The first wave of acts confirmed for SXSW 02 (www.austinchronicle. com/issues/dispatch/2001-12-21/music_dancing2.html) came down Dec. 21, and lo and behold, three weeks later there’s another: Absorption, Actual Size, Add N to (X), American Analog Set, AM/FM, Louie Austen, Bacilos, David Baerwald and the New Folk Underground, Howie Beck, Black Sun Ensemble, Boxstep, Broken Social Scene, Bullfrog featuring Kid Koala, Call and Response, Chicks on Speed, Clinic, the Constantines, the Darkness, the Dears, Joaquin Diaz, Cara Dillon, Neil Finn, Danny Frankel, Fruit, Girls Against Boys, the Grassy Knoll, Guafa Trio, Janne Haavisto & the Farangs, Hanson, High on Fire, Jim & Jennie & the Pinetops, Paul Jones, Katell Keineg, David Kitt, Kosheen, Shannon Lawson, Man or Astro-Man?, Maximilian Hecker, Heather McCullough, Dean Miller, the Moldy Peaches, Abra Moore, Nashville Pussy, Panico, Polak, Promise Ring, Quinn, Roo Nation, Eileen Rose, Royal City, Rye Coalition, Barry Saunders, Taylor Savvy, Schatzi, Semiautomatic, Si*Sé, the Sleeping Flies, Sole, South, Spookey Ruben, Spree, Joe Strummer, the Sunshine Fix, Superdrag, Supersuckers, T-Model Ford, Transformer Lootbag, Tribe 8, Juliet Turner, Understatements, the Venue, Wayne, Webb Brothers, Kelly Willis, Warren Zanes, and Axel Zwingenberger.
This article appears in January 11 • 2002.