Spoon, Broken Social Scene, She & Him and the xx will be among the bands playing in Austin for this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival. A complete list of bands slated to perform at the festival are listed below.

Music isn’t the only thing the festival has to offer. In the film bucket, we have the directoral debut of James Franco in a documentary called “Saturday Night.” Also being featured are Tim Blake Nelson’s film “Leaves of Grass” staring Edward Norton and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (Amelie) latest project “Micmacs.”

The 24th annual SXSW Festival will take place from March 18-21. To get the low down on all things South by Southwest, visit the festival’s website.

!!! (Brooklyn, NY)
Amaral (Madrid, Spain)
Anita Tijoux (Santiago, Chile)
ApoptygmaBerzerk (Oslo, Norway)
Athlete (London, England)
Bajofondo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Balkan Beat Box (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Band of Skulls (London, England)
Bear In Heaven (Brooklyn, NY)
Black Milk (Detroit, MI)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Los Angeles, CA)
BombaEstereo (Bogota, Colombia)
Broken Social Scene (Toronto, Canada)
Chalie Boy (Hearne, TX)
Chamillionaire& Paul Wall (Houston, TX)
Cymbals Eat Guitars (New York, NY)
Deer Tick (Providence, RI)
Evan Dando (New York, NY)
Frightened Rabbit (Selkirk, Scotland)
Fucked Up (Toronto, Canada)
Grant Hart (St. Paul, MN)
Hauschka (Dusseldorf , Germany)
Here We Go Magic (Brooklyn, NY)
Hudson Mohawke (Glasgow, Scotland)
Invincible (Detroit, MI)
jj (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Killer Mike (Atlanta, GA)
LA Riots (Los Angeles, CA)
Les SavyFav (Brooklyn, NY)
MalditaVecindad (Mexico City, Mexico)
Marina & The Diamonds (London, Englad)
Mayer Hawthorne & The County (Ann Arbor, MI)
Midlake (Denton, TX)
Miike Snow (Stockholm, Sweden)
Mr Hudson (London, England)
MundoLivre SA (Recife, Brazil)
Murs (Los Angeles, CA)
NataliaLafourcade (Mexico City, Mexico)
Pretty Lights (Charlottesville, VA)
Rye Rye (Baltimore, MD)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (Brooklyn, NY)
She & Him (Los Angeles, CA)
Shwayze (Malibu, CA)
Spoon (Austin, TX)
Steve Aoki (Los Angeles, CA)
Systema Solar (Taganga, Colombia)
Texas Tornados (San Antonio, TX)
The Drums (Brooklyn, NY)
The Middle East (Townsville, Australia)
The Soft Pack (San Diego, CA)
The Very Best (New York, NY)
The xx (London, England)
Trae (Houston, TX)
VV Brown (London, England)
Wolfgang Gartner (Austin, TX)

For all those Spoon fans anxiously holding your breathe in anticipation of their forthcoming album Transference, you can exhale a little bit. Transference’s release date has been pushed up from January 25 to January 19. The record will be released on Merge here in the states and Anti- for our UK brethren. The album will be comprised of 11-tracks including their single “Got Nuffin’” which was released as a part of an EP back in June.

Spoon, comprised of Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope, will also be hitting the road next month in anticipation of the Transference release parking at 5 cities in the US. The Austin, TX band kick things off in Kansas City on December 3 and run through New Year’s Eve at Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A handful of initial European dates have been set for Europe at this point. A full listing of Spoon tour dates is highlighted below.

Spoon’s last releasein 2007 “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” climbed up to number 1 on the Billboard Independent Album charts.

2009-10 Spoon Concert Tour
December 2009
3 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
4 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
11 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
12 – La Jolla, CA – RIMAC Arena
31 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater

February 2010
14 – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
15 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
16 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
18 – Amsterdam, DM – Paradiso
19 – Cologne, DE – Luxor
20 – Berlin, DE – Frannz Club