SXSW unveils its (giant) lineup

As reported on this blog two days ago, Bonnaroo's lineup was just announced. Today, the South By Southwest (more familiarly known as SXSW) Festival followed suit, and it's a big one. Here is the abridged version of the SXSW lineup (it's really, really, really long). If you want to see the complete, mammoth lineup, go here:

http://2008.sxsw.com/music/festival/alphalist/

But here is the lineup as diluted for your convenience and sanity by us here at Never Learned to Swim:


Aberfeldy, Akron/Family, A Place To Bury Strangers, Joseph Arthur, Asobi Seksu, Atlas Sound, Augustana, David Banner, David Bazan, Be Your Own Pet, Black Mountain, Blitzen Trapper, The Blow, Bodies of Water, Bon Iver, Bound Stems, Billy Bragg, British Sea Power, Cary Brothers, Colour Revolt, The Concretes, Constantines, The Cool Kids, The Cribs, Cryptacize, Destroyer, Devastations, Kevin Devine, DeVotchKa, The Donnas, The Drams, Dr. Dog, Jakob Dylan, Earlimart, Tim Easton, El-P, Caleb Engstrom, Fastball, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Film School, Fleet Foxes, Foreign Born, Matthew Good, Handsome Furs, Ed Harcourt, HEALTH, The Heavenly States, Holy Fuck, Ice Cube, Brendan James, Joan of Arc, Greg Laswell, Jens Lekman, The Lemonheads, Longwave, Los Campesinos!, Mac Lethal, Madlib, Man Man, Meiko, MGMT, Raul Midon, Moby, Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), Peter Moren (of Peter, Björn, and John), The Most Serene Republic, MSTRKRFT, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, Jim Noir, Office, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Dolly Parton (yes, that Dolly Parton), People In Planes, Peter and the Wolf, Phosphorescent, The Presidents of The United States of America ("Millions of peaches, peaches for me..."), Joshua Radin, The Raveonettes, The Redwalls, R.E.M., Robyn, Rogue Wave, RX Bandits, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Sea Wolf, Shout Out Louds, Simian Mobile Disco, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Son, Ambulance, Sons & Daughters, The Stills, Kelley Stoltz, The Submarines, Tech N9ne, These New Puritans, This Will Destroy You, Tilly and the Wall, Times New Viking, Tokyo Police Club, The Tough Alliance, Two Gallants, Vampire Weekend, VHS or Beta, The Vines, The Von Bondies, The Weakerthans, White Rabbits, White Williams, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Yeasayer, Yo La Tengo


An overwhelming list, to say the least, but certainly no shortage of quality here. It will undoubtedly prove challenging (if not impossible) to catch every worthwhile act, but there are lots of different ways to have a good time.

Also, props to the SXSW team for not jumping on the Jack Johnson bandwagon.