a few band picks off the recently released list

SXSW asked me to give them my top three must-see bands off the recently posted list of bands playing music -- so I gave it a good look-over.

I found this list of bands that I consider must-sees, if at all possible (SXSW is all about scheduling -- so, for example, while I think it is AWESOME that Dolly Parton is playing, I also heard she's playing at some venue way off the beaten path, which means it's incredibly unlikely that I'll be seeing her).

In addition, for SXSW I mostly focus on bands that rarely or never come to the US, or bands I keep missing for one reason or another. Of course, there are a few bands on here that I've seen multiple times but just love, as well.

Note: I definitely missed some, and this list will be revised many times, esp. as I have time to research more of the international bands playing.

Aloha (Cleveland OH)
Chris Bathgate (Ann Arbor MI)
The Blue Van (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Bon Iver (Eau Claire WI)
Born in the Flood (Denver CO)
British Sea Power (Brighton UK)
Buddy (Los Angeles CA)
The Concretes (Stockholm SWEDEN)
The Dodos (San Francisco CA)
Eagle Seagull (Lincoln NE)
Earlimart (Los Angeles CA)
The English Beat (Birmingham UK)
Frightened Rabbit (Glasgow UK)
Georgie James (Washington DC)
Daryl Hall (Millerton NY)
Jeff Hanson (St Paul MN)
Headlights (Champaign IL)
The Helio Sequence (Portland OR)
Jens Lekman (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
Ferraby Lionheart (Los Angeles CA)
Los Campesinos! (Wales UK)
The Mint Chicks (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Okkervil River (Austin TX)
Oppenheimer (Belfast IRELAND)
Dolly Parton (Sevierville TN)
Scouting For Girls (London UK)
Kevin Shields (Midcity CA)
Shout Out Louds (Stockholm SWEDEN)
South (London UK)
The Spinto Band (Wilmington DE)
The Stills (Montreal QC)
Tilly and the Wall (Omaha NE)
Tokyo Police Club (Toronto ON)
Vampire Weekend (New York NY)
Via Audio (Brooklyn NY)
Voxhaul Broadcast (Los Angeles CA)
Vverevvolf Grehv (Omaha NE)

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