Neon Reverb festival announces official lineup

Just before the holidays, local music fans were gifted with news that Neon Reverb, the downtown music festival founded by Thirry Harlin, James Woodbridge and Jason Aragon, was being revived in the spring after taking three years off. Slated for the second weekend in March, the festival was being planned for those dates (Thursday, March 10 through Sunday March 13) specifically in an effort to align with the routing of bands making their way to Texas for South By Southwest, Austin's annual music festival which draws acts from all across the globe.

"It's a pretty easy diversion to Las Vegas on your way down to Austin, no matter where you're coming from," 11th Street Records owner Ronald Corso, one of the festival's organizers, told us at the time. "We figure that we'll be able to catch some pretty cool touring bands on their way to South By Southwest by doing it that weekend."

Great call, obviously. The festival's full lineup was revealed today, and from the looks of it, full is an incredibly apt description. If you haven't seen it yet, Neon Reverb's roster is righteous. Headliners this year include Melvins, Big Business, Ty Segall and Athe Muggers, Beach Slang, Sage Francis, Eleanor Friedberger, Big Business, Chuck Ragan and more, along with some solid independent acts from elsewhere like Wheelchair Sports Camp and My Body Sings Electric and a laudable list of local favorites like Mercy Music, Cameron Calloway, the Lique, Rusty Maples, Same Sex Mary, Hassan Hamilton, the Astaires and Dusty Sunshine, whose reunion last week will see an encore performance, and more.

Tickets for the four-day festival, which will be spread out across downtown at a number of venues, including 11th Street Records, the Bunkhouse, Backstage Bar & Billiards and Beauty Bar, and range from $50 for a weekend pass to $15 for a single show (in limited quantities) and are available now via Ticketfly. Keep reading for the full roster of acts below.

Ty Segall and the Muggers, Neon Indian, Melvins, Beach Slang, Sage Francis, Eleanor Friedberger, Big Business, Chuck Ragan, La Sera, El Ten Eleven, James Supercave, Tijuana Panthers, Colleen Green, Moving Units, Open Mike Eagle, the Mynabirds, Leopold and His Fiction, the Aquadolls, Babes, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Astronauts, Etc., Gems, My Body Sings Electric, Chaos Chaos, Sego, Sadgirl, Failure Machine, Haunted Summer, Partybaby, All Night Visitors, the All-Togethers, the Astaires, Avalon Landing, Big Friendly Corporation, Black Camaro, Cameron Calloway, China, Close to Modern, Dark Black, Dirty Hooks, DJ Fish, Dusty Sunshine, Fredward, Glass Pools, Good Grief, Hassan Hamilton, Headwinds, Hektor Rawkerz, Hungry Cloud, Illicitor, Jacob Savage, Jeff Mix and the Songhearts, Jesse Pino, Kerfoot and Dau, Kitze + the CPUS, Late for Dinner, Leather Lungs, the Lique, the Mapes, Mercy Music, Moksha, Moonboots, Narrowed, On the Other Hand, the Pluralses, Professor Rex Dart, Richard Grewar, Rusty Maples, Same Sex Mary, Special K, Totescity, Ulysses Diaz and Wizdumb.

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