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)

The London Indie rock outfit xx must be blushing four shades of red at this point. They’re self-titled album has earned best of 2009 accolades from NME, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and the Guardian UK. It is quite a feat for a group’s debut album to bowl over the most prestigious music publications. The group is making the most out of their new found notoriety by mapping a tour of North America in support of their latest album. Swedish group jj will provide support. Any other double letter band is asked to contact the band’s management for the chance to join this alphabet soup tour.

The 19-city tour will start in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 23 and zigzag the country until they end up in Washington DC on April 24. The group is currently winding its way through Europe and Australia. Full xx tour dates are listed below. Tickets are currently onsale to the general public through Ticketmaster.

Their self-titled debut was released on XL Recordings on August 18, and hails the distinction of being the first album recorded in XL’s in-house studio. The album would go on to peak at number 1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker Album Charts and number 19 on the Independent Album Charts.

2010 xx concert tour
March 2010
22 – Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
24 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
25 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
28 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
29 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church

April 2010
2 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
3 – Montreal, Quebec – Le National
5 – Columbus, OH – Wexner Center for the Arts
6 – Bloomington, IN – Buskirk-Chumley Theater
8 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
9 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
12 – Bellingham, WA – The Nightlight
13 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
14 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
16 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
19 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
20 – Toronto, Ontario – Kool Haus
22 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
24 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club