A Couple More Adds For Denton’s 35 Conferette: Jessica Lea Mayfield, A Place to Bury Strangers, Reading Rainbow and Others…

The Denton-hosted, pre-South by Southwest festival formerly known as NX35 went and released another round of performers slated to play its festivities in March today — and, as with the last round of additions, it features a couple of interesting names.

Among today’s several adds: Ohio-based singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield; acclaimed New York City noise-rockers A Place to Bury Strangers; and Gorilla Vs. Bear darlings Reading Rainbow and Nite Jewel.

Add them to a list that already includes Mavis Staples, Damien Jurado, Japanther, Parts & Labor, Colour Revolt, Royal Bangs, Reggie Watts, Viva Voce and others and the 2001 version of the 35 Conferette appears to be shaping up quite nicely, Flaming Lips or not.

Check out the entire list of already-announced bands (which still doesn’t include any local adds) and the latest press release after the jump.

Announced 35 Conferette performers to date:
Mavis Staples
Japanther
Royal Bangs
Damien Jurado
Viva Voce
Colour Revolt
Parts & Labor
Jessica Lea Mayfield
A Place to Bury Strangers
Nite Jewel
Davila 666
The Mumlers
Pterodactyl
Franz Nicolay
David Dondero
Reading Rainbow
Reggie Watts
Santah
Now Now Every Children
Atlantic/Pacific
Young Buffalo
Southeast Engine
Sugar & Gold
Yip Deceiver

35
Conferette Adds Nonesuch Records’ Jessica Lea Mayfield to Roster for
2011

DENTON,
Texas (December 2, 2010) — 35
Conferette
welcomes Nonesuch Records darling Jessica
Lea Mayfield to
the lineup for 2011. The 21-year-old singer-songwriter will appear at the
festival, March 10-13, supporting Tell
Me,
her sophomore album produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys slated for
release February 8th.

A
Place to Bury Strangers,
who hold the unofficial yet potently true title of “loudest band in New York,”
emerging bedroom fuzz-pop duo Reading
Rainbow,
and Davila
666 of
San Juan, Puerto Rico, known for theatrical, interactive sets involving exotic
dancers, are also confirmed to perform. Other breakout acts and sonic
craftspeople recently announced to play 35 include The
Mumlers,
Pterodactyl,
Franz
Nicolay,
David
Dondero,
and Nite
Jewel.

Presale
tickets for 35 Conferette via
Prekindle.com
are available at a discounted price of $70 for a very limited time. The festival
NPR’s Texas Music Matters deemed “the
little conference that could” has
already confirmed Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
Mavis
Staples,
whose
recent record You
Are Not Alone was
announced
as a Grammy contender for best Americana album last night; T-Bone Burnett
protegees The Secret Sisters,
comedian/musician
Reggie
Watts,
neo-psych band
Royal
Bangs,
art-rock duo
Japanther,
and indie-folk artist
Damien
Jurado
in its earliest announcements regarding the 4-day event programmed in the heart
of Denton, Texas’ central business district.

As
a 15-year-old in Kent, Ohio, Mayfield made her first EP, White
Lies,
in her big brother’s bedroom. They printed just 100 copies, one of which fell
into the hands of Auerbach, a fellow Ohian. The first fruit of a collaborative
bond between the budding artist and the new-bluesman stewed for two years in
Auerbach’s home studio: Mayfield’s debut full-length, 2008’s With
Blashphemy So Heartfelt.

Pitchfork
stamped
the record with
a score of 8.2, deeming it “fascinating and endlessly listenable.”

Tell
Me
is available
now for preorder.
You can download the first single here.

2010’s
event in Denton saw the North American debut of Australia’s The Middle East
[Brooklyn
Vegan],
a keynote address by seminal punk icon Steve Albini, and a free outdoor show
featuring The Flaming Lips with Denton’s Midlake supporting. Eleven venues were
used for regular programming and about 225 bands from Denton [Best
Music Scene,
Paste,
2008] to Dublin were on the lineup, deemed a
“scorcher”
by the Austin
American-Statesman.
An estimated 20,000 people attended over the weekend.

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