SXSW.com recently posted the complete list of acts performing at this year’s festival (complete with hometown), in alphabetical order. Re-posting the exhaustingly long list here would be cruel to your blog feed. Some highlights, however, include:

David Banner (Jackson MS)
Be Your Own Pet (Nashville TN)
The Black Keys (Akron OH)
Brooklyn (Paris FRANCE) (just found this one amusing)
Brothers And Sisters (Austin TX)
Ryan Cabrera (Dallas TX) (??)
Care Bears on Fire (Brooklyn NY)
The Cool Kids (Chicago IL)
The Cribs (Wakefield UK)
Cut Copy (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
Duffy (Wales UK)
Jakob Dylan (Los Angeles CA)
Earlimart (Los Angeles CA)
El-P (Brooklyn NY)
Liam Finn (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Holy Fuck (Toronto ON)
Ice Cube (Hollywood CA)
The Kills (London UK)
Kiss Kiss (Milton NY)
Daniel Lanois (Toronto ON)
Low vs Diamond (Los Angeles CA)
MGMT (Brooklyn NY)
Ingrid Michaelson (Staten Island NY)
Moby (New York NY)
Thurston Moore (Northampton MA)
Peter Moren (Stockholm SWEDEN)
MSTRKRFT (Toronto ON)
My Morning Jacket (Louisville KY)
Nada Surf (Brooklyn NY)
N.E.R.D. (Virginia Beach VA)
Jim Noir (Manchester UK) (PopGenius)
Ours (Ridgefield Park NJ) (Please let this band be huge already)
Portastatic (Chapel Hill NC)
The Raveonettes (New York NY)
R.E.M. (Athens GA)
Robyn (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Rogue Wave (Oakland CA) (Suddenly I’m craving a Zune)
Shout Out Louds (Stockholm SWEDEN)
South (London UK)
The Stills (Montreal QC)
Tapes ‘n Tapes (Minneapolis MN)
Bjorn Torske (Bergen NORWAY) (As in Peter, Bjorn, etc.)
Vampire Weekend (New York NY) (ugh)
The Whigs (Athens GA)
Saul Williams (Los Angeles CA)

Jump for the full list….. or click here. Too long. God that’s long.