Spin's 50 Must-Hear Bands from SXSW

On March 17-21, nearly 2,000 bands headed to Austin, Texas for the 23rd annual South by Southwest music conference. Every year new and old music acts go to Austin to be seen and heard by music lovers who flock there from all around the world, with music executives right there with them. But with 2,000 acts performing, how can one know what's worth going to hear? No worries - Spin Magazine compiled a list of 50 essential, must hear acts. Although SXSW is over, these are bands we should be getting familar with if we aren't already!

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The list...

SPIN's 50 MUST-HEAR BANDS AT SXSW

A - E
A CLASSIC EDUCATION, Bologna, Italy
ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM, New York, NY
OLOF ARNALDS, Reykjavík, Iceland
NICOLE ATKINS, Brooklyn, NY (via Neptune, NJ)
COAST, Los Angeles, CA
BLACKTUSK, Savannah, GA
VV BROWN, London, England
THE BRUNETTES, Auckland, New Zealand
CHATMONCHY, Tokushima, Japan
CIRCA SURVIVE, Philadelphia, PA
CODEINE VELVET CLUB, Glasgow, Scotland
THE CONSTELLATIONS, Atlanta, GA
CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, Staten Island, NY
DAS RACIST, Brooklyn, NY
EVERYBODY WAS IN THE FRENCH RESISTANCE…NOW, Los Angeles, CA

F - M
FOXY SHAZAM, Cincinnati, OH
FREE ENERGY, Philadelphia, PA
FREELANCE WHALES, Queens, NY
FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Selkirk, Scotland
FUCKED UP, Toronto, Canada
HARLEM, Austin, TX
HOLE, Los Angeles/London
HOOD INTERNET, Chicago, IL
JAPANDROIDS, Vancouver, Canada
J-RODDY WALSTON & THE BUSINESS, Baltimore, MD
THE JIM JONES REVUE, London, England
KIDZ IN THE HALL, Chicago/New Jersey
SOLANGE KNOWLES, Houston, TX
MIDLAKE, Denton, TX
MIIKE SNOW, Stockholm, Sweden
MINUS THE BEAR, Seattle, WA
THE MORNING BENDERS, San Francisco, CA

N - Z
NEON INDIAN, Austin, TX
OH NO ONO, Aalborg, Denmark
P.K. 14, Beijing, China
PHANTOGRAM, Saratoga Springs, NY
PRIESTESS, Montreal, Canada
RA RA RIOT, Syracuse, NY
RHYMEFEST, Chicago, IL
RIVAL SCHOOLS, New York, NY
ROGUE WAVE, Oakland, CA
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, Brooklyn, NY
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, San Diego, CA
SURFER BLOOD, West Palm Beach, FL
TITUS ANDRONICUS, Glen Rock, NJ
THE WAVE PICTURES, London, England
XV, Wichita, Kansas
THE XX, London, England
YELAWOLF, Gadsden, AL
YELLOW DOGS, Tehran, Iran