South by Southwest, Austin’s world-famous conference of music, art, film, and culture is upon once more. The event’s legendary music program recently kicked off and already people are buzzing about all the bands that are sure to explode in the coming months.
For artists around the world, including many in Australia, which has sent a number of acts to SXSW this year, playing SXSW is make or break. Good reviews and shaking the right hands can do big things for your career and SXSW has become the place where many up-and-comers go big time.
Naturally, hundreds of bands and artists make their way to Austin each year, so to help our readers navigate the web of all these great artists and find out who everyone’s losing their minds over, we’ve compiled a list of 11 of the most buzzed-about acts at SXSW 2015.

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