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Spinner's Daily SXSW Roundup

We're just eight days away from SXSW Music 2010, and Spinner is positively overflowing with interviews from bands showcasing in Austin this year, fuelled in large part by your contributions. Today, we'll take a look at a few of our favorite interviews so far -- from Chilean alt-rockers to Joan Jett protegés; Latvian indie kids with a Rolling Stones connection to '60s Cambodian rock revivalists. Follow all of AOL Music's SXSW coverage.

The Ganjas SXSW 2010 Interview
As children growing up in Chile during Pinochet's military regime, members of the band the Ganjas dreamed of becoming rock stars. But under the dictatorship, music and culture in Chile were effectively wiped clean, and a live music scene was practically non-existent.
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The Dollyrots SXSW 2010 Interview
With an EP released this past January and an album due out this summer on Blackheart Records, 2010 is shaping up to be a big year for pop-punk band the Dollyrots.
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BrainStorm SXSW 2010 Interview
By the fall of 2005, Latvian band BrainStorm was selling out to record crowds in their homeland. Just a year later MTV honored them as the first-ever Best Baltic Act.
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Dengue Fever SXSW 2010 Interview
Dengue Fever, formed in 2001 by Ethan Holtzman, who plays the Farfisa organ, and his brother Zac, who sings and plays guitar, revives that little known genre: Cambodian psychedelic rock.
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Alvarez Kings SXSW 2010 Interview
Making their way onto the indie scene, rockers the Alvarez Kings are just one of the bands featured in this year's SXSW festival.
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The Chicharones SXSW 2010 Interview
Portland-based group the Chicharones are gearing up for their 12th visit to SXSW, as well as the release of their new album, 'Swine Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' due out this spring.
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Del Castillo SXSW 2010 Interview
Del Castillo accidentally started a ten-year journey into international acclaim because Mark and Rick del Castillo were nice to their parents.
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Gordon Gano and the Ryan Brothers SXSW 2010 Interview
Although Gordon Gano and the Ryan Brothers' debut album 'Under the Sun' was released in September of 2009, fans of alternative rock will be pleased to hear a familiar voice.
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Bry Bry

Cant wait for SXSW, we are Future echo from Manchester, Uk are gonna be there, hear their sending 63 of their guys!!! thats alot for a record company!!! looking forward to it!!!

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