MTV News: Austinist Is a Badass
Austinist featured on MTV news for its coverage of SXSW.
Responding to the report, writers for local site Austinist.com decided to take matters in their own hands by compiling a massive list of “confirmed” acts without the blessing of SXSW.
“We read the article, and we thought, ‘Now, come on. That’s just silly.’ And we realized that lots of bands would just confirm that they were playing through their MySpace pages or their official Web sites, and so we figured that with a few phone calls and some digging that we could put together a pretty good list,” Tom Thornton, a writer for the site, explained. “And though SXSW hasn’t announced most of these bands, we feel pretty confident that they’re all going to be here. Of course, there are some pretty ridiculous rumors out there; I heard there was going to be a Nirvana reunion, with Ben Kweller playing guitar, and there were some rumors that David Hasselhoff is going to be here. But, like I said, we’re not about to include anything like that on our list.
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