The South By Southwest conferences and festivals in Austin, Texas, have already kicked off and will go on through most of this week. On Sunday the conference buzz was about a keynote interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in which the interviewer, BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, was heckled for rambling non-questions. For those of you that are going, DMW is happy to once again bring you the hottest list of buzz bands and parties, courtesy of music publicist Fiona Bloom:

Alice Russell
Dandi Wind
O Quarto Das Cinzas
El-P
Dizzee Rascal
Free The Robots
Roxy Cottontail
The Gaslamp Killer
Diplo
Eldar

Syd Straw
Shout Out Out Out
Asylum Street Spankers
Har Mar Superstars

Yahzarah Purple
Choklate
Maya Azucena
Sway Dasafo
Melissa Young
Russell Taylor
J*Davey
Miz Metro
Renee Sebastian
Jennifer Johns
Bavu Blakes
Heavy
Reykjavik
R.E.M
Cool Kids
The English Beat
The Iguanas
Money Mark
Tommy Guerrero
Del The Funky Homosapien
Saul Williams
Killa Kella
Ingrid Michaelson
Akala
Noisettes
Zion I
Holy Fuck
Justin Nozuka
The Kills
Inner Visions
Simian Mobile Disco
The Black Angels
Fluokids
Ceci Bastida
Guilty Simpson
Apsci
The Black Ghosts
Darryl Hall
Dub Trio
Eddie Whalen
Buckshot
Grand Analog
Plastic Little
Santogold
The Stills
Chuck Prophet
The Cops
C-Mon and Kypski
The Helio Sequence
Supersuckers
Prozak
Kottonmouth Jesse
Kid Sister
Thurston Moore band
Doujah Raze
Harvey Milk
The Bloody Beetroots
Ice Cube
The Virgins
Tech N9ne
Ian Moore
Shir Khan
Jahcoozi
Tee Double
Was (not was)
Z-Trip
David Banner
Sia
N.E.R.D
Fight like Apes

Showcases not to be missed!

Five Six Media/King Britt

Fools Gold

Kill Rock Stars

Afro Punk

Lastly- way too many parties to list them all but the ones I’m most excited about:

Fader Levis Fort
VICE
Frank 151
NPR
E Music
Spin
Gothamist
BMI Brunch
Blender
Lion’s Gate

Personally, I'd also like to add the crazy Ohio brothers that make up Gil Mantera's Party Dream. They play Emo's on Thursday the 13th (the kork agency official showcase at 10:00PM) and mess with texas 2 fest at waterloo park - saturday the 15th - 5:00 sharp. Free to the public. http://www.messwithtexasparty.com. I saw them play a packed the Echo on Saturday in Los Angeles and it was very entertaining, but not for the faint-hearted!

Joakim Baage