2007 SXSW Music Conference Announces Initial Band List

Press release
Source: SXSW

SXSW 2007

Over 7800 bands applied and over 1000 bands are scheduled to perform so far.

A sampling of the music festival line-up includes:

Aesop Rock (Brooklyn NY), Against Me! (Gainesville FL), Akimbo (Seattle WA), Allison (Mexico D.F. MEXICO), An Albatross (Philladelphia PA), The Apples in Stereo (Denver CO), Aqualung (South London UK), Architecture in Helsinki (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), Austin TV (Mexico City MEXICO), The Automatic (Cardiff UK), Kevin Ayers (London UK), Badly Drawn Boy (Manchester UK), Balkan Beat Box (Tel Aviv ISRAEL), Bayside (Long Island NY), Beach House (Baltimore MD), Beirut (Albuquerque NM), The Besnard Lakes (Montreal QC), Andrew Bird (Chicago IL), The Bird and the Bee (Los Angeles CA), Martina Topley Bird (London UK), Birdmonster (San Franciscio CA), Black Lips (Atlanta GA), Bloc Party (London UK), Blonde Redhead (New York NY), The Blood Arm (Los Angeles CA), Bonde do Role (Sao Paulo BRAZIL), The Bravery (New York NY), Vashti Bunyan (Edinburgh UK), Tracy Byrd (Nashville TN), Charalambides (Oakland CA), Child Abuse (San Francisco CA), Chingo Bling (Houston TX), Chingon (Austin TX), The Cinematics (Glasgow UK), Citay (San Francisco CA), Jill Cunniff (Brooklyn NY), DATAROCK (Bergen NORWAY), Deerhunter (Atlanta GA), Delorentos (Dublin IRELAND), Dengue Fever (Los Angeles CA), Errors (Glasgow UK), The Faint (Omaha NE), Ferraby Lionheart (Los Angeles CA), Field Music (Sunderland UK), The Fratellis (Glasgow UK), Fujiya & Miyagi (Brighton UK), Galactic (New Orleans LA), Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly (Southend UK), Ghostland Observatory (Austin TX), Girl Talk (Pittsburgh PA), The Good, The Bad & The Queen (London UK), Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton (Toronto ON), Albert Hammond, Jr. (New York NY), Kate Havnevik (Oslo NORWAY), The High Dials (Montreal QC), The Holloways (London UK), Hoodoo Gurus (Sydney AUSTRALIA), The Horrors (London UK), Hot Club De Paris (Liverpool UK),Benji Hughes (Charlotte NC), iLiKETRAiNS (Leeds UK), IV Thieves (Nottingham UK), Jack O and The Tearjerkers (memphis TN), Jack's Mannequin (Los Angeles CA), Georgie James (Washington DC), Jamie T (London UK), Jandek (Houston TX), Joan as Police Woman (Brooklyn NY), Daniel Johnston and the Nightmares (Waller TX), Junior Senior (Copenhagen DENMARK), KENNA (Virginia Beach VA), Keith Killgo Jazz (Washington DC), Kings of Leon (Nashville, TN), Kinski (Seattle WA), K'NAAN (Toronto ON), Tracy Lawrence (Nashville TN), Les Claypool/Electric Apricot (Sebastopol CA), Les Savy Fav (Brooklyn NY), Lethal Bizzle (London UK), Lily Allen (Hammersmith UK), Little Barrie (London UK), Little Man Tate (Sheffield UK), The Little Ones (Silverlake CA), LoneLady (Manchester UK), Lonely China Day (Beijing CHINA), The Long Winters (Seattle WA), Charlie Louvin (Manchester TN), Barbara Lynn (Beaumont TX), Magik Markers (Brooklyn NY), Malajube (Montreal QC), Mando Diao (Borlänge SWEDEN), Maneja Beto (Austin TX), Jo Mango (Glasgow UK), Maps & Atlases (Chicago IL), Willy Mason (Marthas Vineyard MA), Mastodon (Atlanta GA), Matt & Kim (Brookyln NY), Nellie McKay (New York NY), Meat Puppets (Austin TX), Metro Riots (London UK), Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) (Mexico City MEXICO), Mika (London UK), Mogwai (Glasgow UK), Money Mark (Los Angeles CA), Money Waters (Dallas TX), Thurston Moore (Northampton MA), James Morrison (London UK), The Mountain Goats (Chapel Hill NC), Muck and the Mires (Boston MA), Alexi Murdoch (London UK), MuteMath (New Orleans LA), MV/EE and The Bummer Road (Guilford VT), Johnette Napolitano (Joshua Tree CA), The 1900s (Chicago IL), Paolo Nutini (Paisley UK), The Octopus Project (Austin TX), Okkervil River (Austin TX), 120 Days (Kristiansund NORWAY), Oppenheimer (Belfast IRELAND), Ozomatli (Los Angeles CA), The Panda Band (Perth AUSTRALIA), Graham Parker (Boiceville NY), Peaches (Berlin GERMANY), Pelican (Chicago IL), Elvis Perkins (Providence RI), Peter and the Wolf (TX) (Austin TX), The Pipettes (Brighton UK), The Polyphonic Spree (Dallas, TX), The Ponys (Chicago IL), Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT), Priestess (Montreal QC), Prisonshake (St Louis MO), Psychedelic Horseshit (Columbus OH), Quetzal (Los Angeles CA), Qui w/ David Yow (Los Angeles CA), Ra Ra Riot (Syracuse NY), Razorlight (London UK), Jay Reatard (Memphis TN), Reigning Sound (Asheville NC), Gruff Rhys (Cardiff UK), Rickie Lee Jones (Chicago IL), Rodrigo y Gabriela (Terra Acida MEXICO), Sam the Sham (Memphis TN), Satellite Party (Los Angeles CA), Secondhand Serenade (Menlo Park CA), Ron Sexsmith (Toronto ON), Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton AB), The Shys (Orange County CA), Sloan (Toronto ON), Alice Smith (Brooklyn NY), Soweto Kinch (Birmingham UK), Spoon (Austin, TX), SSM (Detroit MI), The Stooges (Detroit MI), The Sunshine Underground (Leeds UK), Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hearafter (Seattle WA), Tally Hall (Ann Arbor MI), This Moment In Black History (Cleveland OH), Pam Tillis (Nashville TN), Times New Viking (Columbus OH), Tiny Masters of Today (Brooklyn NY), Tokyo Police Club (Newmarket ON), The Tragically Hip (Kingston ON), Turbonegro (Oslo NORWAY), TURZI (Paris FRANCE), Under Byen (Århus DENMARK), Valient Thorr (Chapel Hill NC), Chad VanGaalen (Calgary AB), The View (Dundee UK), Viva Voce (Portland OR), The Walkmen (Washington DC), The Watson Twins (Los Angeles CA), Mary Weiss (New York NY), Willowz (Los Angeles CA), Amy Winehouse (London UK), WinterKids (Peaslake UK), The WOMBATS (Liverpool UK), Wooden Shjips (San Francisco CA), The Young Knives (Oxford UK), Young Love (Austin TX), and Youth Group (Australia AUSTRALIA). This list is subject to change.

For a more complete list, check out our website at www.sxsw.com.

The SXSW Music Conference takes place in the Austin Convention Center and features panel discussions, mentor sessions, one-on-one interview sessions, and demo listening sessions. The SXSW Trade Show Exhibition, also in the convention center, will host an array of events and exhibitors offering a unique opportunity for performing bands and thousands of other industry professionals to meet in one-on-one scenarios and exchange information.

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