Preliminary SXSW Lineup Revealed

Next year’s South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW if you're cool) will take place March 15 - 19, and will feature a shitload of amazing artists, as usual. Though the list of acts remains partial at this point in time, Belle and Sebastian, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Neko Case, Annie, the Go! Team, Lady Sovereign, Arctic Monkeys, Cat Power, and many, many more, were confirmed today.

The 2006 SXSW lineup so far (read it and weep):

The Adored, Annie, Arctic Monkeys, Belle and Sebastian, The BellRays, Be Your Own Pet, Blockhead, The Boy Least Likely To, The Brokedown, Calexico, Neko Case, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clor, Jason Collett, The Cribs, Cuff the Duke, Jamie Cullum, Dashboard Confessional, Death In Vegas, Death Vessel, Dengue Fever, Destroyer, Die! Die! Die!, Dirty Pretty Things, Jorge Drexler, Dr. Spock, The Duke Spirit, The Earlies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Elbow, Empire Dogs, Erase Errata, Faker, Flogging Molly, Forward Russia, Giant Sand, Gogol Bordello, Jose Gonzalez, The Go! Team, Headphones, The Hellacopters, Clarence Frogman Henry, The Juan Maclean, Kaki King, Kalas, k-os, Sharron Kraus & Christian Kiefer, Lady Sovereign, The Like, Los De Abajo, Luminous Orange, Barbara Lynn, The Magic Numbers, Magnolia Electric Company, Serena Maneesh, Mates of State, The Morning After Girls, The Most Serene Republic, Mystery Jets, My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, Neon Blonde, Nickel Creek, No things, Of Montreal, Beth Orton, Peaches, The Plimsouls, Robert Pollard, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Saves the Day, The Secret Machines, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Tarantula A.D., Susan Tedeschi, Towers of London, KT Tunstall, Two Gallants, Tom Verlaine, Vetiver, The Whigs, Witch, Wolfmother.

In addition to this huge chunk of sound, SXSW is once again packed with panels and artist interviews. Panel highlights include "New Orleans Music After Katrina", "Podcasts Invade Earth", and something called "Superpowers of Music Supervision", which sounds like it could be about copy protection software, really overbearing parents, or the government monitoring your Last.FM playlist. Also scheduled are a keynote conversation with Neil Young, interviews with kd lang, Sam Moore, and the Pretenders, and speeches by Judy Collins, Billy Bragg, Kris Krisofferson. As well as impromptu nightly street performances by coked-up major label A&R; guys.

Sounds like a party!

South by Southwest: http://2006.sxsw.com/