South by Southwest has issued the first wave of artists slated to perform at next year’s music portion of the festival, which runs March 10-15, 2025.
Among the acts, Immersion – the project featuring Colin Newman of Wire and Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact – kick off a North American tour with NYC ambient-country trio SUSS, who feature on the band’s upcoming third installment of their collaborative recording series Nanocluster.*
Other big names on the SXSW 2025 roster hint at a 2000s indie pop revival. Austin’s own Letting Up Despite Great Faults – who issued their first album in eight years with 2022’s IV – and British duo the Ting Tings – known for 2007 hit “That’s Not My Name” – both play the festival.
Elsewhere on the bill are buzzy regional Mexican singer Justin Morales, Indonesian psychedelic funk band Ali, Dublin punks Gurriers, and multi-instrumentalist/composer Yasmin Williams. Prolific musician, visual artist, and Manor, Texas resident Jad Fair – who’s collaborated with Daniel Johnston, Teenage Fanclub, and other artists since his time in Half Japanese – also attends. Returning SXSW alumni include Dominican singer-songwriter Twin Shadow, who showcased at the festival a decade ago, and Montreal art-punk ensemble La Sécurité, who performed this past spring.
Other Austin artists performing next year include Bee Blackwell, Bubba Lucky, Caleb De Casper, Cotton Mather, Exotic Fruitica, Graham Reynolds, Fair and the Placebos, Julie Nolen, Lauren Lakis, Marry Cherry, Midnight Navy, Nemegata, Parker Woodland, Sly5thAve, and Water Damage. C3 Management, Chicken Ranch Records, the Loyalty Firm, and UTOPiAfest lead this wave’s list of local presenters.
Check out the full list of artists so far announced for SXSW 2025 below.
Ali (Jakarta INDONESIA)
Amiture (New York NY)
Annie-Claude Deschênes (Montreal CANADA)
Ava Vegas (Los Angeles CA)
babas tutsipop (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Bakers Eddy (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Bee Blackwell (Austin TX)
Big Phony (New York NY)
Bleary Eyed (Philadelphia PA)
Boo Seeka (Dudley AUSTRALIA)
Bubba Lucky (Austin TX)
Bummer Camp (New York NY)
Caleb De Casper (Austin TX)
Cap Carter (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Cari Cari (Vienna AUSTRIA)
Carter Vail (Los Angeles CA)
CDSM (Atlanta GA)
Chinese American Bear (Seattle WA)
Cloth (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
corto.alto (Glasgow UK-SCOTLAND)
Cotton Mather (Austin TX)
Delivery (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Dr. Pushkin (Bolgatanga GHANA)
Dune Rats (Brisbane AUSTRALIA)
Edgar Alejandro (Guadalajara MÉXICO)
Ellur (Halifax UK-ENGLAND)
Emmeline (London UK-ENGLAND)
Exotic Fruitica (Austin TX)
Fake Dad (Los Angeles CA)
fantasy of a broken heart (Brooklyn NY)
Frankie Venter (Mount Manganui NEW ZEALAND)
GEOGRAPHER (San Francisco CA)
Graham Reynolds (Austin TX)
Guardian Singles (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Gurriers (Dublin IRELAND)
Gus Englehorn (Maui HI)
Hachiku (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
HIMALAYAS (CARDIFF UK-WALES)
Honeyglaze (London UK-ENGLAND)
Housewife (Toronto CANADA)
J.Tajor (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Jad Fair and the Placebos (Austin TX)
John Francis Flynn (Dublin IRELAND)
Julie Nolen (Austin TX)
Justin Morales (Cuernavaca MEXICO)
Kanaan (Oslo NORWAY)
KAP BAMBINO (Bordeaux FRANCE)
Ki! (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Kombilesa Mi (Palenque COLOMBIA)
La Sécurité (Montréal CANADA)
Laura Lee & the Jettes (Berlin GERMANY)
Lauren Lakis (Austin TX)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Austin TX)
Levin Goes Lightly (Stuttgart GERMANY)
Los Eclipses (Mexico City MEXICO)
Lucy Sugerman (Canberra AUSTRALIA)
MADELEINE (LondonUK-ENGLAND)
Mall Girl (Oslo NORWAY)
Man/Woman/Chainsaw (London UK-ENGLAND)
Marry Cherry (Austin TX)
Maruja (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
mary in the junkyard (London UK-ENGLAND)
Matching Outfits (Berlin GERMANY)
MELLT(Cardiff UK-WALES)
Meltheads (Antwerp BELGIUM)
Mhaol (Dublin IRELAND)
Midnight Navy (Austin TX)
Miranda and the Beat (New Orleans LA)
Monobloc (New York NY)
Nanocluster [Immersion | SUSS] (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Nature TV (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Nemegata (Austin TX)
Nilipek. (Istanbul TURKEY)
Nive Nielsen (Nuuk GREENLAND)
o’summer vacation (Kobe JAPAN)
Parker Woodland (Austin TX)
Paula Prieto (Buenos Aires ARGENTINA)
Perennial (Vernon CT)
Personal Trainer (Amsterdam NETHERLANDS)
Pug Johnson (Beaumont TX)
Quiet Money Dot (Houston TX)
Really Good Time (Dublin IRELAND)
Rowena Wise (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Sarah Klang (Gothenburg SWEDEN)
Scarlet House (Charlotte NC)
Shao Dow (London UK-ENGLAND)
Shiho Yabuki (Hadasu JAPAN)
Shishi (Vilnius LITHUANIA)
Sir Jude (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Sly5thAve (Austin TX)
Soda Blonde (Dublin IRELAND)
Sofia Grant (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sultanes del Yonke (El Paso TX)
Summer Pearl(London UK-ENGLAND)
Surely Shirley (Kiama AUSTRALIA)
Susobrino (Brussel BELGIUM)
Tesfaye Taye Gebeyehu / Yaho Ethiopian
Cultural Band/ (Addis Ababa ETHIOPIA)
The Philharmonik (Sacramento CA)
The Ting Tings (Manchester UK-ENGLAND)
The VANNS (Wollongong AUSTRALIA)
tiger bae (Harumi JAPAN)
TVOD (Brooklyn NY)
Twin Shadow (Los Angeles CA)
twst (Barry UK-WALES)
Vanessa Zamora (San Diego CA)
Venus Grrrls (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Volcan (San Antonio TX)
Vv Pete (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Water Damage (Austin TX)
Woomb (Sofia BULGARIA)
XAMIYA (Tokyo JAPAN)
Xixa (Tucson AZ)
Yasmin Williams (Woodbridge VA)
Yndling (Bergen NORWAY)
Yoo Doo Right (Montreal CANADA)
Yuuf (London UK-ENGLAND
* A previous version of this post incorrectly stated that Immersion is making their debut live performance at SXSW 2025. The performance is their first with SUSS, not overall. The Chronicle regrets the error.
This article appears in October 25 • 2024.
