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For those of you that don't know. Every year there is a music festival that happens in Austin, Texas where people keep their eyes out for the next big thing and breakout bands that are on the rise.

Here is a little history behind it from their website:

After all of these years of me following SXSW, I didn't even realize they had a film portion of the festival. According to the history the film portion was added in '94.

I'm only going to touch on the Music side of things because I never pay much attention to what's going on the Film and Interactive side of things.

If you have plugged with me anytime last week. You will most likely have heard some of these artists. As I looked up more infomation on these bands I reliazed that they all have the electro pop vibe in common. I guess why I gravitate towards them.

Holychild's debut EP is called Mind Speak. They ended up signing with indie label Glassnote. The same label that Phoenix, Mumford & Sons and CHVRCHES are actually on. Liz Nistico and Louie Diller met up in 2011 when Louie was a guest musician in Liz's dance class at George Washington University and that's where the magic happened. They came together to play music that they felt was a bit weird so they wanted to keep a very high production value to their output.



MØ is a Danish singer/songwriter that follows in the electro pop footsteps of Twin Shadow, Grimes and Purity Ring. The meaning behind her name is "virgin" or "maiden" in Danish.
This is her latest single which I'm not too thrilled about but I love Dark Night and XXX88

I downloaded her LP a few weeks ago but I haven't listened to it entirely to see if it lives up to the great EP of hers Bikini Daze.



They won me over with their song Operate and their cover of Drake's Hold on We're Going Home. So far they have only released a six song EP entitled Varisty but if they constantly put out songs this solid then I can't wait until they finally release their album. A little back story to this group. Guy meets girl at a yoga class. They become friends, then form a band. Band makes it big after hitting up Brooklyn hipster scene.



Another NY band that got buzz through all the internet music bloggers and the indie scene during the summer last year is Panama Wedding. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any other material from them besides this track. It feels like such a cocktease with their synth goodness and upbeat simplicity. I want more from them. Hopefully they are working on putting out an EP soon at least.



Panama is an electronic band from Sydney, Australia. The band consists of Jarrah McCleary (lead vocals, keys, guitar), Tom Marland (keys, guitar), and Tim Commandeur (drums). The band has released two extended play albums. I don't know too much about this aussie band but I got this info from off of wikipedia and appearently they have only released two EPs so far but I will definitely be keeping an eye on them. I also mixed them up with Panama Wedding and thought they were both the same band but they aren't. Just similar names.

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