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What Mike Diver has described as a “shit-tonne” of bands have been freshly confirmed for this year’s South By South West.

Being the shit-tonne it is, we’ll cut to the chase and pick out a few we think are particularly worthy of attention:

Abe Vigoda
Apache Beat
Apes
A Place to Bury Strangers
Asobi Seksu
Atlas Sound
Be Your Own Pet
Black Mountain
Blitzen Trapper
Born Ruffians
Billy Bragg
British Sea Power
Cadence Weapon
Captain Ahab
Chrome Hoof
Citay
Clipd Beaks
Clockcleaner
The Cribs
Crystal Castles
Crystal Stilts
Cut Copy
Dalek
TheDeathSet
Debate
Destroyer
Digitalism
Diplo
Duffy
The Duke Spirit
Ecstatic Sunshine
El-P
Emmy the Great
Esser
Fanfarlo
Fluokids
Foot Village
Frightened Rabbit
Gin Palace
Gowns
Har Mar Superstar
HEALTH
High Places
Holy Fuck
I Was A Cub Scout
Ice Cube
Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit
Johnny Foreigner
J-Rocc
Jens Lekman
Lykke Li
Los Campesinos!
Madlib
John Maus
MGMT
Mika Miko
Thurston Moore
MSTRKRFT
Neon Neon
N.E.R.D.
No Age
Noah and the Whale
Okkervil River
Old Time Relijun
Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man
The Pan I Am
Dolly Parton
Parts and Labor
Pato Banton (pictured)
Ponytail
Pyschedelic Horseshit
Ra Ra Riot
Raveonettes
Santogold
Shy Child
Simian Mobile Disco
The Slits
Soiled Mattress and the Springs
Sons and Daughters
Telepathe
These New Puritans
Times New Viking
Vampire Weekend
Why?
Wooden Shjips
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo

…quite a few bands worthy of your attention there, then. South By South West, or SXSW as it’s known to the idle, will run from the 12th ‘til the 16th of March in Austin, Texas.