Every year, the SXSW Music Festival features thousands of artists from around the world. And every year, The Austin 100 winnows them down to an even hundred discoveries and highlights across genres. Each song on the list is streamable through NPR Music's gorgeous Austin 100 app until March 31, 2017.
This is a remarkable six hours of music � painstakingly culled from a bulk playlist spanning nearly five days � all designed to trigger further exploration. It's also only the beginning of our SXSW 2016 coverage: You can find full concerts, photos, videos and dispatches from this year's festival at . So check out the app, come back for more from SXSW and, most of all, enjoy the music.
The Austin 100 Playlist
, "Habib Galbi"
, "Dead Eyes"
, "Everybody Out"
, "Trembles Part II"
, "That Kind Of Girl"
, "All Day All Night"
, "The Season/Carry Me"
, "Sit Here And Cry" (from New City Blues)
, "Running With The Wolves"
, "Spectrolite"
, "Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas"
, "Victoria"
, "National Parks"
, "The Ocean And The Sea"
, "Chlorine"
, "Keep On Keepin' On"
, "Vincent (Edit)"
, "Arms Away"
, "Black Lipstick"
, "The Conversation"
, "Revengeance"
, "I Wanna Waste My Time On You"
, "Cinnamon"
, "Venom"
, "Stuck"
, "Don Taco & His Hot Sauce Toss"
, "Breathless"
, "The Touch"
, "Killer Bees"
, "Inez Palema"
, "Monstro"
, "Atta Blues"
, "For The Horde"
, "Again"
, "Luna"
, "Light Me Up"
, "Magic Mountain"
, "Warm Blood"
, "Siete-D"
, "Patriarchaeth"
, "Oracle"
, "Alright Goodnight"
, "I Need A Connection (Edit)"
, "Hold On"
, "Landslide"
, "I'll Give You More"
, "Hoops"
, "L.A. Dream"
, "Sprained Ankle"
, "The Greatest"
, "8896"
, "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore"
, "I Won't Be Here"
, "Somebody To Anybody"
, "Hurtin' (On The Bottle)"
, "Every Night You've Got To Save Me"
, "Last Night In My Dream"
, "Idée Fixe"
, "P's & Q's (prod. by Kaytranada)"
, "Talking With Strangers"
, "Sadly Yes"
, "It Hurts Until It Doesn't"
, "Hex"
, "Child"
, "Tzenni"
, "Creektime"
, "The Race"
, "Pining"
, "Finery"
, "La Vie Est Belle/Life Is Beautiful"
, "Hurricane"
, "Oh Love"
, "Bliss"
, "1994"
, "Wayfaring Stranger"
, "Antidote"
, "Actually"
, "Sweat"
, "Ghost Town"
, "Giants"
, "Necromancer"
, "Swim"
, "Drinkee"
, "August 17th"
, Tropicoller Lease"
, "My Me"
, "I Hate The Weekend"
, "The Keys"
, "Is It True"
, "Ogallala"
, "Cutting My Fingers Off"
, "Too Big World"
, "Akatsukino Ito"
, "Tapes"
, "I Can Swing A Hammer"
, "Hungry"
, "Where I'm Going"
, "Seize The Night"
, "They / Them / Theirs"
, "Blue Uniforms"
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