SXSW LINE UP GROWS

The list of old, new and downright electrifying acts to grace the stage at SXSW just keeps getting longer. So far, The Breeders, Man Man, The Kills, Lightspeed Champion, My Morning Jacket, Jens Lekman, Sons & Daughters and These New Puritans all top the list for the March Festival in Austin.

Possibly the biggest act to be added so far is R.E.M, performing tracks from their new album ‘Accelerate’ with, hopefully, a few oldies tucked in for measure.

Also one of this years most hyped bands, Vampire Weekend, will perform and are sure to knock the socks off all those industry bods.

Other acts include:

A Place to Bury Strangers
Blitzen Trapper
My Brightest Diamond
The Black Keys
Frightened Rabbit
Bowerbirds
Foreign Born
The Raveonettes
Ralph “Soul” Jackson
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Ra Ra Riot
The Von Bondies
Hanne Hukkelberg
DeVotchKa
Sia
Uffie
MGMT

There was going to be some kind of ‘something old something new, something borrowed and something blue’ at the end of this but it didn’t quite work out.