Between March 16th and 18th on over 60 stages, SXSW will descend upon Austin, Texas. With over 7800 band applications and more than 1000 scheduled to play so far, here’s the initial lineup of SXSW 2007.

Immdediate eye-catchers are:

Bloc Party
Aesop Rock
Badly Drawn Boy
Blonde Redhead
Hoodoo Gurus
Dengue Fever
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
Emily Haines & Soft Skeleton
Les Savy Fav
Les Claypool/Electric Apircot
Lily Allen
Mastodon
Meat Puppets
The Stooges
Mogwai
Thurston Moore
The Mountain Goats

Here’s the rest of the initial lineup:

Against Me!

Akimbo
Allison
An Albatross
The Apples in Stereo
Aqualung
Architecture in Helsinki
Austin TV
The Automatic
Kevin Ayers
Balkan Beat Box
Bayside
Beach House
Beirut
The Besnard Lakes
Andrew Bird
The Bird and the Bee
Martina Topley Bird
Birdmonster
Black Lips
The Blood Arm
Bonde do Role
The Bravery
Vashti Bunyan
Tracy Byrd
Charalambides
Child Abuse
Chingo Bling
Chingon
The Cinematics
Citay
Jill Cunniff
DATAROCK
Deerhunter
Delorentos
Errors
The Faint
Ferraby Lionheart
Field Music
The Fratellis
Fujiya & Miyagi
Galactic
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Ghostland Observatory
Girl Talk
Kate Havnevik
The High Dials
The Holloways
The Horrors

Hot Club De Paris

Benji Hughes
iLiKETRAiNS

IV Thieves

Jack O and The Tearjerkers

Jack’s Mannequin

Georgie James
Jamie T
Jandek
Joan as Police Woman
Daniel
Johnston and the Nightmares
Junior Senior
KENNA
Keith Killgo Jazz
Kinski
K’NAAN
Tracy Lawrence

Lethal Bizzle
Lily Allen
Little Barrie
Little Man Tate
The Little Ones

LoneLady
Lonely China Day
The Long Winters
Charlie Louvin
Barbara Lynn

Magik Markers
Malajube
Mando
Diao
Maneja Beto
Jo Mango
Maps
& Atlases
Willy Mason
Matt & Kim
Nellie McKay
Metro Riots
Mexican Institute of Sound
Mika
Mogwai
Money Mark
Money Waters

James Morrison
Muck and
the Mires
Alexi Murdoch
MuteMath
MV/EE and The Bummer Road
Johnette Napolitano
The 1900s
Paolo Nutini
The Octopus Project

Okkervil River
120 Days
Oppenheimer
Ozomatli
The Panda Band

Graham Parker
Peaches
Pelican
Elvis Perkins
Peter and the Wolf
The Pipettes
The Polyphonic Spree
The Ponys
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Priestess
Prisonshake
Psychedelic Horseshit

Quetzal
Qui w/ David Yow
Ra Ra Riot
Razorlight
Jay Reatard
Reigning Sound (
Gruff Rhys
Rickie Lee Jones

Rodrigo y Gabriela
Sam the Sham
Satellite Party
Secondhand Serenade
Ron Sexsmith
Shout Out Out Out Out
The Shys

Sloan
Alice Smith
Soweto
Kinch
Spoon
SSM
The Stooges

The Sunshine Underground
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet
Hearafter
Tally Hall
This Moment In Black
History
Pam Tillis
Times New Viking

Tiny Masters of Today
Tokyo Police Club

The Tragically Hip
Turbonegro
TURZI
Under Byen
Valient Thorr
Chad VanGaalen
The View
Viva Voce
The Walkmen
The Watson Twins
Mary
Weiss
Willowz
Amy Winehouse
WinterKids
The WOMBATS
Wooden Shjips
The Young Knives
Young Love and
Youth Group