

Oaxacan

Oakland’s cinematic Oaxacan has a unique approach to the traditional
trio. Layered lady breath loops with jazzy guitar/drums. It’s
beautiful and creepy music that takes time and space to build a
mountain of a journey.

Art Lessing

LSD guru guitar loop jamming from Sacramento. Heady compositions in
the neighborhood of Sir Richard Bishop with meditative sounds to help
you travel to another dimension. Killer.

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer

From a cold place deep inside the Earth (Seattle), BSBC are a
demon-network of scraping nails and heavy fists. Drawing influence
from HEAVY, combining cold atmospheric Black Metal, flesh-slicing
mechanics of Industrial, and bitter disregard for humanity Harsh
Noise/Power Electronics, this brutal trio swears by sonic confrontation.

Ghost to Falco

Little Eric Crespo birdie lives in the tree outside my window and
sings to me when the world’s weight falls on my shoulders. His face
shows a man, inside a boy floating like a guardian angel. His songs of
confronting fear to find hope-soap to scrub the sores of aging
cynicism are quite moving. This night, Eric will be leading his band
on a rare experimental set.

Eat Skull

New kids on the block with old soul, Eat Skull play low-fi Power Pop
Punk that simultaneously reminds me of every Rock band I have ever
liked. Scott Simmons (owner of PDX’s best experimental record store,
Exiled), Rob Embom(Hospitals/Gang Wizard and a bunch of other rad
bands) and friends thrash their trash like everything is being held
together by duct tape. Super loose one minute only to be rolled into a
catchy pop song. Keyboard and guitar Punk for people that believe Rock
is often too tedious.

Prowls

Portland’s premiere all-lady Noise band Prowls, spans three
generations of rad musical history. Rock `N’ Roll Jackie of Portland’s
best ever band, Smegma, endangered habitat crusader Amanda Hendricks
(aka Ecomorti) and fresh faced Keira, whose only solo performance was
debuted at Artix last year. These classy Noise Princesses don’t need
huge volume to put out big ideas, playing creeping sludge and
trash-loop vinyl records through practice amps.

You may or may not know that JonnyX and the Groadies will only play all-ages events so when we heard about this we thought you should know about it too.

The OLCC will be deciding soon on a proposal to change their out-dated, ineffective, and just plain weird rules relating to young people and music venues.

Please check this link to see what all the hub-bub is all about.

We think its pretty important and if things work out, the Portland music community will be greatly enhanced.

Click here to read PDX Pop Now! Board Member Cary Clarke’s article about this issue in The Portland Mercury. It’s a short summary of what’s going on, why it’s important, and what you can do.