Today we take another step towards the biggest music festival in the land, South By Southwest. The festival has announced the second round of showcasing artists for its 2019 festival, with 250 performers this time around. The festival is set to begin Monday, March 11 and will wrap up on Sunday March 17, 2019.

As usual, there are a few stand-out performers to be announced, joining the ranks of dozens of relatively unknown acts hoping to turn some heads in Austin, TX. Deerhunter recently announced Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, their Cate Le Bon-produced album scheduled for a January 18 2019 release. One of mxdwn’s favorite artists, Brooklyn indie pop quartet TEEN will also be in Austin for SXSW, joined by Oklahoma rockers BRONCHO, uniquely-named Swedish band Death by Unga Bunga, Canadian punks The Dirty Nil, Shy Boys, Tennis System, T-Rextasy, Iowa folk troubadour William Elliott Whitmore and Chicago’s Waco Brothers.

American bands playing the festival include Acid Tongue, A Deer A Horse, American Werewolf Academy, Angelica Garcia, Barbara Nesbitt, Bellows, The Bright Light Social Hour, The Brummies, Buck Gooter, Caitlyn Smith, City of the Sun, Combo Chimbita, Deezie Brown, Devon Church, Doeman, DRAMA, Dramatic Lovers, Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers, Dual Core, Ehsan Matoori, FADE, field trip, Flint Eastwood, Flower, Foie Gras, Grandchildren, Grivo, Grupo Rebolu, Hard Proof, Indianola, Harry Edohoukwa, JayDaYoungan, The Curls, Jerry Paper, JM Stevens, Jordan Moser, Julie Odell, Katy Kirby, Liily, Lizzie and The Makers, The Mammoths, Missions, Moonwalks, Mr. Kitty, Native Sun, NO WIN, OTB Fastlane, Powers Pleasant, Pleasure Jams, Prism Bitch, Profligate, Cumulus, Public Practice, Rattletree, Rose Droll, Sad Cops, Sam DeRosa, Schaffer the Darklord, Scott Yoder, SHIRAZEE, Single Lash, Sloppy Jane, Smokey Brights, smut, Soft Kill, Sophie Auster, Sulfur, Sun June, Superbody, Taco Mouth, Tameca Jones, Tasha, Termination Dust, Tobi Lou, TOMKAT, Tyler Ramsey, Vandoliers, Versus, Whitney Ballen, XIXA, The Yawpers, The Young Something and Yung Baby Tate.

The antipode of Austin is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, so it’s difficult to discern who is traveling the furthest to SXSW for 2019. African and South Asian bands likely have the furthest to travel. Bands hailing from Africa include Tribal, Urban Hype, Victoria Kimani, Yemi Alade, Adekunle Gold, Alternate Sound, Anatii, Cassper Nyovest, Dj Kess, Falz The bahdguy, Irene Ntale, Kagwe Mungai, Mr Eazi, The Muffinz, Seyi Shay, Stanley Enow, Thomas Amar-Aigbe (DJ Sose), Bisho, Salma Sky, KOMOREBI and Dream Catchers Dance Academy.

From Asia, artists include Regallily, Renick Bell, the perfect me, ASTERISM,The Lemons, CHAI,CHIU PI, CIFIKA, The Colors, DUO BUD, EggPlantEgg, Elephant Gym, I Mean Us, LEX the Lexicon Artist and My Skin Against Your Skin. European bands include ISLAND, Ivan Dorn, Jealous of the Birds, Joshua Burnside, Kapil Seshasayee, KOJAQUE, Laura Misch, Lazy Day, Lord Esperanza, Los Nastys, Lucy Spraggan, LUWTEN, Magic Potion, Marta Pereira Da Costa, MASCARIMIRI, Michael Olivera Group, Million Miles, Nadine Shah, Nancy, Natos Y Waor, Novelist, Orions Belte, Oscar Jerome, The Other End, The Pearl Harts, Pip Hall, The Qualitons, Rascalton, Recycled J, Sam Eagle, Sam Fender, ShitKid, The Snuts, Soft as Snow, Soge Culebra, Sports Team, Squid, Stealing Sheep, Rev Rev Rev, ROE, Sudakistan, Suzan Köcher, Table Scraps, Trupa Trupa, Vaarwell, Verneri Pohjola with Tuomo & Markus, Wet Dreams, whenyoung, Wolf & Moon, Talos, Yawners, Y O Y, The Zephyr Bones, Algobabez, Catnapp, The Comet is Coming, Current Affairs, Curse Of Lono, Daniel Brandt, Darling West, Das Body, Doe, Dylan Cartlidge, Elder Island, Farao, Belisha Beacon, BABii, Fatherson, Delaporte, Gallops, Black Midi, Avalanche Party, BLOXX, Honey Lung, Aries, Thyla and Gurr.

North American bands include In Mirrors, Joel Eel, Living Hour, MUNYA, Murray A. Lightburn, Royal Canoe, Sebastian Romero, The Sick Things, Tallies, Taylor Janzen, AfrotroniX, Agrupación Cariño, AQUIHAYAQUIHAY, Chastity, Construction & Destruction, DJ Rosegold, Dead Soft, Goodbye Honolulu and Graham Van Pelt.

Australian bands include Vacations, Denise le Menice, Emerson Snowe, Haiku Hands, I Know Leopard, Odette and Jo Schornikow. There’s even one artist from New Zealand, Jonathan Bree. The South American artists include Zona Tango, Amor Elefante, Boom Boom Kid, Boraj, El Gallo, Frijo, Fuglar, HOMIE, Los Gaiteros de Ovejas, Mabiland, Natalia Norte, Oddó, Stokoff, Jona Camacho, Juan Celofán and Tais Alvarenga.

Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat