SXSW Music Festival Names Names

In the first major release of information about the South By Southwest Music Festival, organizers have announced the first set of names for the 2006 music festival.

Neil Young has been named as the keynote speaker. He will participate in a conversation with Jonathan Demme, who created the film Neil Young / Heart Of Gold, a film set to debut at the SXSW Film Festival. The film chronicles a series of Young performances in Nashville, where he performed material from his album Prarie Wind.

SXSW has also announced an initial set of performers. Names include Belle and Sebastian, The Earlies, Echo and the Bunnymen, and The Juan Maclean. The list is subject to change and more names will be added as confirmed.

SXSW 2006: Music Festival Lineup
• The Adored (Los Angeles CA)
• Annie (Bergen NORWAY)
• Arctic Monkeys (Sheffield UK)
• Belle and Sebastian (Glasgow UK)
• The BellRays (Los Angeles CA)
• Be Your Own PET (Nashville TN)
• Blockhead (New York NY)
• The Boy Least Likely To (Wendover UK)
• The Brokedown (Los Angeles CA)
• Calexico (Tucson AZ)
• Neko Case (Tacoma WA)
• Cat Power (Atlanta GA)
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Brooklyn NY)
• Clor (London UK) • Jason Collett (Toronto ON)
• The Cribs (Wakefield UK)
• Cuff the Duke (Toronto ON)
• Jamie Cullum (London UK)
• Dashboard Confessional (Boca Raton FL)
• Death In Vegas (London UK)
• Death Vessel (Brooklyn NY)
• Dengue Fever (Los Angeles CA)
• Destroyer (Vancouver BC)
• Die! Die! Die! (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
• Dirty Pretty Things (London UK)
• Jorge Drexler (Madrid SPAIN)
• Dr. Spock (Reykjavik ICELAND)
• The Duke Spirit (London UK)
• The Earlies (Manchester UK)
• Echo & The Bunnymen (Liverpool UK)
• Editors (Birmingham UK)
• The Eighteenth Day Of May (London UK)
• Elbow (Manchester UK)
• Empire Dogs (Stockholm SWEDEN)
• Erase Errata (San Francisco CA)
• Faker (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
• Flogging Molly (Los Angeles CA)
• Forward Russia (Leeds UK)
• Giant Sand (Tucson AZ)
• Glass Eye (Austin TX)
• Gogol Bordello (New York NY)
• Jose Gonzalez (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
• The Go! Team (Brighton UK)
• Headphones (Seattle WA)
• The Hellacopters (Stockholm SWEDEN)
• Clarence Frogman Henry (New Orleans LA)
• The Juan Maclean (Dover NH)
• Kaki King (New York NY)
• Kalas (Oakland CA)
• k-os (Whitby ON)
• Sharron Kraus & Christian Kiefer (London UK)
• Lady Sovereign (London UK)
• The Like (Los Angeles CA)
• Los De Abajo (Mexico City MEXICO)
• Luminous Orange (Yokohama JAPAN)
• Barbara Lynn (Beaumont TX)
• The Magic Numbers (London UK)
• Magnolia Electric Company (Chicago IL)
• Serena Maneesh (Oslo NORWAY)
• Mates of State (East Haven CT)
• The Morning After Girls (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
• The Most Serene Republic (Toronto ON)
• Mystery Jets (London UK)
• My Summer as a Salvation Soldier (Reykjavik ICELAND)
• Neon Blonde (Seattle WA)
• Nickel Creek (Carlsbad CA)
• n0 things (Brooklyn NY)
• Of Montreal (Athens GA)
• Beth Orton (London UK)
• Peaches (Berlin GERMANY)
• The Plimsouls (Los Angeles CA)
• Robert Pollard (Dayton OH)
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot (New York NY)
• Saves the Day (Princeton NJ)
• The Secret Machines (New York NY)
• Marty Stuart & his Fabulous Superlatives (Hendersonville TN)
• Tarantula A D (New York NY)
• Susan Tedeschi (Jacksonville FL)
• Towers of London (London UK)
• KT Tunstall (London UK)
• Two Gallants (San Francisco CA)
• Tom Verlaine (New York NY) • Vetiver (San Francisco CA)
• The Whigs (Athens GA)
• Whitehouse (Edinburgh UK)
• Witch (Brattleboro VT)
• Wolfmother (Sydney AUSTRALIA)

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