The return of Squawkatiel Madness!

Flight of the Squawkatiel presents the 2nd annual Squawkatiel Madness! In honor of NCAA's March Madness, 64 artists who have been played on Flight of the Squawkatiel in the past year will go head to head in a similar style tournament for the title of your favorite Flight of the Squawkatiel artist of the year. The winner will get a special show dedicated to their music on the April 9th episode of Flight of the Squawkatiel (plus a cool banner that will be displayed on this blog).

Last year's inaugural Squawkatiel Madness was a success and you, the listeners, voted Beach House as your Squawkatiel Madness champion for 2013. This year, Beach House is not in the running since they didn't release any new music, so who will your winner be for 2014?

The first round matches are:

Beach Fossils (1) vs. Tera Melos (16)

Foals (8) vs. Sleigh Bells (9)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (4) vs. Superchunk (13)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5) vs. Frankie Rose (12)

The Strokes (2) vs. CocoRosie (15)

Arctic Monkeys (7) vs. Dum Dum Girls (10)

They Might Be Giants (3) vs. Shout Out Louds (14)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (6) vs. Enter the Haggis (11)

Vampire Weekend (1) vs. Still Corners (16)

Washed Out (8) vs. Youth Lagoon (9)

Kurt Vile (4) vs. Marissa Nadler (13)

Of Montreal (5) vs. Speedy Ortiz (12)

Real Estate (2) vs. Minks (15)

Bibio (7) vs. Cheatahs (10)

Tycho (3) vs. Poliça (14)

Wild Nothing (6) vs. Iron & Wine (11)

Broken Bells (1) vs. Saturday Looks Good to Me (16)

Surfer Blood (8) vs. Minus the Bear (9)

Los Campesinos! (4) vs. Warpaint (13)

Tennis (5) vs. The Notwist (12)

Phantogram (2) vs. The Melodic (15)

Phoenix (7) vs. Frank Turner (10)

Dr. Dog (3) vs. Generationals (14)

Franz Ferdinand (6) vs. Frightened Rabbit (11)

Gogol Bordello (1) vs. Man Man (16)

Queens of the Stone Age (8) vs. Pretty & Nice (9)

Arcade Fire (4) vs. Adrian Roye & the Exiles (13)

Sigur Ros (5) vs. Kitten (12)

Daft Punk (2) vs. The Appleseed Cast (15)

The Fratellis (7) vs. Delorean (10)

Rubblebucket (3) vs. Home by Hovercraft (14)

Bombay Bicycle Club (6) vs. Portugal. The Man (11)

Click here for the Challonge bracket.

This year, there are seed rankings so you are more likely to know at least one of the artists in each match. Seeds were determined by a score of 2x who people are most likely to vote for + 1x my personal preference.
Stay tuned for details on how to vote: on this blog, on Facebook, and on Soundcloud.

VOTE FOR ROUND 1 HERE!