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As you are reading this post, the Invisible Children Music team are en route to Austin, Texas, for SXSW. We’re mainly preparing for our Welcome Home SXSW Showcase – which you can find details for [HERE] – but also we’re just generally very excited for a week in Texas with some of the most promising talents in the music world.

That said, we are dedicated to our weekly Monday Mini Mixtape installments and are thus happy to present marchTWO to the interwebs.

Per usual, support the artists you’re into. We all have to.

01. LAURA MARLING – “Where Can I Go?” :: She’s one of my favorite songwriters of all time, and she’s returning with this track off her forthcoming fourth record. Yet again, she’s crushing it.

02. SHE & HIM – “Never Wanted Your Love” :: The duo of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel shared the first single taken off their album Volume Three. Her vocals are only getting better.

03. THE COLOURIST – “Little Games” :: We’re massively into The Colourist and have been since they played our 2012 Holiday Benefit Show. This tune is very large and will surely dominate our spring. That guitar riff is everything.

04. BOY – “Little Numbers” :: I’ve been reading that this is the indie “Call Me Maybe,” so I had to include it on this week’s MMM. You cannot deny a statement like that.

05. BANKS – “Fall Over” :: Los Angeles’s Banks has been on the rise with her debut single “Before I Ever Met You” – a dark jam receiving large praise on Radio 1. This b-side continues to keep us all interested.

06. CHARLOTTE CHURCH – “Glitterbombed” :: The Charlotte Church, the one of youth choir dreams, is now some exceptionally strange Kate Bush type of a musician who couldn’t care less about industry success, and it’s incredible. Her two EPs of the past few months One and Two are genre-melding masterpieces.

07. KATE NASH – “Sister” :: Neo-riot grrrl Kate Nash’s latest album Girl Talk is ideally defiant. This is a true highlight off a record of ingenious songs.

08. DENISON WITMER – “Keep Moving Brother, Keep Moving Sister” :: An Invisible Children supporter from the beginning, Denison Witmer is preparing to release his tenth studio album – an effort that enlisted the help of fellow musicians William Fitzismmons and Sufjan Stevens.

09. CILLIE BARNES – “Brainwash” :: Office favorite and California chanteuse Cillie Barnes’s newest track is bringing in some classic pop elements that we’ve been missing.