SXSW 2006 lineup announced; includes Rollins, Saves The Day, Dashboard Confessional, Neon Blonde

The initial lineup for the 2006 edition of SXSW has been announced. The annual event will run from March 15th -19th in Austin, Texas. It will include keynote speaker Neil Young and Henry Rollins with also visit the city on March 12th to address both the music and film groups from the showcase. Rollins will be interviewed by music journalist Andy Langer of Esquire Magazine; the two will cover his feelings on the current state of the media, pop culture, politics and education.

Performers will include Cuff The Duke, Gogol Bordello, Headphones, the Living End, Death in Vegas, Flogging Molly, Destroyer, The Bellrays, The Secret Machines, Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, Neon Blonde and Mates of State.
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• The Adored
• Annie
• Arctic Monkeys
• Belle and Sebastian
• The BellRays
• Be Your Own Pet
• Blockhead
• The Boy Least Likely To
• The Brokedown
• Calexico
• Neko Case
• Cat Power
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Clor
• Jason Collett
• The Cribs
• Cuff the Duke
• Jamie Cullum
• Dashboard Confessional
• Death In Vegas
• Death Vessel
• Dengue Fever
• Destroyer
• Die! Die! Die!
• Dirty Pretty Things
• Jorge Drexler
• Dr. Spock
• The Duke Spirit
• The Earlies
• Echo & the Bunnymen
• Editors
• The Eighteenth Day Of May
• Elbow
• Empire Dogs
• Erase Errata
• Faker
• Flogging Molly
• Forward Russia
• Giant Sand
• Gogol Bordello
• Jose Gonzalez
• The Go! Team
• Headphones

• The Hellacopters
• Clarence Frogman Henry
• The Juan Maclean
• Kaki King
• Kalas
• K-os
• Sharron Kraus & Christian Kiefer
• Lady Sovereign
• The Like
• The Living End
• Los De Abajo
• Luminous Orange
• Barbara Lynn
• The Magic Numbers
• Magnolia Electric Company
• Serena Maneesh
• Mates of State
• The Morning After Girls
• The Most Serene Republic
• Mystery Jets
• My Summer as a Salvation Soldier
• Neon Blonde
• Nickel Creek
• No things
• Of Montreal
• Beth Orton
• Peaches
• The Plimsouls
• Robert Pollard
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot
• Saves the Day
• The Secret Machines
• Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
• Tarantula A.D.
• Susan Tedeschi
• Towers of London
• KT Tunstall
• Two Gallants
• Tom Verlaine
• Vetiver
• The Whigs
• Witch
• Wolfmother