The Austin 100: A SXSW Mix

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SXSW is all about volume, in more ways than one. Roughly 2,000 acts perform at the four-day music festival every year, so to spend just three minutes with each in advance of the big event is to deny your friends and loved ones a solid 100 hours of your waking, undivided attention.

With 100 handpicked festival highlights and thrilling discoveries in a meaty but digestible microcosm of SXSW, The Austin 100 plays as a continuous seven-hour mix — everything from Daughter's devastatingly barren "Landfill" to Black Tusk's devastatingly blistering "Set the Dial to Your Doom." (As a bonus, 71 of these songs are available for free download here.) Be sure to visit NPR.org/SXSW for live concerts, photos, videos and dispatches from this year's festival.

Adam Arcuragi, "Presidents' Song" [MP3]

Alabama Shakes, "I Found You" [MP3]

Allen Stone, "Sleep" [MP3]

Amy Bezunartea, "Doubles" [MP3]

Andrew Bird, "Eyeoneye"

Apparat, "Black Water" [MP3]

Bear In Heaven, "The Reflection Of You" [MP3]

Ben Howard, "Old Pine" [MP3]

Best Coast, "When I'm With You" [MP3]

Big Deal, "Chair" [MP3]

Black Tusk, "Set The Dial To Your Doom" [MP3]

Blondes, "Wine" [MP3]

Brendan Benson, "Bad For Me" [MP3]

Bright Moments, "Travelers" [MP3]

Caveman, "Old Friend" [MP3]

Ceremony, "Hysteria" [MP3]

Chappo, "Come Home" [MP3]

Chic Gamine, "Closer"

Chicha Libre, "La Danza Del Millonario"

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, "Same Mistake"

Cloud Nothings, "Stay Useless" [MP3]

Crooked Fingers, "Your Apocalypse"

Cults, "Abducted"

Dan Deacon, "Bangkok"

Daughter, "Landfill" [MP3]

Deafheaven, "Violet" [MP3]

Dessa, "The Beekeeper"

Dev, "In The Dark"

Dry The River, "New Ceremony" [MP3]

Eleanor Friedberger, "My Mistakes" [MP3]

Emma-Louise, "Jungle" [MP3]

Emperor X, "Erica Western Teleport" [MP3]

The Front Bottoms, "Maps" [MP3]

Fanfarlo, "Deconstruction"

Feathers, "Believe"

Firehorse, "Our Hearts" [MP3]

fun., "We Are Young"

G-Side, "NAT GEO" [MP3]

Gappy Ranks, "Longtime"

Garland Jeffreys, "Coney Island Winter"

Girl In A Coma, "Smart" [MP3]

Great Lake Swimmers, "Easy Come Easy Go" [MP3]

Grimes, "Oblivion" [MP3]

Heartless Bastards, "Parted Ways" [MP3]

Herzog, "Silence"

Horse Feathers, "Fit Against The Country" [MP3]

Hospitality, "Friends Of Friends" [MP3]

Imperial Teen, "Runaway" [MP3]

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, "Everything Will Be Fine" [MP3]

Kendrick Lamar, "Ab-Souls Outro (feat. Ab-Soul)" [MP3]

Kishi Bashi, "Bright Whites" [MP3]

La Sera, "Please Be My Third Eye" [MP3]

La Vida Boheme, "Nicaragua" [MP3]

Laura Gibson, "La Grande"

Lee Fields & The Expressions, "Faithful Man"

Lost Lander, "Cold Feet" [MP3]

Lost In The Trees, "Red"

Lower Dens, "Brains" [MP3]

Luluc, "Little Suitcase"

The Magnetic Fields, "Andrew In Drag"

The Men, "Open Your Heart" [MP3]

Michael Kiwanuka, "Home Again"

Milagres, "Here To Stay" [MP3]

Milo Greene, "1957" [MP3]

Mind Spiders, "Wait For Us" [MP3]

The Milk Carton Kids, "There By Your Side" [MP3]

Nada Surf, "When I Was Young" [MP3]

Nicolas Jaar, "With Just One Glance" [MP3]

Now, Now, "Dead Oaks" [MP3]

Of Monsters And Men, "Little Talks" [MP3]

Patrick Watson, "Into Giants" [MP3]

Polica, "Lay Your Cards Out" [MP3]

Quiet Company, "You, Me & The Boatman" [MP3]

Royal Thunder, "Mouth Of Fire" [MP3]

Reks, "Autograph" [MP3]

Robert Glasper Experiment, "Ah Yeah"

Sarah Jaffe, "Glorified High"

Sarah Siskind, "Feeling For You"

SBTRKT, "Wildfire" [MP3]

Seryn, "We Will All Be Changed" [MP3]

Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80, "Rise" [MP3]

Sepalcure, "Pencil Pimp"

Sharon Van Etten, "Serpents" [MP3]

Shearwater, "You As You Were" [MP3]

Shimmering Stars, "Sun's Going Down" [MP3]

Silverbus, "Those Forgotten"

Sleeper Agent, "Get It Daddy"

Spoek Mathambo, "Put Some Red On It" [MP3]

STS, "Here Tonight" [MP3]

Tanlines, "Brothers" [MP3]

THEESatisfaction, "QueenS" [MP3]

Water Liars, "Dog Eaten"

We Are Augustines, "Headlong Into The Abyss" [MP3]

We Were Promised Jetpacks, "Act On Impulse" [MP3]

Wild Belle, "Keep You"

Y La Bamba, "Squawk" [MP3]

Yellow Ostrich, "Marathon Runner" [MP3]

Young Buffalo, "Catapilah" [MP3]

Young Prisms, "Floating In Blue" [MP3]

Zola Jesus, "Vessel" [MP3]