Artist	Song
Elliott Smith	Rose Parade
from Either/Or (1997)
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie
from The Best of the Kingsmen (2006)
Sleater-Kinney	Light Rail Coyote
from One Beat (2002)
The Shins	Caring Is Creepy
from Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Dandy Warhols	Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth
from ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
The Decemberists	The Rake's Song
from Hazards of Love (2009)
M. Ward	Never Had Nobody Like You (feat. Zooey Deschanel)
from Hold Time (2009)
Pink Martini	Let's Never Stop Falling In Love
from Hang On Little Tomato (2004)
Viva Voce	Octavio
from Rose City (2009)
The Wipers	Nothing Left to Lose
from Best of the Wipers and Greg Sage (2006)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks	Gardenia
from Real Emotional Trash (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Everclear	Santa Monica
from Sparkle and Fade (1995)
Paul Revere & The Raiders	Kicks
from Paul Revere & The Raiders: Greatest Hits (1987)
The Thermals	Now We Can See
from Now We Can See (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Blind Pilot	One Red Thread
from 3 Rounds and a Sound (2008)
Pond	Hail'stone.
from Exhibit A (2003)
Tara Jane O'Neil	A City In the North
from Peregrine (2000)
Mirah	The Garden
from Advisory Committee (2007)
Stars of Track and Field	Racing Lights
from A Time for Lions (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Quasi	Bye Bye Blackbird
from American Gong (Bonus Track Version) (2010)
Thao	When We Swam
from Know Better Learn Faster (2009)
Blitzen Trapper	Destroyer of the Void
from Destroyer of the Void (2010)
Menomena	E. Is Stable
from I AM the FUN BLAME MONSTER! (2003)
Poison Idea	Feel the Darkness
from Feel the Darkness (2008)
Eluvium	In Culmination
from Similes (2010)
Glass Candy	Candy Castle
from B/E/A/T/B/O/X (2007)
Curtis Salgado	Beneath the Silver Moon
from Wiggle Outta This (2005)
Lovers	Igloo for Ojos
from I Am the West (2009)
Team Dresch	Fake Fight
from Personal Best (1995)
Lifesavas	Resist
from Spirit In Stone (2003)
The Helio Sequence	Everyone Knows Everyone
from Love and Distance (2004)
The Spinanes	Hawaiian Baby
from Imp Years (1999)
Hazel	King Twist
from Are You Going to Eat That (1995)
Yume Bitsu	I Wait for You
from Yume Bitsu (1999)
YACHT	Psychic City (Voodoo City)
from See Mystery Lights (2009)
The Minders	Jenny
from It's a Bright Guilty World (2006)
Heatmiser	Sleeping Pill
from Cop and Speeder (1994)
boy eats drum machine	Syncopated
from Hoop + Wire (2010)
The Shaky Hands	Let It Die
from Let It Die (2009)
Wolf Colonel	The Almond Gorilla
from The Castle (2007)
All Girl Summer Fun Band	Theme Song
from All Girl Summer Fun Band (2007)
Sprinkler	Landlord
from More Boy, Less Friend (1992)
The Softies	It's Love (Live)
from A House Full of Friends (2005)
The Blow	True Affection
from Paper Television (2007)
Talkdemonic	Tides In Their Grave
from Eyes At Half Mast (2008)
Nice Nice	Cold Sweat, Pt. 16
from Chrome (2003)
Digital Knife	Bike Freaks
from Mini-van Nation (2004)
The Slants	Kokoro (I Fall to Pieces)
from Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts (2008)
James Angell	Ooh Love
from Private Player (2004)
E-Rock	Living, Breathing, Etc
from Conscious (2004)
Copy	Afro Oven
from Mobius Beard (2006)
Thanksgiving	Growing Up
from The Marriage Records Compilation: Is Orange Birds (2005)
Blue Giant	Gone for Good (feat. Corin Tucker)
from Blue Giant (2010)
Eux Autres	Le Project Citron
from A House Full of Friends (2005)
Benoit Pioulard	Idyll
from Temper (2008)
Loch Lomond	The Mountain
from When We Were Mountains (2003)
The Standard	Even Numbers
from Wire Post to Wire (2004)
White Hinterland	Begin Again
from Kairos (2010)
Climber	Hornes
from Climber (2004)
Ohmega Watts	That Sound (Featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle)
from The Find (2005)
White Rainbow	Mystic Prism
from Prism of Eternal Now (2007)
Nudge	Standing On Hot Sidewalk
from Cached (2005)
Super XX Man	There'll Be Diamonds
from Vol. XII: There'll Be Diamonds (2008)
Quarterflash	Harden My Heart
from Quarterflash (1981)
Ramona Falls	Russia
from Intuit (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
The Harvey Girls	Smile Like Gwynplaine
from I've Been Watching A Lot of Horror Movies Lately (2010)
Portland Cello Project	Tallymarks (Feat. Thao)
from The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (2009)
Sarah Dougher	Moving
from Day One (2007)
Parenthetical Girls	A Song for Ellie Greenwich
from Entanglements (2008)
The Badger King	Water Quiet, Water Dark
from The Badger King Break Up - EP (2003)
The Watery Graves	Lying In a Seaway
from The Sea and Skies Above - EP (2003)
Nurses	Technicolor
from Apple's Acre (2009)
Chris Botti	Drive Time
from The Very Best of Chris Botti (2002)
Lackthereof	Fake Empire
from Your Anchor (2008)

Comment:

With warm, dry summers and rainy winters, Portland, OR, boasts an ideal climate for growing roses. And with its thriving urban culture nestled in the majestic Pacific Northwest, this City of Roses is also perfect for nurturing musical talent. Witness Heatmiser (“Sleeping Pill”) — epic on their own, they’re the trunk of a Portland family tree that branches out to the alt-rock splendor of Quasi (“Bye Bye Blackbird”), the production skills of drummer Tony Lash, who manned the boards for Portland garage-pop trail blazers the Dandy Warhols (“Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth”), and the solo work of Elliott Smith (“Rose Parade”). And that’s just one band — with everything from the emo-inflected alt-rock of Stars of Track and Field (“Racing Lights”), to the ambient piano strokes of Eluvium and “In Culmination,” our Portland Essentials proves that great music may reach out to the far corners, but it all starts at home.

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