Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 8 February 2008
What Mike Diver has described as a “shit-tonne” of bands have been freshly confirmed for this year’s South By South West.
Being the shit-tonne it is, we’ll cut to the chase and pick out a few we think are particularly worthy of attention:
Abe Vigoda Apache Beat Apes A Place to Bury Strangers Asobi Seksu Atlas Sound Be Your Own Pet Black Mountain Blitzen Trapper Born Ruffians Billy Bragg British Sea Power Cadence Weapon Captain Ahab Chrome Hoof Citay Clipd Beaks Clockcleaner The Cribs Crystal Castles Crystal Stilts Cut Copy Dalek TheDeathSet Debate Destroyer Digitalism Diplo Duffy The Duke Spirit Ecstatic Sunshine El-P Emmy the Great Esser Fanfarlo Fluokids Foot Village Frightened Rabbit Gin Palace Gowns Har Mar Superstar HEALTH High Places Holy Fuck I Was A Cub Scout Ice Cube Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit Johnny Foreigner J-Rocc Jens Lekman Lykke Li Los Campesinos! Madlib John Maus MGMT Mika Miko Thurston Moore MSTRKRFT Neon Neon N.E.R.D. No Age Noah and the Whale Okkervil River Old Time Relijun Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man The Pan I Am Dolly Parton Parts and Labor Pato Banton (pictured) Ponytail Pyschedelic Horseshit Ra Ra Riot Raveonettes Santogold Shy Child Simian Mobile Disco The Slits Soiled Mattress and the Springs Sons and Daughters Telepathe These New Puritans Times New Viking Vampire Weekend Why? Wooden Shjips Yeasayer Yo La Tengo
…quite a few bands worthy of your attention there, then. South By South West, or SXSW as it’s known to the idle, will run from the 12th ‘til the 16th of March in Austin, Texas.