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We were already excited about this years SxSw line-up for their seminal music festival in Austin Texas which takes place March 16th-21st. Mainly because the initial line-up looked good, but freaking heck!
Highlights which we've spotted in the line-up include Pedro the Lion, Bobby Conn, Idlewild, The Album Leaf, M.Ward, Carina Round, Biffy Clyro, Statistics, Hot Chip, ISIS, Phoenix, S.Rock Levinson, Maximo Park, Saul Williams and DiS Recordings very own Martha Wainwright (Pictured).
The line-up (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) that they've got up on sxsw.com is as follows...
Aberfeldy (Edinburgh UK)
A Brand (Antwerp BELGIUM)
Abstraq The Grindologist (Beaumont TX)
Acid King (San Francisco CA)
Adem (London UK)
The Adored Los Angeles CA)
Aesop Rock (New York NY)
A Frames (Seattle WA)
After The Fall (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
AKO (Bristol UK)
Alabama Thunderpussy (Richmond VA)
The Alarm (Rhyl UK)
alaska! (Los Angeles CA)
An Albatross (Philadelphia PA)
Album (Monterrey MEXICO)
The Album Leaf (San Diego CA)
Jessi Alexander (TX)
Amber Pacific (Seattle WA)
Ambulance Ltd (New York NY)
American Analog Set (Austin TX)
American Minor (Hunntington WV)
American Music Club (San Francisco CA)
American Vodka (Austin TX)
Amplified Heat (Austin TX)
AMPOP (Reykjavik ICELAND)
AM60 (New York NY)
An Angle (Sacramento CA)
Anberlin (Orlando FL)
The Antarcticans (Los Angeles CA)
Michelle Anthony (Whitefish Bay WI)
Antigone Rising (New York NY)
The Anubian Lights (Los Angeles CA)
Apache Indian (Birmingham UK)
Apocalyptica (GERMANY)
Apollo Heights (New York NY)
Apollo Sunshine (Boston MA)
Apostle Of Hustle (Toronto ON)
Appreciation (San Francisco CA)
The Aquabats (Huntington Beach CA)
Aqualung (TBA UK)
Aqueduct (Seattle WA)
Iain Archer (Belfast IRELAND)
Ariel Pink (Los Angeles CA)
The Arm (Austin TX)
Nic Armstrong (London UK)
Army Of Me (Washington DC)
Ash (London UK)
Asleep in the Sea (Phoenix AZ)
Asobi Seksu (New York NY)
Assacre (Austin TX)
Attack Formation (Austin TX)
Jon Auer (Seattle WA)
Austin Theremonic Orchestra (Austin TX)
Awesome Cool Dudes (Austin TX)
AYO (FRANCE)
Back Porch Vipers (Driftwood TX)
The Bad Plus (New York NY)
Bad Wizard (New York NY)
Jill Barber (Halifax NS)
Barbez (Brooklyn NY)
Bobby Bare Jr. (Nashville TN)
Barely Broke Family (Austin TX)
Lou Barlow (Los Angeles CA)
Shane Bartell (Austin TX)
Tywanna Jo Baskette (Nashville TN)
Basswood Lane (Austin TX)
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash (Carlsbad CA)
Judah Bauer/20 Miles (New York NY)
Bavu Blakes (Garland TX)
BC Camplight (Philadelphia PA)
Beangrowers (St. Julians MALTA)
bedbug (Austin TX)
Bedouin Soundclash (Kingston ON)
Bedroom Walls (Highland Park CA)
The Be Good Tanyas (Vancouver BC)
Clara Bell (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Bellrays (Riverside CA)
Bell X1 (Dublin IRELAND)
Benevento/Russo Duo (Brooklyn NY)
Benzos (New York NY)
The Besnard Lakes (Montreal QC)
Brent Best (Denton TX)
Best Fwends (Fort Worth TX)
Betchadupa (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Between the Buried and Me (Raleigh NC)
Be Your Own Pet (Nashville TN)
Biffy Clyro (Glasgow UK)
Big Bear (Boston MA)
Bikini Atoll (London UK)
Biomechanical (London UK)
Bio Ritmo (Richmond VA)
Bitter Bitter Weeks (Philadelphia PA)
Black Earth (Austin TX)
Blackfire Revelation (New Orleans LA)
The Black Halos (Vancouver BC)
The Black Lips (Atlanta GA)
The Black Maria (Toronto ON)
Black Moses (London UK)
Black Sun Ensemble (Tucson AZ)
The Black Swans (Columbus OH)
Black Velvets (Liverpool UK)
Sarah Blasko (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Bleach (Okinawa JAPAN)
Maxon Blewitt (Antwerp BELGIUM)
Blind Boys of Alabama (Birmingham AL)
Bloc Party (London UK)
Bloodthirsty Lovers (Memphis TN)
Bloody Hollies (Buffalo NY)
Blowfly (Miami FL)
Blue Merle (Nashville TN)
The Blueskins (Yorkshire UK)
The Blue Van (Copenhagen DENMARK)
James Blunt (London UK)
Jane Bond (Austin TX)
Tracy Bonham (Brooklyn NY)
Bonk (Oslo NORWAY)
Aaron Booth (Toronto ON)
Sarah Borges (Boston MA)
Bottom (San Francisco CA)
Boulder Acoustic Society (Boulder CO)
Boy (Whitehorse YT)
Boyskout (San Francisco CA)
The Bravery (New York NY)
Brazilian Girls (New York NY)
Break the Silence (Chicago IL)
Breather Resist (Louisville KY)
Breed 77 (London UK)
Jake Brennan and the Confidence Men (Boston MA)
Brightblack (San Francisco CA)
The Brilliant Mistakes (New York NY)
Chris Brokaw (Boston MA)
Elliott Brood (Toronto ON)
Brother JT (West Easton PA)
Larisa Bryski (Sacramento CA)
Jim Bryson (Ottawa ON)
Buck 65 (Halifax NS)
Built Like Alaska (Oakdale CA)
Bumblebeez 81 (Braidwood AUSTRALIA)
Bun B & UGK Present MDDL FNGZ (Port Arthur TX)
Bunky (San Diego CA)
Burden Brothers (Dallas TX)
Buried At Sea (Chicago IL)
Buried Inside (Ottawa ON)
Burrito Deluxe (Nashville TN)
Clare Burson (Nashville TN)
Bury Your Dead (Boston MA)
The Business Machines (Los Angeles CA)
John Butler Trio (Freemantle AUSTRALIA)
By Any Means Necessary (Austin TX)
By Divine Right (Toronto ON)
By the End of Tonight (Alvin TX)
Calexico (Tucson AZ)
Calla (Brooklyn NY)
Troy Campbell (Austin TX)
Shawn Camp (Nashville TN)
Nini Camps (New York NY)
Melonie Cannon (Nashville TN)
Canoe (Austin TX)
Laura Cantrell (New York NY)
The Capitol Years (Philadelphia PA)
Brandi Carlile (Seattle WA)
Hayes Carll (Houston TX)
Cartel de Santa (Monterrey MEXICO)
Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell (Raleigh NC)
Castanets (San Diego CA)
Centro-matic (Austin TX)
Cephalic Carnage (Denver CA)
Beth Nielsen Chapman (Nashville TN)
The Chapters (Austin TX)
Charanga Cakewalk (Austin TX)
Chatham County Line (Raleigh NC)
Cheerleadr (Toronto ON)
Vic Chesnutt (Athens GA)
The Chinese Stars (Providence RI)
Chingo Bling (Houston TX)
Meg Lee Chin (London UK)
Chops (Philadelphia PA)
Chris and Thomas (Los Angeles CA)
Cinephile (Glasgow UK)
Stephen Clair (Brooklyn NY)
Gary Clark Jr. (Austin TX)
Clem Snide (Nashville TN)
Clorox Girls (Portland OR)
C-Mon&Kypski (Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS)
Coachwhips (San Francisco CA)
Dan Colehour (Cedar Rapids IA)
The Comas (Chapel Hill NC)
Comeback Kid (Winnepeg MB)
Communique (Oakland CA)
Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies (Chicago IL)
Conspiracion Alfa 5 (Guadalajara MEXICO)
controller.controller (Toronto ON)
The Coolies (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Hugh Cornwell (London UK)
Amy Correia (New York NY)
Julian Coryell (Los Angeles CA)
Elvis Costello and the Imposters (New York NY)
Sean Costello (Atlanta GA)
Cousin (Brooklyn NY)
Cowboy Mouth (New Orleans LA)
Susan Cowsill (New Orleans LA)
Graham Coxon (London UK)
The Crack Pipes (Austin TX)
Cranebuilders (Liverpool UK)
Crank County Daredevils (Asheville NC)
The Crash (Turku FINLAND)
Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves (London UK)
The Crimea (London UK)
AJ Croce (San Diego CA)
Crooked Fingers (Seattle WA)
Crossingpoint (Durban SOUTH AFRICA)
Rodney Crowell (Houston TX)
Kacy Crowley (Austin TX)
Crown City Rockers (Oakland CA)
Cruiserweight (Austin TX)
Crystal Skulls (Seattle WA)
The Cuban Cowboys (Brooklyn NY)
Cub Country (Chapel Hill NC)
Cubiky (Los Angeles CA)
Cue (Austin TX)
Cursed (Toronto ON)
Cut Copy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Cuts (Oakland CA)
The Czars (Denver CO)
Daaraj (Sengal FRANCE)
Trent Dabbs (Nashville TN)
Dabrye (Ann Arbor MI)
Dalek (New York NY)
The Damnations (Austin TX)
Damon & Naomi (Cambridge MA)
The Dan Band (Los Angeles CA)
Walter Daniels / Wade Driver (Austin TX)
Daphne Loves Derby (Seattle WA)
Darediablo (Brooklyn NY)
Dark Fog (Chicago IL)
Dash Rip Rock (New Orleans LA)
Dat Boy Mikee (Austin TX)
Devin Davis (Chicago IL)
Simon Dawes (Malibu CA)
Dawn of the Replicants (Edinburgh UK)
The Dawn Parade (Cambridge UK)
The day after... (Las Vegas NV)
Jesse Dayton (Austin TX)
Deadman (Dallas TX)
Dead Meadow (Washington DC)
Dead Sexy, Inc. (Paris FRANCE)
Dead Whale Tide (Austin TX)
The Dears (Montreal QC)
Todd Deatherage (Brooklyn NY)
Death From Above 1979 (Toronto ON)
The Deathray Davies (Dallas TX)
Decibully (Milwaukee WI)
Del Castillo (Austin TX)
Grey De Lisle (Los Angeles CA)
Kris Delmhorst (Greenfield MA)
The Departure (Northampton UK)
deSoL (Asbury Park NJ)
Detholz! (Chicago IL)
Devil In A Woodpile (Chicago IL)
Devin the Dude (Houston TX)
DeVotchka (Denver CO)
D:FUSE (Austin TX)
Rob Dickinson (Los Angeles CA)
Tina Dico (Denmark DENMARK)
Die Princess Die (Hollywood CA)
Dierdre (Paris FRANCE)
The Dime Store Poets (Austin TX)
Dios Malos (Hawthorne CA)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
Diplo of Hollertronix (Philadelphia PA)
Ditty Bops (Los Angeles CA)
Dixie Witch (Austin TX)
DJ Jester the Filipino Fist and QuadRod (San Antonio TX)
DJ Logic (Bronx NY)
DJ Panko (Barcelona SPAIN)
DJ Rapid Ric (Austin TX)
DJ Rhettmatic (Los Angeles CA)
DMBQ (Tokyo JAPAN)
Dr. Dog (Philadelphia PA)
Dr. Pepper Family (Gent BELGIUM)
John Doe (Los Angeles CA)
Dogs (London UK)
Dogs Die in Hot Cars (Glasgow UK)
Dolorean (Portland OR)
Dolour (Seattle WA)
The Donnas (Palo Alto CA)
The Double (New York NY)
Mike Doughty (New York NY)
Doves (Manchester UK)
The Downbeat 5 (Boston MA)
Johnny Dowd (Albany NY)
Dremnt the End (Austin TX)
Drop Trio (Houston TX)
Drunk Horse (Oakland CA)
Chris Duarte (Austin TX)
Dub Trio (New York NY)
The Duhks (Winnipeg MB)
The Duke Spirit (London UK)
Liz Durrett (Athens GA)
The Earlies (Manchester UK)
Earlimart (Los Angeles CA)
Kate Earl (Los Angeles CA)
Early Man (New York NY)
Tim Easton (Akron OH)
Andrea Echeverri (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Kathleen Edwards (Ottawa ON)
The '89 Cubs (Omaha NE)
Electric Eel Shock (Tokyo JAPAN)
El Gato (Dallas TX)
Jimmy Elledge Band featuring Billy Joe Royal (New Orleans LA)
Eluvium (Seattle WA)
Emanuel (Louisville KY)
Embrace (UK)
The Emeralds (Tokyo JAPAN)
Emergency Music (Boston MA)
The End (Brampton ON)
Endochine (Austin TX)
The Ends (Austin TX)
The English Department (Brooklyn NY)
Enon (Philadelphia PA)
Epo-555 (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Ester Drang (Broken Arrow OK)
Eternia (Toronto ON)
Ever We Fall (Portland OR)
Evil Nine (London UK)
The Exit (New York NY)
Experimental Aircraft (Austin TX)
Ez T (New Orleans LA)
Faceless Werewolves (Austin TX)
Jason Falkner (Los Angeles CA)
Fantasy’s Core (Nagasaki-city JAPAN)
Fashion Flesh (Bay City MI)
Fatal Flying Guilloteens (Houston TX)
Fatboy Slim (Brighton UK)
Feable Weiner (Murfreesboro TN)
Melissa Ferrick (Boston MA)
Fielding (Orange County CA)
The Fighting Brothers McCarthy (Austin TX)
Film School (San Francisco CA)
fingathing (Manchester UK)
Firekills (Austin TX)
Fires Were Shot (Austin TX)
Harvey Sid Fisher (Los Angeles CA)
Fivehead (Austin TX)
Flametrick Subs w/ Satan's Cheerleaders (Austin TX)
Floyd Domino (Austin TX)
Ron Flynt (Austin TX)
Follow The Train (Louisville KY)
Richmond Fontaine (Portland OR)
Guy Forsyth (Austin TX)
the Forty Fives (Atlanta GA)
Ruthie Foster (Austin TX)
400 Blows (Los Angeles CA)
Frank Jordan (Sacramento CA)
Frank N Dank (Detroit MI)
Fredalba (Los Angeles CA)
French Kicks (New York NY)
Erik Friedlander (New York NY)
From Ashes Rise (Portland OR)
Edith Frost (Chicago IL)
Rachel Fuller (London UK)
Full White Drag (Windsor ON)
Functional Blackouts (Chicago IL)
the Futureheads (Sunderland UK)
David Garza (Austin TX)
Gena Rowlands Band (Washington DC)
Inara George (Los Angeles CA)
The George W Bush Singers (Austin TX)
The Get Hustle (Portland OR)
Ghosty (Lawrence KS)
Giant Drag (Los Angeles CA)
Eliza Gilkyson (Austin TX)
Doug Gillard (Cleveland OH)
Colin Gilmore (Austin TX)
The Giraffes (Brooklyn NY)
Gisli (Oslo NORWAY)
Gitogito Hustler (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Glitterati (Leeds UK)
Global Soul (Austin TX)
Gnappy (Austin TX)
Go Betty Go (Los Angeles CA)
Titan Go King's (Tokyo JAPAN)
Gold Chains & Sue Cie (San Francisco CA)
The Golden Republic (Kansas City MO)
Goldie Lookin Chain (Newport UK)
Marta Gomez (NJ)
The Good Looks (Austin TX)
The Goodwill (Huntington NY)
Gorch Fock (Austin TX)
Gore Gore Girls (Detroit MI)
The Go! Team (Brighton UK)
Grabass Charlestons (Gainesville FL)
Grady (Austin TX)
Jon Dee Graham (Austin TX)
Grand Buffet (Pittsburgh PA)
Grand Champeen (Austin TX)
Grand National (London UK)
The Grascals (Nashvile TN)
The Grates (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Gratitude (Sacramento CA)
Greater Good (Dallas TX)
Great Lake Swimmers (Toronto ON)
The Great Lines (Gillingham UK)
The Greencards (Nashville TN)
Micah Green (New York NY)
Greyhounds (Austin TX)
Gris Gris (Oakland CA)
Grupo Fantasma (Austin TX)
Guitar Wolf (Tokyo JAPAN)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion (Columbia SC)
Gyroscope (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Hacienda Brothers (Tucson AZ)
Half-handed Cloud (Berkeley CA)
Halifax (Thousand Oaks CA)
Nathan Hamilton (Austin TX)
Ed Harcourt (London UK)
Hard Place (Los Angeles CA)
Tre Hardson (Los Angeles CA)
Har Mar Superstar (Los Angeles CA)
Jesse Harris (New York NY)
Austin Hartley-Leonard (Austin TX)
The Have (Wanganui NEW ZEALAND)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw (Santa Fe NM)
Hawthorne Heights (Daytom OH)
Head of Femur (Chicago IL)
Headphones (Poulsbo WA)
The Heavenly States (Oakland CA)
The Heavy Blinkers (Halifax NS)
Hella (Sacramento CA)
Hell Is For Heroes (London UK)
HelloGoodbye (Huntington Beach CA)
Caroline Herring (Atlanta GA)
Collin Herring (Fort Worth TX)
hey willpower (San Francisco CA)
Johnny Hickman of Cracker (Ontario CA)
Hidden In Plain View (Stanhope NJ)
Missy Higgins (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The High Dials (Montreal QC)
High Speed Scene (Los Angeles CA)
The High Strung (Detroit MI)
Micah P. Hinson (Abilene TX)
Hitch (Kortrijk BELGIUM)
Robyn Hitchcock (London UK)
Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys (Kansas City KS)
Hobble (Austin TX)
Hobotalk (Edinburgh UK)
Hockey Night (St. Paul MN)
Malcolm Holcombe (Swannanoa NC)
The Hold Steady (Brooklyn NY)
Jolie Holland (San Francisco CA)
Taylor Hollingsworth (Birmingham AL)
David Holt (Austin TX)
Holy Fuck (Toronto ON)
The Honorary Title (Brooklyn, NY )
Jesca Hoop (Los Angeles CA)
Hot Buttered Rum String Band (San Francisco CA)
Hot Chip (London UK)
Hot Hot Heat (Victoria BC)
Hothouse Flowers (Dublin IRELAND)
Hot Rod Circuit (New Haven CT)
The Hot Shots (Tokyo JAPAN)
Hot Young Priest (Atlanta GA)
housewife (Austin TX)
Ian Hunter (Hoboken NJ)
Hurts to Purr (Austin TX)
Husky Rescue (Helsinki FINLAND)
I Am Kloot (Manchester UK)
Ida (Brooklyn NY)
i-dep (Tokyo JAPAN)
Idiot Pilot (Bellingham WA)
Idlewild (Edinburgh UK)
Billy Idol (Los Angeles CA)
Ignitor (Austin TX)
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (Austin TX)
The Immediate (Dublin IRELAND)
Immortal Lee County Killers (Nashville TN)
Impossible Shapes (Bloomington IN)
Jack Ingram (Dallas TX)
Irving (Silverlake CA)
ISIS (Los Angeles CA)
Dan Israel (Minneapolis MN)
Jakalope (Vancouver BC)
Jade Day (Austin TX)
The Jai Alai Savant (Chicago IL)
Jakob (Napier NEW ZEALAND)
James McMurtry (Austin TX)
Japancakes (Athens GA)
Japanther (Brooklyn NY)
Jarcrew (Cardiff UK)
Jawbone (Detroit MI)
J Church (Austin TX)
Jennifer Gentle (Padova ITALY)
Shooter Jennings (Nashville TN)
Jessie and Layla (Dublin IRELAND)
Jet By Day (Athens GA)
Jetscreamer (Denton TX)
Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops (Canton NC)
Will Johnson (Austin TX)
Daniel Johnston (Waller TX)
Thomas Denver Jonsson (Grums SWEDEN)
Juguete (Los Angeles CA)
The Juliana Theory (Latrobe PA)
Jupiter and Teardrop (Glasgow UK)
Kaddisfly (Portland OR)
Kaiser Chiefs (Leeds UK)
Kasabian (London UK)
Robert Earl Keen Band (Bandera TX)
Keren Ann (Paris FRANCE)
The Kills (London UK)
Kings Of Convenience (Bergen NORWAY)
Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival (Athens GA)
Kissinger (Austin TX)
Jeff Klein (Austin TX)
Knife in the Water (Austin TX)
Knife Party (Austin TX)
The Kodiaks (Austin TX)
Koufax (Lawrence KS)
Dayna Kurtz (Brooklyn NY)
The Lackloves (Milwaukee WI)
The Ladies and Gentlemen (Toronto ON)
Jimmy LaFave (Austin TX)
Laika & The Cosmonauts (Helsinki FINLAND)
L'altra (Chicago IL)
Ray LaMontagne (Wilton ME)
Jon Langford & the Sexy (Chicago/Seattle/Austin IL)
Langhorne Slim (Brooklyn NY)
Jeff Lang (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Large Number (London UK)
The Lascivious Biddies (New York NY)
The Lashes (Seattle WA)
La Sinfonia (Los Angeles CA)
The Last Town Chorus (Brooklyn NY)
The Latebirds (Helsinki FINLAND)
Doyle Lawson (Bristol TN)
Layton (Orange County CA)
Lazarus (San Francisco CA)
LCD Soundsystem (New York NY)
Lederhosen Lucil (Montreal QC)
Amos Lee (Philadelphia PA)
Ben Lee (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Tim Lee (Knoxville TN)
Le Force (Salt Lake City UT)
Jens Lekman (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
The Letters Organize (Atlanta GA)
Lise Liddell (Houston TX)
The Like (Los Angeles CA)
Li'l Cap'n Travis (Austin TX)
Limbeck (Orange CA)
Amy Linton of the Aislers Set (San Francisco CA)
Linus Of Hollywood (Hollywood CA)
Linus Pauling Quartet (Houston TX)
Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes (San Francisco CA)
Little Barrie (London UK)
Little Birdy (Fremantle AUSTRALIA)
Living Better Electrically (Jackson MS)
The Living Blue (Champaign IL)
Bob Livingston (Austin TX)
LMNO (Long Beach CA)
Marion Loguidice Band (New York NY)
The Longcut (Manchester UK)
Mary Lou Lord (Boston MA)
Los Mocosos (San Francisco CA)
Los Super Seven (Various )
Louis XIV (San Diego CA)
The Loved Ones (Philadelphia PA)
The Love Scene (Chester NJ)
Love Tractor (Athens GA)
Low Frequency In Stereo (Haugesund NORWAY)
LRJ (Houston TX)
Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters (New York NY)
Lucero (Memphis TN)
Ludicra (San Francisco CA)
Luke Temple (Seattle WA)
Mae (Norfolk VA)
The Magic Numbers (London UK)
Magnet (Bergen NORWAY)
Magneta Lane (Toronto ON)
Magnolia Electric Co. (Indianapolis IN)
Mahjongg (Chicago IL)
Mainline (Dublin IRELAND)
The Makers (Portland OR)
Stephen Malkmus (Portland OR)
Mark Mallman (Minneapolis MN)
Raul Malo (Nashville TN)
Mandarin (Denton TX)
Manikin (Austin TX)
Manishevitz (Chicago IL)
Aimee Mann (Los Angeles CA)
Maplewood (Brooklyn NY)
Marah (Philadelphia PA)
Marbles (Lexington KY)
Mare (Toronto ON)
Marlowe (Liverpool UK)
Craig Marshall (Austin TX)
The Martinets (New York NY)
The Martini Henry Rifles (Cardiff UK)
Willy Mason (Marthas Vineyard MA)
Matt the Electrician (Austin TX)
Max Cady (Dallas TX)
Maximo Park (Newcastle UK)
Matt Mays & El Torpedo (Dartmouth NS)
Kathy McCarty (Austin TX)
Rob McColley (Austin TX)
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band (Austin TX)
Mean Reds (Tuscon AZ)
The Meat Purveyors (Austin TX)
Melee (Orange CA)
Menomena (Portland OR)
The Mercury Stars (Brooklyn NY)
Metal Urbain (Paris FRANCE)
mewithoutyou (Philadelphia PA)
M.I.A. (London UK)
Midlake (Denton TX)
Midnight Movies (Los Angeles CA)
Raul Midon (New York NY)
Migas (Austin TX)
Million Dollar Marxists (Ottawa ON)
Milton Mapes (Austin TX)
Minibosses (Tempe AZ)
The Mint Chicks (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Eugene Mirman (New York NY)
Tricia Mitchell (Austin TX)
The Moaners (Chapel Hill NC)
Mobius Band (New York NY)
Modey Lemon (Pittsburgh PA)
Mojoe (San Antonio TX)
Mommy and Daddy (New York NY)
Money Money (Peterborough ON)
Money Waters (Dallas TX)
Mono (Tokyo JAPAN)
Ronnie Montrose (Sacramento CA)
Mood Ruff (Winnipeg MB)
Moonlight Towers (Austin TX)
Abra Moore (Austin TX)
Ian Moore (Vashon Island WA)
More Dogs (Baltimore MD)
Gurf Morlix (Austin TX)
The Morning After Girls (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Morningwood (New York NY)
Mosquitos (New York NY)
Moviola (Columbus OH)
Munly (Denver CO)
Alexi Murdoch (Los Angeles CA)
Michael Martin Murphey (Plano TX)
The Music (Leeds UK)
Musical Youth (Birmingham UK)
M. Ward (Portland OR)
MXPX (Bremerton WA)
Nada Surf (Brooklyn NY)
Nashville Pussy (Atlanta GA)
The National (New York NY)
Nebula (Los Angeles CA)
The Nein (Durham NC)
Neville Brothers (New Orleans LA)
Jud Newcomb (Austin TX)
Harris Newman (Montreal QC)
New Model Army (Bradford UK)
Scout Niblet (Nottingham UK)
The Nice Ones (Montreal QC)
NickNack (Austin TX)
Nieminen & Litmanen (Helsinki FINLAND)
Nightingales (Birmingham UK)
Nine Black Alps (Manchester UK)
Niño Astronauta (Ensenada MEXICO)
Don Nino (Paris FRANCE)
Nizlopi (Leamington Spa UK)
NLF3 (Paris FRANCE)
noJazz (Paris FRANCE)
No Luck Club (Vancouver BC)
Nona Hendryx (New York NY)
Noodles (Tokyo JAPAN)
Norfolk and Western (Portland OR)
Nouvelle Vague (Paris FRANCE)
Novillero (Winnipeg MB)
NRA (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Alecia Nugent (Hickory Grove LA)
Numbers (San Francisco CA)
Nural (La Crescenta CA)
The Observers (Portland OR)
The Ocean Blue (Hershey PA)
Nora O'Connor (Chicago IL)
The Octopus Project (Austin TX)
Of Montreal (Athens GA)
Oh,Beast! (Austin TX)
Ojos De Brujo (Barcelona SPAIN)
The Oktober People (Albuquerque NM)
Old Man River (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Old Reliable (Edmonton AB)
The Old-Timerz (Austin TX)
Oliver Future (Austin TX)
127 (Tehran IRAN)
One Umbrella (Austin TX)
The Oranges Band (Baltimore MD)
Ordinary Boys (Worthing UK)
Original Sinners (Los Angeles CA)
Outrageous Cherry (Detroit MI)
Calvin Owens’ Blues Orchestra (Houston TX)
Oxbow (San Francisco CA)
Oxes (Baltimore MD)
Oxford Collapse (Brooklyn NY)
Pacific UV (Athens GA)
Paik (Detroit MI)
Palaxy Tracks (Chicago IL)
Brent Palmer (Austin TX)
Palomar (Brooklyn NY)
The Panda Band (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Panic Cell (Kent UK)
Panthers (New York NY)
the pAper chAse (Dallas TX)
Papercuts (San Francisco CA)
Paper Moon (Winnipeg MB)
The Parkas (London ON)
Anders Parker (Brooklyn NY)
Parker and Lily (Athens GA)
Patrick Park (Denver CO)
Parlour (Louisville KY)
Parts & Labor (Brooklyn NY)
Paul K and the Weathermen (Louisville KY)
Paul the Girl (London UK)
Polly Paulusma (London UK)
The Paybacks (Detroit MI)
PDHM (London UK)
Pedro The Lion (Seattle WA)
the Peels (San Francisco CA)
Pelican (Chicago IL)
Perceptionists (Boston MA)
Petty Booka (Tokyo JAPAN)
Glen Phillips (Santa Barbara CA)
Gretchen Phillips (Austin TX)
Phoenix (Paris FRANCE)
Phosphorescent (Athens GA)
Picastro (Toronto ON)
Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel (Naples ITALY)
The Pierces (New York NY)
Pig Destroyer (Bethesda MA)
Patrice Pike (Austin TX)
Pilaseca (San Miguel Allende Gto MEXICO)
the pillows (Tokyo JAPAN)
Pilotdrift (Texarkana TX)
Bonnie Pink (Tokyo JAPAN)
The Pink Swords (Austin TX)
Pitty Sing (New York NY)
Robert Plant (UK)
Plastilina Mosh (Moneterrey MEXICO)
Pleasant Grove (Dallas TX)
The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower (San Diego CA)
Pluto (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Po' Girl (Vancouver BC)
Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)
Pong (Austin TX)
Pony Up! (Montreal QC)
Porn (San Francisco CA)
Powersolo (Copenhagen DENMARK)
The Pretty Please (Austin TX)
Priestess (Montreal QC)
The Priests (Rochester NY)
Prosaics (New York NY)
Punish The Atom (Nottingham UK)
Pure Reason Revolution (Reading UK)
The Queers (Atlanta GA)
Radar Brothers (Los Angeles CA)
Radio 4 (Brooklyn NY)
Radiogram (Vancouver BC)
Radio Nationals (Seattle WA)
Raking Bombs (Vancouver BC)
Jon Randall (TX)
Ratatat (Brooklyn NY)
The Raveonettes (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Harold Ray Live in Concert (Oakland CA)
Read Yellow (Amherst MA)
The Real Heroes (Austin TX)
redlightmusic (Seattle WA)
The Redwalls (Chicago IL)
The Reputation (Chicago IL)
Rescue (Detroit MI)
The Resentments (Austin TX)
Rezillos (Edinburgh UK)
Kyle Riabko (Saskatoon SK)
Johnathan Rice (Los Angeles CA)
Adam Richman (New York NY)
Stan Ridgway (Los Angeles CA)
Amy Rigby (Nashville TN)
The Rite Flyers (Austin TX)
Robbers On High Street (Brooklyn NY)
Bruce Robison (Austin TX)
Rob Sonic (New York NY)
Rockland Eagles (Austin TX)
David Rolas (Los Angeles CA)
Rolling Blackouts (Torrance CA)
Roman Candle (Chapel Hill NC)
The Rosebuds (Raleigh NC)
Eileen Rose (Boston MA)
Carina Round (London UK)
Tucker Rountree Sound (Austin TX)
Peter Rowan (Sausalito CA)
Royal Space Force (Chicago IL)
Phil Roy (Philadelphia PA)
Rufio (Rancho Cucamonga CA)
Run Chico Run (Victoria BC)
Runner and the Thermodynamics (Boston MA)
Rusty Truck (New York NY)
S (Seattle WA)
Mando Saenz (Houston TX)
The Salteens (Vancouver BC)
Samadha (Atlanta GA)
San Saba County (Austin TX)
Sasquatch (Los Angeles CA)
Saturday Looks Good To Me (Ann Arbor MI)
Saxon Shore (Philadelphia PA)
Say Anything (Los Angeles CA)
Say Hi To Your Mom (Brooklyn NY)
Tony Scalzo (Austin TX)
Scarling. (Los Angeles CA)
Ulrich Schnauss (Berlin GERMANY)
Scott H. Biram (Austin TX)
Seaflea (Austin TX)
Sea of Thousand (Austin TX)
Cheick Tidiane Seck & LesTellems (Paris FRANCE)
Edie Sedgwick (Washington DC)
Seis Pistos (Chihuahua MEXICO)
Charlie Sexton (Austin TX)
The Sexy Magazines (New York NY)
The Shapeshifters (Los Angeles CA)
Sharq (Tashkent UZBEKISTAN)
Shearwater (Austin TX)
Shellshag (San Francisco CA)
Shikasta (Toronto ON)
Michelle Shocked (Los Angeles CA)
Shonen Knife (Osaka JAPAN)
The Shore (Moonachie NJ)
Shout Out Louds (Stockholm SWEDEN)
The Sights (Detroit MI)
The Silent League (Brooklyn NY)
The Silos (New York NY)
Single Frame (Austin TX)
the Six Parts Seven (Kent OH)
Ske (Reykjavik ICELAND)
Skeletons (Oberlin OH)
Skin (Monte Carlo FRANCE)
Alex Skolnick trio (New York NY)
Robert Skoro (Minneapolis MN)
Sleater-Kinney (Portland OR)
Sluts of Trust (Glasgow UK)
Amy Smith (London UK)
Smoke or Fire (Richmond VA)
Smoosh (Seattle WA)
Todd Snider (Nashville TN)
Socratic (Cranford NJ)
Seyi Solagbade & the Blackface Band (Lagos State NIGERIA)
Some Action (New York NY)
Some Girls (San Diego CA)
Something For Rockets (Los Angeles CA)
Son Volt (St Louis MO)
Sorta (Dallas TX)
SOUND team (Austin TX)
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (Gothenberg SWEDEN)
South Austin Jug Band (Austin TX)
Southern Bitch (Athens GA)
South San Gabriel (Denton TX)
The Spades (Eindhoven THE NETHERLANDS)
Emily Sparks (Austin TX)
Sparrow (Vancouver BC)
Speedloader (Austin TX)
Spinning Chain (Austin TX)
The Spirit That Guides Us (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Spoke (Austin TX)
Spottiswoode and His Enemies (New York NY)
Squad Five-0 (Philadelphia PA)
S.Rock Levinson (London UK)
Leeroy Stagger (Victoria BC)
Chris Stamey (Chapel Hill NC)
The Stands (Liverpool UK)
Mavis Staples (Chicago IL)
Starky (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Kinnie Starr (Vancouver BC)
Stars (Montreal QC)
Statistics (Omaha NE)
Steel Pulse (Birmingham UK)
Steel Train (New York NY)
Tommy Shane Steiner (Austin TX)
The Stewart-Mayfield Project (Birmingham AL)
The Strange Boys (Dallas TX)
Straylight Run (Long Island NY)
The Strays (Los Angeles CA)
Strikeforce Diablo (Gainesville FL)
ST 37 (Austin TX)
SubArachnoid Space (San Francisco CA)
Sub Oslo (Austin TX)
The Sun (Columbus OH)
The Sundresses (Cincinnati OH)
Sunshine (Prague CZECH REPUBLIC)
Suns Owl (Tokyo JAPAN)
Supagroup (New Orleans LA)
Supersystem (Washington DC)
Surferosa (Telemark NORWAY)
Sussie 4 (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Swearing At Motorists (Dayton OH)
The Sweethearts (Austin TX)
Richard Swift (Long Beach CA)
The Swiftys (Edmonton AB)
The Sword (Austin TX)
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (Seattle WA)
James Talley (Tulsa OK)
Tammy Faye Starlite (New York NY)
Carter Tanton (Baltimore MD)
Tarantula (New York NY)
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez (New York NY)
Kim Taylor Band (Cincinnati OH)
Otis Taylor (Boulder CO)
Tegan & Sara (Vancouver BC)
Teitur (The Faroe Islands DENMARK)
Telefon Tel Aviv (New Orleans LA)
The Telepathic Butterflies (Winnipeg MB)
Tendril (Dallas TX)
Terminal (Dallas TX)
The Thermals (Portland OR)
These Arms Are Snakes (Seattle WA)
theSTART (Los Angeles CA)
The Things (Dublin IRELAND)
33hz (Brooklyn NY)
This Microwave World (Austin TX)
Th' Legendary Shack*shakers (Nashville TN)
Holly Throsby (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Thunderbirds are Now! (Detroit MI)
Tia Carrera (Austin TX)
Tight Phantomz (Chicago IL)
Pam Tillis (Nashville TN)
Timonium (Los Angeles CA)
Tom Freund (Venice CA)
Tomorrow's Friend. (Brooklyn NY)
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (New York NY)
Tracker (Portland OR)
Trae (Houston TX)
Walter Tragert (Austin TX)
Trashcan Sinatras (Glasgow UK)
Trespassers William (Los Angeles CA)
The Trews (Antigonish NS)
Tristeza (San Diego CA)
Troubled Hubble (Chicago IL)
The TunaHelpers (Austin TX)
The Turbo AC's (New York NY)
Turing Machine (Brooklyn NY)
Turzi (Paris FRANCE)
Tuxedo Killers (Austin TX)
22-Pistepirkko (Utarj i FINLAND)
22-20's (Lincoln UK)
Dwight Twilley (Tulsa OK)
Twinemen (Boston MA)
Two Cow Garage (Columbus OH)
Two Gallants (San Francisco CA)
Two Hoots and a Holler (Austin TX)
Tyrades (Chicago IL)
Ultraviolet Crown (Austin TX)
Unbusted (Martha's VIneyard MA)
Uncut (Toronto ON)
Underoath (Tampa FL)
The Upwelling (Brooklyn NY)
The Urgencies (Austin TX)
U.S.E. (Seattle WA)
The Vacation (Los Angeles CA)
Vagenius (Los Angeles CA)
Vallejo (Austin TX)
Vanilla Ice (Ft Lauderdale FL)
Vaquero (Monterrey MEXICO)
VAUX (Denver CO)
VCR (Richmond VA)
Tom Vek (London UK)
April Verch Band (Pemroke ON)
Very Be Careful (Los Angeles CA)
The Chris Vestre Group (Austin TX)
VHS or Beta (Louisville KY)
Video Screams (Austin TX)
Vietnam (Brooklyn NY)
Vinyl (Reyjavik ICELAND)
Visionaries (Los Angeles CA)
Visqueen (Seattle WA)
Viva Voce (Portland OR)
Voicst (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Volovan (Monterrey MEXICO)
Patricia Vonne (Austin TX)
Voxtrot (Austin TX)
The Waco Brothers (Chicago IL)
The Wailin' Jennys (Winnipeg MB)
Martha Wainwright (Brooklyn NY) PICTURED
Waking Ashland (San Diego CA)
The Waking Eyes (Winnipeg MB)
Maggie Walters (Austin TX)
Wan Santo Condo (Austin TX)
The Warlocks (Los Angeles CA)
We Are Scientists (Brooklyn NY)
Weary Boys (Austin TX)
The Weird Weeds (Austin TX)
West Indian Girl (Los Angeles CA)
What Made Milwaukee Famous (Austin TX)
Ralph White (Austin TX)
Whitey Houston (Edmonton AB)
William Elliott Whitmore (Montrose IA)
Nathan Wiley (Summerside PEI)
Willard Grant Conspiracy (Lancaster CA)
Holly Williams (Nashville TN)
Saul Williams (Los Angeles CA)
The Willowz (Anaheim CA)
The Winks (Austin TX)
the Woggles (Atlanta GA)
Wolfmother (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
World/Inferno Friendship Society (Brooklyn NY)
World Leader Pretend (New Orleans LA)
The World Provider (Montreal QC)
The WPP (Vancouver BC)
Writer's Block (Los Angeles CA)
Pete Wylie and the Mighty WAH! (Liverpool UK)
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 (New York NY)
Xcella (Austin TX)
Year Future (Los Angeles CA)
Yellow Swans (Oakland CA)
Yo, Gadjo! (Driftwood TX)
Hilary York (Austin TX)
Young Heart Attack (Austin TX)
Your Black Star (Louisville KY)
yourcodenameis:milo (Newcastle UK)
Yuppie Pricks (Austin CA)
Zanzo (Tokyo JAPAN)
Zykos (Austin TX)
ZZZZ (Chicago IL)
DiS will be making its very first trip out to the festival and we've just had to dry off our thighs with excitement. However, we're yet to find a hotel, anyone got any good suggestions?
DiScuss: Which of these bands suck? Which kickass? Who do you know that's playing that is missing from this gigantic list of who's-who in the indie scene? Where're the best parties at?
