If I Were To Attend, SXSW Must See Bands

If I were lucky enough to have the time and funds to attend this year's South by Southwest Music Festival (just a short drive north), these are just some of the acts/bands I would love be in attendance for [maybe you'll get to go]:

Single Performances Worth Seeing - Wednesday March 18th

dd/mm/yyyy - experimental indie rock with a lot of percussion
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center (2 pm) OR Emo's Jr (12 am)

Crocodile - quirky indie pop rock with bouncy beats
Wave Rooftop (8 pm)

Starf*cker - synth-heavy indie rock with catchy pop hooks
Radio Room (9 pm)

Winter Gloves - chill groove synth electropop
Habana Calle 6 Patio (10 pm)

Fol Chen - indie pop touching on indietronica sound with mainstream influences
Beauty Bar (10pm)

Port O'Brien - indie rock with a folksy twist
Buffalo Billiards (10pm)

Dan Auerbach - Black Keys guitarist/frontman goes solo
The Parish (10:45 pm)

Miniature Tigers - alternative, poppy indie rock
Spiro's (11pm)

Mother Mother - modernized take on indie pop rock
Habana Calle 6 Patio (1am)

If You Can Only Be One Place:

If you have limited time and money, plan on being at Vice where Cut Off Your Hands, The Von Bondies, Peter, Bjorn, and John, and Glasvegas are playing.

Single Performances Worth Seeing - Thursday March 19th

Arkells - Canadian indie rockers
Cedar Street Courtyard (8:30 pm)

Bishop Allen - rockin' indie pop from the BK
Mohawk Patio (8:50 pm)

The Wet Secrets - unique indie rock with horn section
El Sol y La Luna (9 pm)

Vivian Girls - Brooklyn punk outfit for indie music lovers
Aces Lounge (9 pm)

Dirty Projectors - Brooklyn experimental indietronica
Emo's Annex (9 pm)

Meat Puppets - classic grunge rockers re-up for reunion of band and sound
Stubb's (9 pm)

The Henry Clay Project - L.A. rock quartet much in fashion of The Replacements
The Independent (10 pm)

Crystal Stilts - indie psychedelic rock with punkish influences
Red 7 Patio (10 pm)

The Thermals - Portland, high-energy, alternative indie punk rockers
Red Eyed Fly (10pm)

Two Hours Traffic - alternative feeling indie rock
El Sol y La Luna (11 pm)

Golden Filter - NY based electronica/pop group with a lot of buzz
Beauty Bar (11:45 pm)

Blizten Trapper - Portland, Sub Pop indie rock artist
Radio Room Patio (12 am)

Blind Pilot - Portland, Oregon indie pop
Club de Ville (12 am)

Women - indie rock with a smoother, chill groove feel
Mohawk (12 am)

Army Navy - pop rock with melodic indie incantations
BD Riley's (1 am)

If You Can Only Be One Place:
La Zona Rosa with Dananananaykroyd (8:30 pm), Camara Obscura (9:30 pm), and Glasvegas (11:30 pm)

Single Perfomances Worth Seeing - Friday March 20th

Shiny Toy Guns - indie electro rock band based outta OKC
SXSW Live (The Bat Bar) Austin Convention Center (8 pm)

The Uglysuit - Oklahoma-grown indie rock Flamingo Cantina (9 pm)

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - unique take on indie pop with banjo & horns

Momo's (9pm)

Datarock - indie rock electronica in fashion of DEVO and Talking Heads
Austin Music Hall (10 pm)

The Cute Lepers - mod styled, modern indie punk with pop tendencies
Red 7 Patio (10:45 pm)

Japanese Motors - beach version of The Strokes' kind of indie rock
Emo's Main Room (11 pm)

Grizzly Bear - experimental/freak indie folk rock
Cedar Street Courtyard (11:45 pm)

St. Vincent - Dallas songstress Annie Clark showing versatile indie rock flair
Antone's (12am)

Laura Marling - British singer-songwriter who delivers distinctive indie folk
Central Presbyterian Church (12 am)

The Bird and The Bee - melodic electropop
Karma Lounge (12 am)

Japanther - high-energy, goofball indie punk
Headhunters (12:05 am)

Asobi Seksu - sweet sounding Brooklyn indie rock popsters with shoegaze feel
Habana Calle 6 Patio (1 am)

Okkervil River - local Austin indie rock with a catchy nature
The Parish (1 am)

Single Performances Worth Seeing - Saturday March 21st

Say Hi - Seattle based rock sound by way of Brooklyn
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center (1 pm)

Fastball - 90's Austin alt-rockers making noise on scene once again
Auditorium Shores Stage (Lady Bird Lake) (4:50 pm)

White Lies - indie rock that is dark, moody, and dense from London
Stubb's (7:40 pm)

Explosions In The Sky - Austin area post-rock band high on instrumentals
Auditorium Shores Stage (Lady Bird Lake) (8 pm)

Iran - indie noise pop-rock at its best
Club de Ville (8 pm)

Gentleman Reg - indie rock singer-songwriter
Beauty Bar (9 pm)

Harlem - Austin duo with indie rockness in their jamming bodies
Beauty Bar Backyard (9:05 pm)

Hollerado - quirky, catchy, on-the-fly Canadian indie rock
Beauty Bar (10 pm)

The Hours - British post-punk, alternative rockers
Dirty Dog Bar (11 pm)

Voxtrot - Austin indie pop rock
Emo's Jr (11 pm)

The Mae Shi - L.A. experimental, electronic indie rock
Mohawk Patio (11 pm)

Echo and The Bunnymen - Liverpool, England new ravers and rockers
Rusty Spurs (12 am)

Silversun Pickups - L.A. indie rockers who provide melodic tunes
Antone's (12 am)

Ra Ra Riot - Syracuse, NY indie pop featuring cello and violin
The Parish (1 am)

The Spinto Band - Wilmington, DE indie popsters with rock infusions
Room 710 (1 am)

If You Can Only Be One Place:

Maggie Mae's is the place to be on Saturday night. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The Little Ones, Anya Marina, The Republic Tigers, Youth Group, Your Vegas appear all in one venue from 8 pm - 1 am!