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Nile Rodgers will be the keynote speaker at SXSW 2017 (plus a list of 200 recently announced acts)

Anna Rahmanan
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Shit, is it that time of the year already? Yep, SXSW is once again just around the corner (March 13-19, 2017) and the festival has just announced its keynote speaker—the king of funk himself: Nile Rodgers.

He'll join a roster of already-announced names that will surely draw the hordes to Austin come March. Below, an additional 200 performers that just confirmed attendance: 

424 (San José, Costa Rica)
#YEI (Miami, Florida)
4×4 (Bogotá, Colombia)
Agrupacion Cariño (Mexico City, Mexico)
Federico Albanese (Berlin, Germany)
ALI AKA MIND (Bogotá, Colombia)
Altre di B (Bologna, Italy)
Aminé (Portland, Oregon)
Apache (Cara, Venezuela)
Aries (Bilbao, Spain)
Artificial Pleasure (London, England)
AUTOBAHN (Leeds, England)
Avi Buffalo (Long Beach, California)
Baskery (Stockholm, Sweden)
Beach Slang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Jean-Michel Blais (Montreal, Canada)
The Blind Suns (Angers, France)
Betty Bonifassi (Quebec, Canada)
Boulevards (Raleigh, North Carolina)
The Britanys (New York, New York)
Brodka (Warsaw, Poland)
Caddywhompus (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Calliope Musicals (Austin, Texas)
Charlotte Cardin (Montreal, Canada)
Josh Cashman (Melbourne, Australia)
Catholic Action (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Chamanas (El Paso, Texas)
Glen Check (Seoul, South Korea)
Cherry Glazerr (Los Angeles, California)
CHINAH (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Gabriella Cohen (Melbourne, Australia)
Cold Specks (Toronto, Canada)
Communist Daughter (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
COMPLETE (Fort Worth, Texas)
The Cool Kids (Chicago, Illinois)
Cotton Mather (Austin, Texas)
Dark Times (Oslo, Norway)
Dawg Yawp (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Dead Leaf Echo (New York, New York)
Death Valley Girls (Los Angeles, California)
DEM YUUT (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Desert Mountain Tribe (London, England)
Die Heiterkeit (Hamburg, Germany)
The Dig (Brooklyn, New York)
Dirty Lungs (Birmingham, Alabama)
Dizzyride (New York, New York)
DJ Yoda (London, England)
Dream Wife (London, England)
Dude York (Seattle, Washington)
Dyan (Los Angeles, California)
Sergio Echenique (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Edison (Denver, Colorado)
Billie Eilish (Highland Park, California)
El Tambor de la Tribu (Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Noga Erez (Tel Aviv, Israel)
ESKA (London, England)
False Advertising (Manchester, England)
False Witness (New York, New York)
The Family Crest (San Francisco, California)
Fickle Friends (Brighton, England)
Field Mouse (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
The fin. (Tokyo, Japan)
Flor (Hood River, Oregon)
The Fontaines (Los Angeles, California)
Future Elevators (Birmingham, Alabama)
Gabylonia (Caracas, Venezuela)
Gang (Brighton, England)
GoGo Penguin (London, England)
Gona (Caracas, Venezuela)
Greg Graffin (New York, New York)
Greenbeard (Austin, Texas)
Nick Hakim (Washington, DC)
Halfalib (Milan, Italy)
Hanba! (Cracow, Poland)
Aldous Harding (Christchurch, New Zealand)
The Heart Collectors (Murwillumbah, Australia)
HECK (Nottingham, England)
Hector (Berlin, Germany)
Sven Helbig (Dresden, Germany)
Oliver Heldens (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Her’s (Liverpool, England)
HI-LO (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
His Clancyness (Bologna, Italy)
Hockey Dad (Wollongong, Australia)
Ian Sweet (Brooklyn, New York)
Indrajit Banerjee (Austin, Texas)
Jah9 (Trelawny, Jamaica)
Andrew Jansen, LOUD SUN (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Jared & the Mill (Phoenix, Arizona)
Alice Jemima (Exeter, England)
Wesley Jensen and The Penny Arcade (Denton, Texas)
Jim and Sam (Los Angeles, California)
Meilyr Jones (Aberystwyth, Wales)
Joywave (Rochester, New York)
Yussef Kamaal (London, England)
Hayley Kiyoko (Los Angeles, California)
Klyne (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Sarathy Korwar (London, England)
La Habitación Roja (Valencia, Spain)
Ciaran Lavery (Aghagallon, Ireland)
Chad Lawson (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Luna Lee (Seoul, South Korea)
Jennie Lena (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Lewis Del Mar (Rockaway Beach, New York)
Lianna (Bogotá, Colombia)
Liniker e os Caramelows (São Paulo, Brazil)
Living Body (Carleton, Michigan)
Lois (Madrid, Spain)
Los Reyes Vagos (Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Lovespeake (Oslo, Norway)
Walker Lukens (Austin, Texas)
Holly Macve (Brighton, England)
Magnolian (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
Mal Blum & The Blums (Brooklyn, New York)
Mansionair (Sydney, Australia)
Mau Mau Chaplains (Austin, Texas)
Damien McFly (Padova, Italy)
Menace Beach (Leeds, England)
Bridgit Mendler (Los Angeles, California)
Modern English (London, England)
The Molochs (Los Angeles, California)
Monareta (Bogotá, Colombia)
Moses Boyd Exodus (London, England)
Mr. Blaky (Mazatlán, Mexico)
Mt. Wolf (London, England)
Mullally (Norfolk, England)
Muncie Girls (Exeter, England)
The Mystery Lights (Brooklyn, New York)
Native Dancer (London, England)
Neon Bunny (Seoul, South Korea)
New Portals (Belfast, Ireland)
No Joy (Montreal, Canada)
NoMBe (Heidelberg, Germany)
Nothing For Breakfast (Florence, Italy)
Novedades Carminha (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Ofeliadorme (Bologna, Italy)
Tunde Olaniran (Flint, Michigan)
Omni (Atlanta, Georgia)
Orkestar Kriminal (Montreal, Canada)
Oum Shatt (Berlin, Germany)
The Parrots (Madrid, Spain)
Perro (Murcia, Spain)
Phoria (Brighton, England)
Pixx (Chipstead, England)
Plantation Band (Austin, Texas)
Polock (Valencia, Spain)
PWR BTTM (New York, New York)
Quiet Company (Austin, Texas)
Rainbrother (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Rat Fancy (Los Angeles, California)
Raymundo (Los Angeles, California)
Reigning Days (Torquay, England)
Residual Kid (Austin, Texas)
Robocobra Quartet (Belfast, England)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (Melbourne, Australia)
Roselit Bone (Portland, Oregon)
SadGirl (Los Angeles, California)
Saint (Malmö, Sweden)
Joel Sarakula (London, England)
Shedrach Rowery & The Levites (Austin, Texas)
Shinobi Ninja (Brooklyn, New York)
Silvastone (London, England)
Simian Ghost (Stockholm, Sweden)
Slaves (London, England)
Noah Slee (Berlin, Germany)
Slingshot Dakota (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
SLØTFACE (Oslo, Norway)
Small Time Giants (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Caitlyn Smith (Nashville, Tennesse)
The Sore Losers (Hasselt, Belgium)
SORNE (Los Angeles, California)
Special Explosion (Seattle, Washington)
Stay (Barcelona, Spain)
STELLA (Bay Area, California)
Sun And The Wolf (Berlin, Germany)
Sunset (Chicago, Illinois)
Sweet Crude (New Orleans, Louisiana)
SX (Kortrijk, Belgium)
TARMAC (Medellin, Colombia)
Tei Shi (Vancouver, Canada)
Tempers (New York, New York)
Temples (Kettering, England)
Ten Bears (Madrid, Spain)
Tender (London, England)
Ten Tonnes (Hertford, England)
TIGER! SHIT! TIGER! TIGER! (Foligno, Italy)
Triangulo de Amor Bizarro (La Coruña, Spain)
Tribu Baharu (Bogotá, Colombia)
Ultimate Painting (London, England)
United Vibrations (London, England)
Uyarakq x Peand-eL x Tarrak (Nuuk, Greenland)
Valley Hush (Detroit, Michigan)
Vargas (Caracas, Venezuela)
Mariana Vega (Miami, Florida)
Verdiana Raw (Firenze, Italy)
VÉRITÉ (New York, New York)
David Vincent (Georgetown, Texas)
Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear (Independence, Missouri)
Lewis Watson (Oxford, England)
Weaves (Toronto, Canada)
Whitest Taino Alive (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Wildwood Kin (Exeter, England)
Jess Williamson (Austin, Texas)
Windy City (Seoul, South Korea)
Wintertime (Orlando, Florida)
Wood & Wire (Austin, Texas)
XXX (Seoul, South Korea)
Yonaka (Brighton, England)
Kristeen Young (New York, New York)
Yung Beef (Barcelona, Spain)
The Zephyr Bones (Barcelona, Spain)

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