South by Southwest Preview

We're pretty excited about this year's South by Southwest music festival. NPR Music and All Songs Considered will be in Austin next week, blogging, broadcasting and webcasting nearly two dozen live concerts. You'll hear R.E.M., My Morning Jacket, Jens Lekman, Vampire Weekend and many more, all webcast live on NPR.org. On this edition of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats with NPR Music blogger and Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein, and music producer Stephen Thompson about the head-spinning number of bands they're most excited to see. Their chat is followed by an interview at the end of the show with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig.

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Bon Iver

• Song: Team
• from
• by

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Evangelicals

• Song: Skeleton Man
• from Evening Descends

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Sera Cahoone

• Song: You're Not Broken
• from Only as the Day Is Long

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Fanfarlo

• Song: Fire Escape
• from Fire Escape

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Times New Viking

• Song: Drop-Out
• from Rip It Off

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Troubled Hubble

• Song: To Be Alive and Alone
• from Making Beds in a Burning House

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She & Him

• Song: This is Not a Test
• from Volume One
• by She And Him

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Tift Merritt

• Song: Another Country
• from Another Country

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Basia Bulat

• Song: In the Night
• from Oh, My Darling

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Honeycut

• Song: Exodus Honey
• from Day I Turned to Glass

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Thurston Moore

• Song: The Shape Is In A Trance
• from Trees Outside the Academy

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Chris Bathgate

• Song: Serpentine
• from Cork Tale Wake

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Magic Arm

• Song: Move Out
• from Outdoor Games

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Black Mountain

• Song: Evil Ways
• from In the Future

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Nada Surf

• Song: See These Bones
• from Lucky [Bonus CD]

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The Ironweed Project

• Song: Down to My Grave
• from The Dustbowl Instrumentals

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Vampire Weekend

• Song: A-Punk