SXSW 2026: Deloyd Elze

 Luck Reunion artist. According to this bio:

Deloyd Elze, aka Jacob Henry Allen, is a genre-blending artist and poet from Jacksonville, Florida, whose music fuses traditional American songwriting with experimental and electronic textures...Now based in Los Angeles, he’s creating music that speaks to life’s many layers, drawing from his family’s history and his own journey of self-discovery and survival.

His moniker was his great-grandfather's name. He tells a good story about his great-grandfather meeting his wife here. The kicker:

They ended up staying at the same hotel, if by chance or design is still unclear. From what my family told me he apparently payed the bellhop to ride up and down the elevator all day until she finally got on. The bellhop asked for her name and then told her “Virginia, this is Deloyd. Y’all two have now been properly introduced”.

 They got married three days later and ended up having seven kids, one of which was my grandmother.

It's quite a story. Worth a read.

"Rite of Passage" reminds me of Bon Iver. 

It looks like he has just released an EP and a few singles. His new EP comes out March 6th.

This is with another Luck artist, Angela Autumn. 

SXSW 2026: The Band Loula

 Luck Reunion artist.  According to this website, their debut EP:

"Sweet Southern Summer" fuses the singer-songwriters southern rock, country, and folk influences together effortlessly.

It lists quick facts:

Full name – The Band Loula comprised of Malachi Mills and Logan Simmons

Hometown – Gainesville, Georgia

Current city – Nashville, Tennessee

Label – Warner Music Nashville

Current Project – Sweet Southern Summer EP (as of date of article: 8/25/2025)

Major label backing. 

"Marshall County Man" is a good murder ballad. I like her voice.

"A Little At A Time" is pretty good, too. 

This is more of a toe-tapper.  

SXSW 2026: Anna Tivel

Playing Luck Reunion.  She's a folk songwriter from Portland.  She has opened for Watchhouse, Hayes Carll, Courtney Marie Andrews, Gregory Alan Isakov, etc.  We've never seen her, though.

She just released her 7th studio album. 

According to Wikipedia:

Anna Tivel is an American indie folk artist from Portland, Oregon who is critically recognized as "one of the finest songwriters of her generation." She is noted for being a "masterful storyteller" with her music often compared to that of Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker, as well as Elliott Smith and Paul Simon.

Damn. High praise.  I'm not sure why I've never heard of her before. I guess she's more of an artists' artist. 

Very mellow tunes. They could put her in the Chapel.

Here is her NPR Tiny Desk Concert. 

This is off her latest album.

SXSW 2026: The Animeros

Playing Luck Reunion. They are listed in the email lineup but aren't on the poster.  They are also the KUTX artist of the month for this month (Black History Month. Guess no black artists to highlight this month).

KUTX says:

Their journey took an unexpected turn when their music reached the ears of Grammy Award–winning producer, songwriter, and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach. Auerbach first heard them by chance, their music floating from an open hotel window and stopping him in his tracks. Captivated, he made a note to track them down, and within a year that chance encounter led to something bigger.

Now signed to Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label, The Animeros are preparing to release their debut album later this year, produced exclusively by Auerbach himself.

It says their name was "inspired by Colombian shamans who would usher lost souls to peace."

It also describes their sound: "crafts a genre-blending sound that drifts between the lush jungles of Colombia, the palm-lined streets of 1960s coastal Mexico, and the dusty cantinas of West Texas."

Waterloo Records filmed their in-store performance.  It is here.  (I wonder if they film all the in-stores now?)

Here is their first single. Good festival music.

SXSW 2026: Hannah Cohen

 Another Luck Reunion artist.  She has a Wikipedia page.  It says:

Hannah Cohen was born in San Francisco, CA and comes from a family of musicians and booksellers. Her grandfather, Bertie Rodgers, was a poet. Her father is the jazz drummer Myron Cohen. Cohen left home as a teenager, soon finding herself in New York and becoming something of a muse to the city's art scene.

She has put out 4 albums over the last 15 years over long intervals. Her latest album is getting rave reviews.  One post on reddit calls it "shades of 70s rock, country, giallo, dream pop, folk and funk."

"Mountain" has a Fleetwood Mac feel.

Here is her live on KCRW. 

This is good.