The Seattle Bands And Everyone Else Who'll Be Playing At SXSW This Year

Our sisters in arms down the road a piece have created something from nothing; That is, they went through a bunch of press releases, MySpace sites and Purevolume profiles --all of which are "information" only in the softest, squishiest, most generous sense of the word, and extracted the concrete details of who's going to be at SXSW this year. The list, in contrast to most press releases and MySpace pages, is something that's actually useful. Holy crap, guys. The list is long and distinguished, as we've come to expect from SXSW, and contains big name bona fides like Interpol, Emmylou fucking Harris and Pete motherfucking Townsend as well as a ton of bands we're not cool enough to have ever heard of like all the ones we're not going to list here to avoid admitting to not knowing and loving them as they surely deserve. Like Go! Go! 7188, for example.

Seattle, represent. Rocky Votolato is on the list of SXSW 2007 performers. Ice Age Cobra is on there as well and we know they're Seattle-based and These Arms Are Snakes are also on the list and also from Seattle. Maybe there are others that we're not recognizing? Suddenly it's striking us that, to Seattleites, the Seattle bands on the bill for SXSW may be the least interesting. These are the guys you see --or have the opportunity to see, anyway-- week in and week out. It's everyone else we should be interested in. Check out Austinist's SXSW band list containing dozens of interesting bands as well as these three from Seattle.