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SXSW is all about volume, in more ways than one. Roughly 2,000 acts perform at the four-day music festival every year, so to spend just three minutes with each in advance of the big event is to deny your friends and loved ones a solid 100 hours of your waking, undivided attention.
With 100 handpicked festival highlights and thrilling discoveries in a meaty but digestible microcosm of SXSW, The Austin 100 plays as a continuous seven-hour mix — everything from Daughter's devastatingly barren "Landfill" to Black Tusk's devastatingly blistering "Set the Dial to Your Doom." (As a bonus, 71 of these songs are available for free download here.) Be sure to visit NPR.org/SXSW for live concerts, photos, videos and dispatches from this year's festival.
Adam Arcuragi, "Presidents' Song" [
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Alabama Shakes, "I Found You" [
MP3]
Allen Stone, "Sleep" [
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Amy Bezunartea, "Doubles" [
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Andrew Bird, "Eyeoneye"
Apparat, "Black Water" [
MP3]
Bear In Heaven, "The Reflection Of You" [
MP3]
, "Old Pine" [
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Best Coast, "When I'm With You" [
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Big Deal, "Chair" [
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Black Tusk, "Set The Dial To Your Doom" [
MP3]
Blondes, "Wine" [
MP3]
Brendan Benson, "Bad For Me" [
MP3]
Bright Moments, "Travelers" [
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Caveman, "Old Friend" [
MP3]
, "Hysteria" [
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, "Come Home" [
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Chic Gamine, "Closer"
Chicha Libre, "La Danza Del Millonario"
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, "Same Mistake"
Cloud Nothings, "Stay Useless" [
MP3]
Crooked Fingers, "Your Apocalypse"
Cults, "Abducted"
Dan Deacon, "Bangkok"
, "Landfill" [
MP3]
Deafheaven, "Violet" [
MP3]
Dessa, "The Beekeeper"
, "In The Dark"
Dry The River, "New Ceremony" [
MP3]
Eleanor Friedberger, "My Mistakes" [
MP3]
Emma-Louise, "Jungle" [
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, "Erica Western Teleport" [
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The Front Bottoms, "Maps" [
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Fanfarlo, "Deconstruction"
Feathers, "Believe"
Firehorse, "Our Hearts" [
MP3]
, "We Are Young"
G-Side, "NAT GEO" [
MP3]
Gappy Ranks, "Longtime"
Garland Jeffreys, "Coney Island Winter"
Girl In A Coma, "Smart" [
MP3]
Great Lake Swimmers, "Easy Come Easy Go" [
MP3]
Grimes, "Oblivion" [
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Heartless Bastards, "Parted Ways" [
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Herzog, "Silence"
Horse Feathers, "Fit Against The Country" [
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Hospitality, "Friends Of Friends" [
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Imperial Teen, "Runaway" [
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JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, "Everything Will Be Fine" [
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Kendrick Lamar, "Ab-Souls Outro (feat. Ab-Soul)" [
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Kishi Bashi, "Bright Whites" [
MP3]
La Sera, "Please Be My Third Eye" [
MP3]
La Vida Boheme, "Nicaragua" [
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Laura Gibson, "La Grande"
Lee Fields & The Expressions, "Faithful Man"
, "Cold Feet" [
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Lost In The Trees, "Red"
Lower Dens, "Brains" [
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, "Little Suitcase"
The Magnetic Fields, "Andrew In Drag"
The Men, "Open Your Heart" [
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Michael Kiwanuka, "Home Again"
Milagres, "Here To Stay" [
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Milo Greene, "1957" [
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Mind Spiders, "Wait For Us" [
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The Milk Carton Kids, "There By Your Side" [
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Nada Surf, "When I Was Young" [
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Nicolas Jaar, "With Just One Glance" [
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, "Dead Oaks" [
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Of Monsters And Men, "Little Talks" [
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Patrick Watson, "Into Giants" [
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Polica, "Lay Your Cards Out" [
MP3]
Quiet Company, "You, Me & The Boatman" [
MP3]
Royal Thunder, "Mouth Of Fire" [
MP3]
Reks, "Autograph" [
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Robert Glasper Experiment, "Ah Yeah"
Sarah Jaffe, "Glorified High"
Sarah Siskind, "Feeling For You"
SBTRKT, "Wildfire" [
MP3]
, "We Will All Be Changed" [
MP3]
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80, "Rise" [
MP3]
Sepalcure, "Pencil Pimp"
Sharon Van Etten, "Serpents" [
MP3]
Shearwater, "You As You Were" [
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, "Sun's Going Down" [
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Silverbus, "Those Forgotten"
, "Get It Daddy"
Spoek Mathambo, "Put Some Red On It" [
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STS, "Here Tonight" [
MP3]
Tanlines, "Brothers" [
MP3]
THEESatisfaction, "QueenS" [
MP3]
Water Liars, "Dog Eaten"
We Are Augustines, "Headlong Into The Abyss" [
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We Were Promised Jetpacks, "Act On Impulse" [
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, "Keep You"
Y La Bamba, "Squawk" [
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Yellow Ostrich, "Marathon Runner" [
MP3]
Young Buffalo, "Catapilah" [
MP3]
Young Prisms, "Floating In Blue" [
MP3]
Zola Jesus, "Vessel" [
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