"Now in its 18th year, the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, is a veritable fantasyland for music fans. There's a nearly 24-hour-a-day onslaught of live music showcases, parties and panels, as well as a whiplash-inducing propensity to run into other journalists, publicists, long-lost friends...." Billboard.com March 19, 2004
Over twelve hundred live acts to be officially announced in February.
Official Site. SXSW Baby! Weblog.
Added by kathrynyu on September 21, 2004
With I was there. But I'm stuck in London. D'oh!
Confirmed Acts:
Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
Ambulance Ltd. (New York NY)
American Music Club (San Francisco CA)
Chingo Bling (Houston TX)
The Dears (Montreal QC)
Death From Above 1979 (Toronto ON)
Dogs Die in Hot Cars (Glasgow UK)
The Donnas (Palo Alto CA)
The Go! Team (Brighton UK)
Grand Buffet (Pittsburgh PA)
Guitar Wolf (Tokyo JAPAN)
Tre Hardson (Los Angeles CA)
Hella (Sacramento CA)
Robyn Hitchcock (London UK)
Hot Hot Heat (Victoria BC)
Husky Rescue (Helsinki FINLAND)
Billy Idol (Los Angeles CA)
Jack Ingram (Dallas TX)
Kaiser Chiefs (Leeds UK)
The Kills (London UK)
The Longcut (Manchester UK)
Aimee Mann (Los Angeles CA)
Mean Reds (Tuscon AZ)
Ronnie Montrose (Sacramento CA)
Nada Surf (Brooklyn NY)
The Raveonettes (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Rolling Blackouts (Torrance CA)
Sleater-Kinney (Portland OR)
Son Volt (St Louis MO)
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (Gothenberg SWEDEN)
22-20's (Lincoln UK)
Visionaries (Los Angeles CA)
Saul Williams (Los Angeles CA)
Badasstronaut
Robert Plant, Fatboy Slim, Beth Orton, Aimee Mann, Erykah Badu, Billy Idol, Mavis Staples