As we prepare for the SXSW music droolfest that will take place once the official schedule for the annual Web/Film/Music festival and tradeshow — (clap, clap, clap) deep in the heart of Texas — the Filter Magazine Blog has a sneak peek at 2007 band lineups. After all, last year’s roster was released Dec. 15, people! This is agony!

Here’s what Donewaiting can gather:

–Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s
–Mates of State
–Malajube
–Headlights
–Thunderbirds are Now
–Snowden
–Voxtrot
–Six Parts Seven
–Canada
–The High Strung
–Page France
–Say Hi To Your Mom
–Saturday Looks Good To Me
–I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
–Discover America
–Rahim
–Gazelles
–The Dark Romantics
–Shapes & Sizes
–Architecture in Helsinki
–Youth Group
–The Panda Band
–Sarah Blasko
–New Buffalo
–Evermore
–Badly Drawn Boy

Last year’s Minneapolis-based groups included

–Dan Israel
–Coach Said Not To
–Mark Mallman
–Kill the Vultures
–The Plastic Constellations
–Tim O’Reagan
–DeeJay Bird
–P.O.S.
–Brother Ali
–Atmosphere
–Solid Gold
–Sukpatch
–Tapes N Tapes
–Dropping Daylight
–The Owls
–The Magnolias
–The Deaths
–Nativos
–Metallagher

We already bought our tickets and are certain more and more bands will continue to be added officially and unofficially as we near mid-March. And as more established groups continue to invade the usual Austin haunts, we’ll also be looking for the best undiscovered groups to pop up in the off-the-grid clubs.

Are you going to SXSW? Drop us a line, if so!