Here are the sixteen acts that we saw at SXSW that will be making their way up to the area in the next couple of months.

christopher.poole Written by DCist contributor Sarah Sherman With all the balancing that had to happen on Sunday night at the Black Cat, Thao Nguyen’s mindful chaos with Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn’s polish, clarinets and violins with wild guitars and four-man percussion teams, the result of finding that spot where the bubble sits perfectly in the carpenter’s level, might have brought the bodies in the room to a standstill. The superband known as Thao and…

Thao Nguyen & the Get Down Stay Down are at the Black Cat tonight. Photo by Tarina Westlund, courtesy Kill Rock Stars. By DCist Contributor Adam Mazmanian Tonight’s Black Cat show will be a homecoming of sorts for Thao Nguyen. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter was born and raised in Falls Church, but by her own admission, she was too busy with college at William & Mary, and maybe “not well connected enough” to get very…

Two of our favorite local acts, Le Loup and These United States are taking the main stage of the Black Cat tomorrow night, in celebration of the release of Le Loup’s album, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. Both bands have graced the pages and stages of DCist in the past, so today we’re trying something different. Le Loup’s Sam Simkoff and Dan Ryan and TUS’ Jesse Elliot and…

FRIDAY: >> Howard University alum Eric Roberson performs tonight at the Black Cat along with Emily King. Doors open at 9 p.m. $17. >> It’s pretty much the end of times: Vanilla Ice will be at Foggy Bottom bar McFadden’s tonight, “drinking, partying, and hosting the night” starting at 10 p.m. $5 Jager bombs and $2 Bud and Bud Light bottles are little enticement to make this event anything more than laughable, but maybe if…