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lookin ahead to sx- first round of bands
so yeah, in case anyone missed it, the first round of bands playing sxsw was announced last week. i didn't notice, cause i was all in funfest mode. without further ado:
First Round of Official 2012 Showcasing Artists
Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
Agent Fresco (Reykjavík ICELAND)
Ambition (Halifax CANADA)
ANR (Miami FL)
Antoine Reverb (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Avalanche City (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Balthazar (Gent BELGIUM)
Bare Wires (Oakland NY)
BeatauCue (Caen FRANCE)
Bestial Mouths (Los Angeles CA)
Big Deal (London UK-ENGLAND)
Big Scary (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
Black Books (Austin TX)
The Black Ryder (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Michael Guy Bowman (Los Angeles CA)
Cashier No.9 (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Class Actress (Brooklyn NY)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland OH)
Com Truise (Princeton NJ)
Delay Trees (Helsinki FINLAND)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Marianne Dissard (Tucson AZ)
Duck Fight Goose (Shanghai CHINA)
The Ettes (Nashville TN)
Fanzine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Fat Tony (Houston TX)
FEAR (Los Angeles CA)
Free Blood (Brooklyn NY)
THE GRANNIES (San Francisco CA)
Guadalupe Plata (Andalusia-Ubeda SPAIN)
He's My Brother She's My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
Howler (Minneapolis MN)
Ice Choir (Brooklyn NY)
I Got You On Tape (Copenhagen DENMARK)
il abanico (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
Jonquil (Oxford UK-ENGLAND)
Just A Band (Nairobi KENYA)
Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles CA)
Library Voices (Regina CANADA)
Love Inks (Austin TX)
Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven (Silverlake CA)
Mahogany (Chicago IL)
Marmalakes (Austin TX)
The Men (New York City NY)
Mind Spiders (Forth Worth TX)
Motopony (Seattle WA)
Mujeres (Barcelona SPAIN)
Musikanto (Chicago IL)
My Education (Austin TX)
Niki & The Dove (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Not In The Face!! (Austin TX)
Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík ICELAND)
120 Days (Oslo NORWAY)
Outfit (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Parlotones (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Parlovr (Montreal CANADA)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT)
Pure Love (Brooklyn NY)
Molly Rankin (Charlottetown PE)
ROGe (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Peter Rosenberg (New York NY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Gabriel Santiago Quintet (Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL)
Sauti Sol (Nairobi KENYA)
Say Hi (Seattle WA)
The Scoundrels (Las Vegas NV)
Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton CANADA)
Skewby (Memphis TN)
Skinny Lister (London UK-ENGLAND)
Soft Metals (Los Angeles CA)
Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Something Fierce (Houston TX)
Sore Losers (Lancaster TX)
SPEAK (Austin TX)
Spectrals (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Spycatcher (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sudakaya (Quito ECUADOR)
Talking To Turtles (Leipzig GERMANY)
Team Me (Elverum NORWAY)
Telebit (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
THULEBASEN (København V DENMARK)
Timbuktu (Toronto ON)
Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
Turbogeist (London UK-ENGLAND)
Uncle Bad Touch (Montreal CANADA)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
UV POP (Doncaster UK-ENGLAND)
Vampillia (Tenjinmachi JAPAN)
V for Volume (Bogota COLOMBIA)
VHS or Beta (Brooklyn NY)
WAX (Dunkirk MD)
We Are The Ocean (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Barbarians (Brooklyn NY)
The Wedding Present (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Chelsea Wolfe (Los Angeles CA)
Young Magic (Brooklyn NY)
Yukon Blonde (Vancouver CANADA)
Yuksek(Paris FRANCE)
The Zoltars (Austin TX)
early standouts to me are bare wires, cloud nothings, com truise, class actress, thee oh sees, motherfucking FEAR (fff '08 vets), the ettes, mind spiders, grace potter, soft metals...
anyone that's familiar with some of these more obscure bands, i'd love to hear your recommendation(s)!
p.s. here's a really mellow indie rock instrumental that i'm diggin by real estate- kinda reminds me of old broken social scene stuff. i think real estate is coming to town next week, just dunno if i'm going yet or not.
Comments
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Mista PP said:
Cool, thanks for the post, B!!!! I caught FEAR two years ago, I think, at Emo's as part of the So Cal Invasion tour (with Agent Orange and DOA, IIRC). Lee is getting on in years (as we all are), but they still knocked out a good set. Some other great bands on that list. Hopefully it'll be a good south-by!
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:11 PM, skatie said:
Thanks for posting this! I'm pretty excited about FEAR, Thee Oh Sees and Fat Tony. :)
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, inkboy200x said:
Oh man i missed fear in 08, who knows if ill get a chance to see em at southwest. Would also like to get some Com truise and class actress action
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:51 AM, L. Zemog said:
thanks for posting this by the way...i thought they released this but i couldnt find the list for some reason
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:51 AM, L. Zemog said:
heck yeah sxsw
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:33 AM, BonnieBlowtorch said:
Hey, Byron! It was great meeting you & your lady! Did you get a chance to check out that disc? Would love to know your thoughts.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Scumbag Sean said:
FEAR is the only one that i noticed, which is pretty rad by itself! Hoping to play anohter SXSW show myself. Dont think it can top last year with the Dead Milkmen, no matter who they book though.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM, byrone said:
p.p.s. it was just 11:11 on 11-11-11. did you make a wish?