Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival may not be the most popular or the most money grossing music machine on the earth, but it certainly is the biggest music festival, which brings thousands of bands every March to the live music capital of the world. An initial lineup of performers has been announced, but you can bet that the best is yet to come. Here’s a list of some of those already confirmed for the 2010 festival.
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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO
Archie Bronson Outfit
Arms
Art vs Science
Avi Buffalo
Bear Hands
The Besnard Lakes
The Black Atlantic
Blood Warrior
B-Real (of Cypress Hill)
The Boxer Rebellion
Cale Parks
The Chevelles
CHEW LiPS
The Coathangers
Cotton Jones
The Crystal Method
Dappled Cities
Deer Tick
Desolation Wilderness
Elle Bandita
Fanfarlo
Film School
Frightened Rabbit
Giulia y los Tellarini
Ha Ha Tonka
Harlem
Headlights
The Hong Kong Blood Opera
I Fight Dragons
Icy Demons
Japandroids
John Dear Mowing Club
Jookabox
Jukebox the Ghost
The Middle East
Midlake
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Miniature Tigers
NiCad
Obits
The Pack A.D.
Parlovr
Past Lives
Plants & Animals
Princeton
Real Estate
Rebelle
Restless People
Riverboat Gamblers
Robyn Hitchcock
The Shaky Hands
Small Black
Steel Train
Still Life Still
Surfer Blood
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
The Temper Trap
Timber Timbre
Title Tracks
Twin Atlantic
The Uglysuits
U.S. Royalty
Violens
Vivian Girls
VV Brown
Warpaint
We Are Scientists
We Are The World
We Are Wolves
Woods
Woot
YellowFever
Zeus