What am I most excited about for SXSW this year? I thought you'd never ask.
I could provide links, but I bet you know how to use Google.
Love To Listen, But Never Seen Live
Dirty Ghosts - yes.
Django Django - yes, yes.
Nite Jewel - yes, yes, yes.
Tennis - yes, yes, yes, yes.
Little Dragon - yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Tune-Yards - too many yeses for one blog post. all of the yeses. all of them.
Bear Hands - my fave new indie rock!
Baths - experimental but listenable electro something something. like Discovery, but not teeny bopper.
Generationals - when they fight, they fight.
His Clancyness - if you're gonna do chillwave, do it weird.
Sun Airway - if you're gonna do chillwave, do it sexy.
Miniature Tigers - if you're gonna do chillwave, actually do indie pop instead.
RAC DJs - they are the best remixers of the past 2 years.
Pictureplane - let us destroy the music we love.
Sharon Von Etten - one day i'll be fine with that.
Tahiti 80 - indie disco. why didn't this catch on back in the 90's??
PS I Love You - i very enjoy their yelling and anxiety.
Grimes - dark and adorable indie casio pop.
Spoek Mathambo - afro electro!
Janka Nabay - afro beat!
Lexicon - it's gonna get trashy.
Two Door Cinema Club - let us throw our hands in the air with mild smiles. it is sunny.
Wolf & Cub - it's no tom vek, but who is?
My Gold Mask - it's no coincidence they cover Bettie Davis eyes.
Yuck - 90's style indie rock.
Zola Jesus - arty goth rock, sorta.
Cloud Nothings - indie rock.
Diamond Rings - casio pop rock.
Theophilius London - such slick hip-hop, i think it'll be good.
Zowie - she had a half broken heartbeat. she had a broken machine.
New To Me!
Duzheknew - a touch of Talking Heads.
Wild Flag - Helium / Sleatter-Kinney supagroup, but better than it sounds.
Fredrik - sexy, mellow, and mumbly.
Dirty Beaches - stylish, mellow, and mumbly.
Braids - a lot of good bands sound a bit like Glasser this year.
Lanterns on the Lake - crisp and lush girl vocals, tight songwriting, sweet and dreamy.
Oldie But Goodie
Twin Shadow - everyone's gonna be there.
Surfer Blood - winner of the as good as the album award.
The Wooden Birds - i embarrassed myself fanboying on Andrew Kinney last year.
!!! - indeed.
Austra - this is what Katie Stellmanis decided to name her band.
The Dead Milkmen - less sad i missed them on my birthday.
Glasser - way to start a trend, lady.
That's it so far. Plenty more research to do.
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