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After last week’s announcement brought on a bevy of smaller acts, topped by established, rising talent like the Pac NW indie rock outfit Deep Sea Diver, the technical death metal group Rivers of Nihil and UK electronic act with a clever name for grammar fans, Let’s Eat Grandma.

This announcement ups the star power a bit, with several well-known acts announcing their intentions to travel to Austin, TX for the mid-March festival. Some of those names include Eisley, Frankie Rose, Sara Watkins, Deap Vally, Broncho, Mark Eitzel and Ringworm. Some exciting names that might be less well-known but you should keep an eye out for include Hand Habits, Chicano Batman and Meatbodies.

Eisley is a long-running indie pop outfit out of Texas. It has been a few years of relative inactivity from the group, but that silence was broken in late 2016 when they released their first new song in three years, “Defeatist.” The band will be releasing their fifth full length album, I’m Only Dreaming on February 17 through Equal Vision Records. Deap Vally, a flamboyant, hard-rocking feminist duo from Los Angeles, just dropped an LP as well. The band released their sophomore effort, Femijism in September.

Once a part of the massively successful bluegrass band Nickel Creek, Sara Watkins will bring her low-key solo material out to Austin as well. She released her third solo album in July, the well-received In All The Wrong Ways. Frankie Rose also used to be part of a band that is iconic within their genre, Vivian Girls (and wrote what is arguably their best song, “Where Do You Run.”) Rose played drums on the band’s first LP, the lo-fi classic Vivian Girls.

SXSW 2017 Seventh Round of Showcasing Artists

Al Lover (San Francisco CA)
Annabelle Chairlegs (Austin TX)
Tje Austin (Austin TX)
Ayo Jay (Lagos LA)
The Band Called Fuse (New York NY)
Ant Beale (Gloucester City NJ)
Beard the Lion (Austin TX)
BeLL (Los Angeles CA)
BIA (Boston MA)
Jade Bird (London UK-ENGLAND)
Charly Black (Trelawny JAMAICA)
The Bright Light Social Hour (Austin TX)
Broncho (Tulsa OK)
Dylan Cameron (Austin TX)
Chantae Cann (Atlanta GA)
Garrett T. Capps (San Antonio TX)
CB5 (Clevland OH)
Chicano Batman (Los Angeles CA)
Beth Chrisman (Austin TX)
Country Cousins (Austin TX)
Dams of the West (Upper Freehold Township NJ)
Danny Golden (Austin TX)
Jesse Dayton (Austin TX)
Deap Vally (Los Angeles CA)
Death Will Tremble (Austin TX)
Del Paxton (Buffalo NY)
Alvaro Diaz (San Juan PUERTO RICO)
DJ Versus (Austin TX)
Dopebyaccident (Memphis TN)
Eisley (Tyler TX)
Mark Eitzel (Los Angeles CA)
Javier Escovedo (Lodi CA)
Everyone Is Dirty (Oakland CA)
Deniro Farrar (Charlotte NC)
Feralucia (Medellín COLOMBIA)
Carl Fontaine (Akron OH)
Free Radicals (Houston TX)
Fully Focus (Atlanta GA)
Jon Dee Graham (Austin TX)
Grandpa Death Experience (Amsterdam NETHERLANDS)
GT (Birmingham AL)
Hand Habits (Los Angeles CA)
Houses of Heaven (San Francisco CA)
Infinity Shred (New York NY)
In The Valley Below (Grand Rapids MI)
Jazzamboka (Montréal CANADA)
Jim-E-O (Austin TX)
J. Monty (Jonesboro GA)
Karakoram (Santiago CHILE)
Karlon (Bronx NY)
Kat&Jared (Temple TX)
Julian King (Philadelphia PA)
KP tha Profit (San Antonio TX)
The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band (BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO BAND) (Lafayette LA)
Los Outsaiders (Lima PERU)
Erick Lottary (Fayetteville NC)
Lovella (Nashville TN)
Madame Récamier (Mexico City MEXICO)
M.A.D.E 4 Christ (Atlanta GA)
Majozi (Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA)
MAMA (Chicago IL)
Mama K & The Shades (Austin TX)
Austin Martin (Austin TX)
Meatbodies (Los Angeles CA)
Melkbelly (Chicago IL)
Rich Minus Tribute with Eric Hisaw (San Antonio TX)
Mise en Scene (Winnipeg CANADA)
Miyavi (Tokyo JAPAN)
Mobsquad Nard (Jacksonville FL)
Moby Grape’s Peter Lewis (San Francisco CA)
Modern Vices (Chicago IL)
Mother Falcon (Austin TX)
Mula Gang (Sacramento CA)
Only Now (San Francisco CA)
OSHUN (Brooklyn NY)
Paradox Black (Dox) (San Jose CA)
Grace Park (of The Deer) (San Marcos TX)
PLS&TY (Palm Beach FL)
Protex (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Pujol (Nashville TN)
Queen of Jeans (Philadelphia PA)
Question (San Antonio TX)
Rap Legend Jesse Dangerously (Ottawa CANADA)
Emily Reo (Brooklyn NY)
Reonda (Brooklyn NY)
The Reputations (Austin TX)
Glenn Rexach Group (Austin TX)
Graham Reynolds & Golden Arm Trio (Austin TX)
Ringworm (Cleveland OH)
Chris Rivers (Bronx NY)
Robotaki (Toronto CANADA)
Roj Müzik (Mercin TURKEY)
Frankie Rose (Brooklyn NY)
Ruido Rosa (Mexico City MEXICO)
Samito (Montréal CANADA)
Cal Scruby (Cincinnati OH)
Sextile (Los Angeles CA)
Shonlock (Acworth GA)
Show Louis (Houston TX)
Silverio (Mexico City MEXICO)
Snail Mail (Baltimore MD)
Son Fjord (Austin TX)
Sound Mass (Austin TX)
Alexis Spight (Buffalo NY)
Statik Selektah (Brooklyn NY)
Steve James (Johnstown PA)
St. Lenox (Brooklyn NY)
Sungod (Austin TX)
Supraman (Austin TX)
Telephone Lovers (Long Beach CA)
Tombs (New York NY)
To Whom It May (Galveston TX)
Twist (Toronto CANADA)
Jarreau Vandal (Amsterdam NETHERLANDS)
The Wagoneers (Austin TX)
Sara Watkins (Los Angeles CA)
We Are Wolves (Montréal CANADA)
Welles (Fayetteville AR)
Western Star (Baltimore MD)
Alex Wiley (Chicago IL)
Anna Wise (Brooklyn NY)
Woody (Delft NETHERLANDS)
The World Over (Los Angeles CA)
YodaSlim (Dallas TX)
Young M.A (Brooklyn NY)
ytcracker (Colorado Springs CO)