Spotify and Backplane have revamped their South by Southwest music hackathon this year, changing the name from Manager's Hack to Artist's Hack and adding musical performances.
DJ Reflex (pictured), Paper Hotel, New York City Queen and Dawn & Hawkes will provide entertainment, Backplane told Mashable, as third-party music developers use application programming interfaces (APIs) to infuse features into their apps and platforms.
API partners for the March 10 hackathon include Spotify, YouTube, Klout, Dropbox, Etsy, PayPal, EchoNest, SendGrid, Aviary, Chute, Twilio, SeatGeek, Topspin and Gimbal.
Organizers on the event's registration page describe the 12-hour Artist's Hack as "a hackathon dedicated to building the future of music, art, video, collaborative thought."
Spotify engineers from Sweden and New York City will attend the event. Footage recorded at the hackathon in Austin, Texas, will be given to NASDAQ to display in NYC's Times Square.
"We have fantastic judges who will be announced the morning of the hackathon," Backplane spokeswoman Sarah Ross said. "Examples include Jay Brown, the president of Roc Nation, and Judy Estrin, networking technology pioneer and Silicon Valley leader."
BONUS: How 2012's SXSW Music Hackathon Panned Out
During Spotify and Backplane's music hackathon last year, Nike unleashed the API for NikeFuel — the company's metric for tracking physical activity within the FuelBand.
Watch the video to see how the event unfolded and which hacks finished in the top three.