SXSW 2010

The famous SXSW event in Austin, Texas will start next week. SXSW Music page
Second Play Stages feature Music Fest Artists ( "Past acts have included: Mumford and Sons, Madi Diaz, Rod Thomas and Slow Club." This year, it's Broadcast 2000, among other bands.)

You can listen to thousands of songs "publicly available on the SXSW website as of March 6, 2010 here: Home of the (UNOFFICIAL) SXSW Torrents (via Blogotheque's post).

Check out the list of bands who will play there this year. There's finally many well-known indie bands.2010 Showcasing Bands by Day/Venue
Music bands in alphabetical order

Those I'm following	Those I don't know well	Those I only know by name
Anya Marina Arborea Barcelona Broadcast 2000 Casiokids Dr Dog Fanfarlo Frightened Rabbit Generationals Lawrence Arabia Local Natives Lou Barlow Meiko Robert Francis The Bewitched Hands On The Top Of Our Head	Balmorhea Cary Brothers Dawn Kinnard Everything Everything Floating Action Giant Cloud Happy Birthday Jeremy Jay Joe Purdy Lissie Lo-Star Midlake Miike Snow Muchuu Pepi Ginsberg Real Estate Scissor Sisters She & Him Slow Club Suzanne Vega Spoon The Lovely Egg	Band of Horses Basia Bulat Brisa Roche Broken Bells Cate Le Bon Choir of Young Believers Cymbals Eat Guitars DDMMYYYY Eagle Seagull Efterklang First Aid Kit Fool's Gold Gemma Ray General Elektrikcs Grammatics King of Conspiracy King of Spain Le Loup Memory Tapes Nat Jenkins Neon Indian Oh No Ono Plants and Animals Seabear School of Seven Bells Shine Slaraffenland Sondre Lerche The Low Anthem The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Soft Pack The xx The Young Republic Tom Brosseau Unicorn Kid We Are Scientists We Were Promised Jetpacks Wye Oak

I never heard of the rest of the bands....