Almost exactly on schedule with last year, the annual South by Southwest Music Festival has announced early the first wave of scheduled performers. Unlike last year though, now they’ve already announced 229 scheduled performances. Expect many more waves of scheduled performers to be announced over the next 4 months or so. We’ll keep you posted right here as each new wave is announced.
UPDATE 1 – 12/6/12: A second round of performing bands has been announced.
UPDATE 2 – 1/11/13: A third round of performing bands has been announced including Vampire Weekend, Tegan & Sara, IO Echo and more.
UPDATE 3 – 2/1/13: A fourth round of performing bands has been announced including Jim James, Andrew WK, The Pharcyde and more.
UPDATE 4 – 2/22/13: A fifth round of performing bands has been announced including Amanda Palmer, Phosphorescent, Captain Murphy and more.
For this first wave of SXSW 2013 there’s no shortage of top-notch talent. mxdwn favorites (and a previous Best of SXSW for us) Akron/Family are returning, as well as recent Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, Klaxons, Thurston Moore, Marnie Stern, Amon Tobin, The Zombies and so many, many more. Keep in mind, it is possible that some announced bands may drop out before the festival–Metric was announced last year and then quietly pulled out–so keep checking here as the weeks tick on.
SXSW 2013 takes place Tuesday, March 12 – Sunday, March 17, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
South By Southwest Music Festival 2013 Lineup:
Akron/Family
Albatross
Alt-J
Lauren Aquilina
Atlas Genius
Attomica
Authorities
Autosalvage
The Away Days
Daniel Bachman
BADBADNOTGOOD
Baishui
Bastille
Battleme
Bernhoft
The Black and White Years
The Blackout
Black Pistol Fire
Blackstone Rangers
The Blue Van
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers
BNegão & Seletores de Frequência
Boats
The Boxing Lesson
Jesse Boykins III
Brendan Benson
Broncho
Brothers In Law
Brutality Will Prevail
Brutal Juice
Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown
Buck 65
The Bug
Eric Burdon
Tego Calderon
The Calm Blue Sea
Campo
Cave Painting
Cayucas
Cello Fury
Cheers Elephant
The Chevelles
Charlotte Church
Churchill
CINE
Civil Twilight
Chris Cohen
Coldcut
Congo Natty
The Congregation
Constantina
John Cooper Clarke
Crooks
Current Swell
Dash Rip Rock
Sammy Decoster
Dels
Mac DeMarco
Luther Dickinson
DJ Edu
Dolores Boys
Doyle
Driver Friendly
Drop The Lime
Ben Dukes
The Dunwells
Dusted
Eagulls
Tim Easton
Elias Haslanger
Ronnie Fauss
Fear Of Men
Fister
Follakzoid
fo/mo/deep
Forests
Fredda
Funeral Suits
Ezra Furman
Galaxy Express
Gallows
Gato 6
Ghost to Falco
GHXST
Colin Gilmore
Gliss
Gold Fields
Jenn Grant
Guards
Haim
Hashback Hashish
Hawthorne Heights
Heidi Happy
Ryan Hemsworth
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister
Hexvessel
Highasakite
Hiss Golden Messenger
The Holydrug Couple
Holy Esque
HolySexyBastards
Howling Brothers
Peggy Hsu
Huehuetl
Humans
Il Pan del Diavolo
Immanu El
In-Flight Safety
Tiago Iorc
Islet
ITAL
Sarah Jaffe
Jonathan Toubin
Matthew Perryman Jones
Jung People
Grace Kelly
Klaxons
Jess Klein
La Chiva Gantiva
La Cuneta Son Machín
Language Room
Marit Larsen
The Last Bison
League of Extraordinary G’z
Lecrae
Les Mentettes
The Linus Pauling Quartet
Los Bunkers
the Lost Maples
Emma Louise
Lu Horta
Luke Sital-Singh
Mahogany
Massive Scar Era
Mavin All Stars
Mike and the Moonpies
Andy Mineo
Derek Minor
Modestep
Mompox
Monster Cat
Ian Moore
Thurston Moore
Daniel Mustard
Muthoni The Drummer Queen
My Education
My Jerusalem
Nerves Junior
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Nubes en mi Casa
Of Mice & Men
Pacific Air
PAJARO
Doe Paoro
Paper Lions
Triana Park
Peterson Brothers Band
Pokey LaFarge
The Postelles
Promise
Pumcayo
Quiet Company
David Ramirez
The Relatives
Remate
Reptile Youth
The Rocketboys
Roge
Said The Whale
The Sam Willows
San Cisco
Satchel Grande
Danny Schmidt
Seth Sentry
Shakey Graves
Silencio
Six60
Sizarr
Small Black
Sahara Smith
Smoosh
Social Studies
Soley
Somebody’s Darling
The Sour Notes
Spain
Spindrift
The Spring Standards
Star & Micey
The Staves
Marnie Stern
Jake Stone Garage
Suie Paparude
Supersubmarina
Suuns
Swamp Cabbage
Swim Deep
Tako Lako
TAM
Hudson Taylor
Tedashii
Kristian Terzic Band
Tesoro
The Harlequins
Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic
Thi’sl
Tipo Uísque
Amon Tobin
Toddla T
The Trews
Truth Universal
Turbina
Turbo Fruits
Two Hours Traffic
Vaudeville Smash
The Vespers
Virals
Zak Waters
While She Sleeps
Glenn White
White Lung
Why?
Wild Cub
Wizkid
Carolyn Wonderland
WonFu
Woodpigeon
Young Von
The Zombies