More Australian acts including Bliss N Eso, Kimbra and Busby Marou have been announced to showcase at SXSW 2012.
Kimbra - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
The latest list of Aussie’s heading to the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas is The Art, Bliss N Eso, Busby Marou, Clubfeet, Dead Letter Circus, Electric Empire, Electric Jellyfish, Goldfields, Jonti, Kimbra, Emma Louise, Pets With Pets, Sparkadia, The Vasco Era, Grace Woodroofe.
Already announced are Big Scary, The Black Ryder, Lanie Lane, Oh Mercy.
Last week SXSW announced that the keynote speaker for 2012 will be Bruce Springsteen.
SXSW Music is on from March 13 to 18, 2012 at in Austin, Texas.
Watch Busby Marou perform live at Noise11.com:
Watch the Kimbra interview at Noise11.com
The full list of acts so far announced for SXSW 2012 is:
First Round of Official 2012 Showcasing Artists
Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
Agent Fresco (Reykjavík ICELAND)
Ambition (Halifax CANADA)
ANR (Miami FL)
Antoine Reverb (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Avalanche City (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Balthazar (Gent BELGIUM)
Bare Wires (Oakland CA)
BeatauCue (Caen FRANCE)
Bestial Mouths (Los Angeles CA)
Big Deal (London UK-ENGLAND)
Big Scary (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
Black Books (Austin TX)
The Black Ryder (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Michael Guy Bowman (Los Angeles CA)
Cashier No.9 (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Class Actress (Brooklyn NY)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland OH)
Com Truise (Princeton NJ)
Delay Trees (Helsinki FINLAND)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Marianne Dissard (Tucson AZ)
Duck Fight Goose (Shanghai CHINA)
The Ettes (Nashville TN)
Fanzine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Fat Tony (Houston TX)
FEAR (Los Angeles CA)
Free Blood (Brooklyn NY)
THE GRANNIES (San Francisco CA)
Guadalupe Plata (Andalusia-Ubeda SPAIN)
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
Howler (Minneapolis MN)
Ice Choir (Brooklyn NY)
I Got You On Tape (Copenhagen DENMARK)
il abanico (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
Jonquil (Oxford UK-ENGLAND)
Just A Band (Nairobi KENYA)
Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles CA)
Library Voices (Regina CANADA)
Love Inks (Austin TX)
Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven (Silverlake CA)
Mahogany (Chicago IL)
Marmalakes (Austin TX)
The Men (New York City NY)
Mind Spiders (Forth Worth TX)
Motopony (Seattle WA)
Mujeres (Barcelona SPAIN)
Musikanto (Chicago IL)
My Education (Austin TX)
Niki & The Dove (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Not In The Face!! (Austin TX)
Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík ICELAND)
120 Days (Oslo NORWAY)
Outfit (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Parlotones (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Parlovr (Montreal CANADA)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT)
Pure Love (Brooklyn NY)
Molly Rankin (Charlottetown PE)
ROGe (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Peter Rosenberg (New York NY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Gabriel Santiago Quintet (Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL)
Sauti Sol (Nairobi KENYA)
Say Hi (Seattle WA)
The Scoundrels (Las Vegas NV)
Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton CANADA)
Skewby (Memphis TN)
Skinny Lister (London UK-ENGLAND)
Soft Metals (Los Angeles CA)
Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Something Fierce (Houston TX)
Sore Losers (Lancaster TX)
SPEAK (Austin TX)
Spectrals (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Spycatcher (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sudakaya (Quito ECUADOR)
Talking To Turtles (Leipzig GERMANY)
Team Me (Elverum NORWAY)
Telebit (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
THULEBASEN (København V DENMARK)
Timbuktu (Toronto ON)
Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
Turbogeist (London UK-ENGLAND)
Uncle Bad Touch (Montreal CANADA)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
UV POP (Doncaster UK-ENGLAND)
Vampillia (Tenjinmachi JAPAN)
V for Volume (Bogota COLOMBIA)
VHS or Beta (Brooklyn NY)
WAX (Dunkirk MD)
We Are The Ocean (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Barbarians (Brooklyn NY)
The Wedding Present (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Chelsea Wolfe (Los Angeles CA)
Young Magic (Brooklyn NY)
Yukon Blonde (Vancouver CANADA)
Yuksek(Paris FRANCE)
The Zoltars (Austin TX)
Second Round of Official 2012 Showcasing Artists
Alabama Shakes (Athens AL)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Atlantic/Pacific (Brooklyn NY)
Bad Weather California (Denver CO)
Belligerence (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Ben Howard (Devon UK-ENGLAND)
Blouse (Portland OR)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Choir of Young Believers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Dikes of Holland (Austin TX)
Duran (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Edison Chair (Austin TX)
Electric Eel Shock (Tokyo JAPAN)
Electric Wire Hustle (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Elias Haslanger (Austin TX)
Extrawelt (Hamburg GERMANY)
Fallulah (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Films of Colour (London UK-ENGLAND)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Hunters (Brooklyn NY)
Idiot Glee (Lexington KY)
J.R. Patton (Dallas TX)
Juan Cirerol (Mexicali MEXICO)
Lanie Lane (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Lilly Wood and the Prick (Paris FRANCE)
Lonsdale Boys Club (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lucero (Memphis TN)
Miles Zuniga (Austin TX)
New Look (Hamilton CANADA)
Nick Jaina (Portland OR)
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children (Nuuk GREENLAND)
Oh Mercy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders (Los Angeles CA)
Polarsets (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PUJOL (Nashville TN)
Psychic Ills (New York NY)
Radiation City (Portland OR)
Schmillion (Austin TX)
Teengirl Fantasy (New York NY)
The Abramson Singers (Vancouver BC)
The Record Summer (New York NY)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Wheelchair Sports Camp (Denver CO)
You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Zulu Winter (London UK-ENGLAND)
Third Round of Official 2012 Showcasing Artists
Peter Bradley Adams (Brooklyn NY)
A.Dd+ (Dallas TX)
Alberta Cross (Los Angeles CA)
Allah-Las (Los Angeles CA)
All The Young (Stoke-On-Trent ENGLAND)
ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) (San Francisco CA)
Alpha Rev (Austin TX)
Amoral (Helsinki FINLAND)
Amplified Heat (Austin TX)
Anamanaguchi (Brooklyn NY)
Ancestors (Los Angeles CA)
Ancestros (Cali COLOMBIA)
Ancient Astronauts (Cologne GERMANY)
The Apache Relay (Nashville TN)
Arborea (Lewiston ME)
Arkells (Hamilton CANADA)
The Art (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Atash (Austin TX)
Attwenger (Vienna AUSTRIA)
Authorities (Vancouver CANADA)
Automelodi (Montreal CANADA)
Maya Azucena (Brooklyn NY)
Andrea Balency Trio (Mexico City MEXICO)
Balkan Beat Box (Brooklyn NY/Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
Baloji (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
Jef Barbara (Montreal CANADA)
Beach Fossils (Brooklyn NY)
Michael Beach (San Francisco CA)
Arthur Beatrice (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bez (Lagos NIGERIA)
The Big Pink (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Big Sleep (Brooklyn NY)
Bitches (London UK-ENGLAND)
Black & Gypsy / Raimundo Y Diego Amador (Chucena SPAIN)
The Black Belles (Nashville TN)
Bleached (Los Angeles CA)
Bliss N Eso (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Blitzen Trapper (Portland OR)
Blitz the Ambassador (Brooklyn NY)
Blood Orange (New York NY)
Blunt Fang (Atlanta GA)
BoDeans (Milwaukee WI)
The Bombettes (Umea SWEDEN)
Bonaparte (Berlin GERMANY)
Bonfire Nights (London UK-ENGLAND)
Bos Angeles (Bournemouth UK-ENGLAND)
Dela Botri & Hewale Sounds (Accra GHANA)
Boy (Hamburg GERMANY)
Cory Branan (Nashville TN)
Breton (London UK-ENGLAND)
Brite Futures (Seattle WA)
Brother & Bones (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Brute Chorus (London UK-ENGLAND)
Built to Spill (Boise ID)
Busby Marou (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Cairo Knife Fight (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
The Calm Blue Sea (Austin TX)
Candy (Mexico City MEXICO)
Canteca de Macao (Madrid SPAIN)
Chapter 24 (London UK-ENGLAND)
Cheap Girls (Lansing MI)
Cheif Boima (Brooklyn NY)
Cheny Wa Gune Quarteto (Maputo MOZAMBIQUE)
Chicha Libre (Brooklyn NY)
Chokeules (Toronto CANADA)
Chris T-T (Brighton ENGLAND)
Inch Chua (Singapore SINGAPORE)
Circuit Des Yeux (Layfayette IN)
A Classic Education (Bologna ITALY)
Clock Opera (London UK-ENGLAND)
Clubfeet (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Coathangers (Atlanta GA)
Jordan Cook (Saskatoon CANADA)
Copacabana Club (Curitiba BRAZIL)
The Copper Gamins (Zinacantepec MEXICO)
Jonny Corndawg (Brooklyn NY)
Cosmo Jarvis (Plymouth UK-ENGLAND)
Cosmonauts (Fullerton CA)
Cotton Jones (Cumberland MD)
Cousins (Halifax CANADA)
Craft Spells (Seattle WA)
Crazy P (London UK-ENGLAND)
Creamers (Austin TX)
Creature (Montreal CANADA)
Cuba Cuba (Cardiff UK-WALES)
Cuff the Duke (Toronto CANADA)
The Curious Mystery (Seattle WA)
Da C.O.D. (Austin TX)
Dama do Bling (Maputo MOZAMBIQUE)
The Dandies (Hochdorf SWITZERLAND)
Dash Rip Rock (New Orleans LA)
Daughter (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dead Black Hearts (Austin TX)
Dead Letter Circus (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
The Defiled (London UK-ENGLAND)
Delta Spirit (Long Beach CA)
Dent May (Oxford MS)
DevilDriver (Los Angeles CA)
Dignan Porch (London UK-ENGLAND)
Diplomats of Solid Sound (Iowa City IA)
Dirty Karma (Mexico City MEXICO)
DIVE (Brooklyn NY)
DJ Dus aka El Dusty (Corpus Christi TX)
DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (San Antonio TX)
Thomas Dolby (Suffolk UK-ENGLAND)
Dope D.O.D. (Groningen THE NETHERLANDS)
Dorian (Barcelona SPAIN)
Lila Downs (Oaxaca MEXICO)
The Drab Doo-Riffs (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Dry the River (London UK-ENGLAND)
Dutch Uncles (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
Dying Fetus (Baltimore MD)
Early Graves (San Francisco CA)
Ear Pwr (Asheville NC)
Electric Empire (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Electric Guest (Los Angeles CA)
Electric Jellyfish (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Elephant Stone (Montreal CANADA)
The Evaporators (Vancouver CANADA)
Extra Action Marching Band (Oakland CA)
The Extremities (Toronto CANADA)
Father John Misty (Los Angeles CA)
Simone Felice (Catskill Mountains NY)
Lee Fields & The Expressions (Brooklyn NY)
The Foreign Resort (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Guy Forsyth (Austin TX)
Marcus Foster (London UK-ENGLAND)
Frank (Just Frank) (Queens NY)
The Fray (Denver CO)
French Films (Helsinki FINLAND)
GAMEBOUY (Soweto SOUTH AFRICA)
Ganglians (Sacramento CA)
Gappy Ranks (London UK-ENGLAND)
Garland Jeffreys (New York NY)
Gazelle Twin (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Gliss (Los Angeles CA)
The Golden Awesome (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Gold Fields (Mitchell Park AUSTRALIA)
Gold Motel (Chicago IL)
The Good Natured (Newbury UK-ENGLAND)
Gospel Music (Jacksonville FL)
Grave Babies (Seattle WA)
Great Lake Swimmers (Toronto CANADA)
Peter Gregson (London UK-ENGLAND)
Grimes (Montreal CANADA)
Gross Magic (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Half Moon Run (Montreal CANADA)
Harouki Zombi (Athens NE)
Billy Harvey (Los Angeles CA)
Hatcham Social (London UK-ENGLAND)
Heartless Bastards (Cincinnati OH)
Hellogoodbye (Long Beach CA)
The Higher State (Sandgate UK-ENGLAND)
Hillfolk Noir (Boise ID)
Micah P. Hinson (Abilene TX)
Hollie Cook (Londres ENGLAND)
Audrey Horne (Bergen NORWAY)
Horse Feathers (Portland OR)
Hospitality (Brooklyn NY)
Housse De Racket (Paris FRANCE)
Hull (Brooklyn NY)
Hyde & Beast (Sunderland UK-ENGLAND)
I am Oak (Utrecht THE NETHERLANDS)
Idle Warship (Brooklyn NY)
Anna Ihlis (Leksand SWEDEN)
Imaginary Cities (Winnipeg CANADA)
Imperial Teen (Los Angeles CA)
Institutional Prostitution (Montreal CANADA)
The Interbeing (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Sarah Jaffe (Denton TX)
Japanese Gum (Genova ITALY)
JENNY O. (Los Angeles CA)
Joe Volume (San Jeronimo Lidice MEXICO)
Jonti (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Jovanotti (Cortona ITALY)
Junius (Boston MA)
Kao=S (Kamirenjaku JAPAN)
Kenny Ken (London UK-ENGLAND)
Kimbra (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Kindest Lines (New Orleans LA)
Kindness (London UK-ENGLAND)
Michael Kiwanuka (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sorie Kondi (Freetown SIERRA LEONE )
Talib Kweli (Brooklyn NY)
L.A. (Palma De Mallorca SPAIN)
Lady Leshurr (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lagitagida (Tokyo JAPAN)
Laki Mera (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Lamb (Trowbridge UK-ENGLAND)
Larkin Poe (Atlanta GA)
The Last Skeptik (London UK-ENGLAND)
La-33 (Bogota COLOMBIA)
League of Extraordinary G’z (Austin TX)
Lecrae (Atlanta GA)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Benjamin Francis Leftwich ( UK-ENGLAND)
L.E.$ (New Orleans TX)
Sylvie Lewis (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lights (Toronto CANADA)
Li’l Cap’n Travis (Austin TX)
The Lions Rampant (Cincinnati OH)
LIRA (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Little Hurricane (San Diego CA)
Xoel López (A Coruña SPAIN)
Lost Lander (Portland OR)
Emma Louise (Toowong AUSTRALIA)
Gary Lucas Plays Coffin Joe’s “This Night I WILL Possess Your Corpse” (New York NY)
The Magnetic Fields (New York NY)
Magnetix (Bordeaux FRANCE)
M.A.K.U SoundSystem (Jackson Heights NY)
Danny Malone (Austin TX)
Dan Mangan (Vancouver CANADA)
Anya Marina (Portland OR)
Charlie Mars (Oxford MS)
David Mayfield Parade (Nashville TN)
Andy McKee (Topeka KS)
MC Lars (Carmel Vally CA)
Metric (Toronto CANADA)
Milow (Leuven BELGIUM)
Miracles of Modern Science (Brooklyn NY)
Mr. Bleat (Medellin COLOMBIA)
Tashaki Miyaki (Los Angeles CA)
Ariane Moffatt (Montreal CANADA)
Monsieur Perine (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Mord Fustang (Tallinn ESTONIA)
Mother Falcon (Austin TX)
Krista Muir (Montreal CANADA)
Munchi (Rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Chrissy Murderbot (Chicago IL)
My Jerusalem (Austin TX)
Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang (Brooklyn NY)
Naeto C (Lagos NIGERIA)
Napoleon IIIrd (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Natives (Louisville KY)
Natty (London UK-ENGLAND)
Neon Trees (Provo UT)
New Cassettes (Northampton UK-ENGLAND)
Nguzunguzu (Los Angeles CA)
Night Beats (Seattle WA)
Nü Sensae (Vancouver CANADA)
Jennifer O’Connor (Brooklyn NY)
Oh Land (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Oh My Me (Lexington KY)
Lisa O’ Neill (Dublin IRELAND)
1,2,3 (Pittsburgh PA)
PAPA (Los Angeles CA)
Paula & Karol (Warsaw POLAND)
Peter & Paul (New York NY)
Pets With Pets (Carlton North AUSTRALIA)
Pillowfight (Dan the Automator) (South San Francisco CA)
Pinkunoizu (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Pinky Piglets (Tokyo JAPAN)
Planes (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Polica (Minneapolis MN)
Steve Poltz (San Diego CA)
Popstrangers (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Pow Wows (Toronto CANADA)
Prince Rama (Brooklyn NY)
Prizehog (San Francisco CA)
Protoje (Santa Cruz JAMAICA)
Joe Purdy (Los Angeles CA)
Purple Pilgrims (Christchurch NEW ZEALAND)
Quantic (Cali COLOMBIA)
Quiet Company (Austin TX)
The Rasites (London UK-WALES)
Nathaniel Rateliff (Denver CO)
Gemma Ray (London UK-ENGLAND)
Reptile Youth (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Res (Philadelphia PA)
The Riff Raff (London ENGLAND)
Finn Riggins (Boise ID)
Ringo Deathstarr (Austin TX)
The Ripe (Austin TX)
Roach Gigz (San Francisco CA)
Alice Russell (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Rachael Sage & The Sequins (New York NY)
Scale The Summit (Houston TX)
Scars On 45 (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Schiller (Berlin GERMANY)
Scoundrels (London UK-ENGLAND)
Screaming Females (New Brunswick NJ)
S.C.U.M (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Seedy Seeds (Cincinnati OH)
Serenades (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Shandy Mandies (Leipzig GERMANY)
Shiny Toy Guns (Shawnee OK)
Charlie Simpson (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds (Brooklyn NY)
Skindred (Newport UK-WALES)
Frank Smith (Austin TX)
Soft Swells (Los Angeles CA)
Solander (Malmö SWEDEN)
Sonic Avenues (Montreal CANADA)
Son of Jack (Porthcawl UK-WALES)
Charlene Soraia (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sore (Jakarta INDONESIA)
Soul Khan (Brooklyn NY)
Sparkadia (Annandale AUSTRALIA)
Spector (London UK-ENGLAND)
The Spinto Band (Wilmington DE)
Spirits of the Dead (Oslo NORWAY)
Spoek Mathambo (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Squarehead (Dublin IRELAND)
Stars (Montreal CANADA)
The Staves (London UK-ENGLAND)
Stereo Is A Lie (Austin TX)
Strange Boys (Austin TX)
Suckers (Brooklyn NY)
Sulk (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sumsun (Palm Beach FL)
Patrick Sweany (Nashville TN)
Taken by Cars (Quezon City PHILIPPINES)
Tall Ships (Falmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Tammar (Bloomington IN)
Tea Leaf Green (San Francisco CA)
Tearist (Los Angeles CA)
Telephunken (Madrid SPAIN)
Terakaft (Murs Erigne FRANCE)
Tesla Boy (Moscow RUSSIA)
Theme Park (London UK-ENGLAND)
Therapy? (North East ENGLAND)
This Will Destroy You (San Marcos TX)
Three Blind Wolves (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
3 Dudes & a Mullet (Mexico City MEXICO)
Tilly and the Wall (Omaha NE)
T. Mills (Los Angeles CA)
Torreblanca (Mexico City MEXICO)
Treetop Flyers (London ENGLAND)
Lissy Trullie (New York NY)
Trust (Toronto CANADA)
Tumi And The Volume (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Turbina (Mexico City MEXICO)
22 (London UK-ENGLAND)
Two Cow Garage (Columbus OH)
2Face (Lagos NIGERIA)
Ume (Austin TX)
U.S. Girls (Chicago IL)
Valient Thorr (Raleigh NC)
Väljasõit Rohelisse (Tallinn ESTONIA)
The Vasco Era (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Vetusta Morla (Madrid SPAIN)
The Violet May (Sheffield ENGLAND)
Vockah Redu (New Orleans LA)
Leif Vollebekk (Montreal CANADA)
Voltaire Twins (Perth WA )
J Roddy Walston And The Business (Baltimore MD)
The War On Drugs (Philadelphia PA)
We Are Standard (Bilbao SPAIN)
Wet Hair (Iowa City IA)
Wheeler Brothers (Austin TX)
The White Eyes (Taipei City TAIWAN)
Whitehorse (Hamilton CANADA)
Witchburn (Seattle WA)
Carolyn Wonderland (Austin TX)
Grace Woodroofe (Perth AUSTRALIA)
Paul Woolford (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Workout (Brooklyn NY)
Wussy (Cincinnati OH)
Xxxy (London UK-ENGLAND)
Yip Deceiver (Athens GA)
The Young (Austin TX)
Young Galaxy (Montreal CANADA)
Zeus (Toronto CANADA)
Zorch (Austin, TX)
