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Nov 23, 2010 The Dears By Lauren Barbato

Earlier this month, the SXSW Music Festival 2011 made every audiophile’s day by unveiling the initial lineup for the five-day fest, which kicks off March 16th in Austin, Texas. Today, SXSW released a generous batch of bands—including such standouts as Casiokids, The Dears, DeVotchKa, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Joan of Arc, Vivian Girls’ side project La Sera, Noah and the Whale, Teen Daze, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and Summer Camp—that will be joining A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Nite Jewel, and Erykah Badu, to name a few, in the numerous live venues of downtown Austin. Looking over this lengthy list of must-see acts, we’re already breaking out our cowboy boots and hats. March can’t come soon enough.

Here is a complete list of the bands announced today: Alberta Cross (Brooklyn NY), AM (New Orleans LA), Asking Alexandria (York ENGLAND), Bajzel (Poznan POLAND), Bare Wires (San Francisco CA), The Bellrays (Los Angeles CA), Benjamin Francis Leftwich (York ENGLAND), Beta Wolf (Los Angeles CA), Bituaya (Caracas VENEZUELA), Black Gandhi (Barcelona SPAIN), Bleu Edmondson (New Braunfels TX), Blue King Brown (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), Bowling For Soup (Denton TX), Carter Twins (Nashville TN), Casiokids (Bergen NORWAY), Chetes (Monterrey MEXICO), City and Colour (Toronto ON), Colleen Green (Los Angeles CA), Curry & Coco (Lille FRANCE), Dame 55 (Los Angeles CA), Dawn of Ashes (Los Angeles CA), Dax Riggs (Austin TX), The Dears (Montreal QC), Demon’s Claws (Montreal CANADA), DeVotchKa (Denver CO), Eliza Doolittle (London ENGLAND), Elizabeth & the Catapult (Brooklyn NY), Endless Hallway (Los Angeles CA), Fergus & Geronimo (Brooklyn NY), Francis and the Lights (New York NY), Frazey Ford (Vancouver BC), Gary Wilson (San Diego CA) Gepe (Santiago CHILE), Grass Widow (San Francisco CA), Grieves (Seattle WA), The Happy Hollows (Los Angeles CA), Harrys Gym (Oslo NORWAY), Heavy Cream (Nashville TN), Hell & Lula (Los Angeles CA), Hey Rosetta! (St John’s NL), HORSE the band (Los Angeles CA), Ice Black Birds (Brighton ENGLAND), J Mascis (Amherst MA), Janka Nabay (SIERRA LEONE), JEFF The Brotherhood (Nashville TN), Joan of Arc (Chicago IL), Jukebox the Ghost (Washington DC), Kina Grannis (Mission Viejo CA), Kopecky Family Band (Nashville TN), La Sera (Los Angeles CA), Locos Por Juana (Bogota COLOMBIA), Maps & Atlases (Chicago IL), Mexican Institute of Sound (Mexico City MEXICO), Middle Class Rut (Sacramento CA), Morning Teleportation (Portland OR), Murfila (Barcelona SPAIN), MURS (Los Angeles CA), Noah And The Whale (London ENGLAND), North Mississippi Allstars (Hernando CO), O’Death (New York NY), Onra (Paris FRANCE), Parlor Mob (Red Bank NJ), Paul Cary (Chicago IL), Pedropiedra (Santiago CHILE) Pernett (Cali COLOMBIA), Prince Rama (Brooklyn NY), Professor Green (London ENGLAND), Protistas (Santiago CHILE), Pterodactyl (Brooklyn NY), Pujol (Nashville TN), Quintron and Miss Pussycat (New Orleans LA), Rey Pila (Mexico City MEXICO), Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL), The Secret Handshake (Dallas TX), Shuttle (Boston MA), Skrillex (Los Angeles CA), Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (Denver CO), Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL), Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Springfield MO), Sounds Under Radio (Austin TX),The Strange Boys (Austin TX), Stephen Kellogg (Northampton MA), Summer Camp (London ENGLAND), Suzanna Choffel (Austin TX), Teen Daze (Vancouver CANADA), Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA), Tôg (Stavanger NORWAY), Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN), Ty Segall (San Francisco CA), The Vaccines (London ENGLAND), Voxhaul, Broadcast (Los Angeles CA), Wagons (Melbourne AUSTRALIA), War From A Harlots Mouth (Berlin GERMANY), Whitechapel (Knoxville TN), and The Woggles (Atlanta GA).

(www.sxsw.com)