Scattered…Picccctuuurreesss – PDX Pop Now! Through the Lens of Someone Who Kept Forgetting to Take Pictures

Fortunately for our faithful Deli Portland readership, your humble Associate Editor did not snap thousands of photos of this year’s weekend mega-pop fest at Rotture. Truth be told, he prefers to let the camera do most of the work anyway. His skills are, on the high end, derivative of the cogs employed within the black plastics and gears of his lady-friend’s Nikon D-40.

It’s with that kind of frame of mind that he took real, actual photos of only four or so acts. Well, to be fair, he did take more, but he didn’t know how to use this goddamn digi-monstrosity (he prefers the FX Camera app for his Smartphone above all other technological profundity), and consequently his indoor stage shots looked like Ansel Adams had been taking snifters of Jonestown Kool-Aid.

So here is what we do have:

 

O Bruxo live on Saturday, July 31, providing a much needed Latin-rock shuffle to the purveying masses of over-easy dance and experimental hoopla.

 

A personal favorite, Da’Rel Junior, along with his DJ Dr. Adam, regaled stories of nerd-dom against heady beats to an appreciative afternoon crowd on Saturday. Hip-hoppers take note: Da’Rel brings it with more than an ample dose of humility slathering his potent rhymes.


 

Mike D and the rest of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House pretty much scared the shit out of every person in attendance who hadn’t seen them before, despite their god-fearing sentimentalism and appropriately Care Bear-esque dispositions. The band only had time enough to blaze through five songs or so before the weight of their bar-room cow punk would take a bow. If I find more worthwhile shots, I’ll post them here for sure.

You’re welcome…

Ryan J. Prado