--- title: South by Southwest: Jimmy Kimmel Interviews People About Fake Bands description: Jimmy Kimmel tricks music snobs into raving about artists like Eddie and His Manpurse and DJ Gluten canonical: https://time.com/3748856/jimmy-kimmel-sxsw-fake-bands/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-18T15:05:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:52.615Z og:title: Watch People at SXSW Pretend to Love Bands That Don't Exist og:description: Jimmy Kimmel tricks music snobs into raving about artists like DJ Gluten og:url: https://time.com/3748856/jimmy-kimmel-sxsw-fake-bands/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch People at SXSW Pretend to Love Bands That Don't Exist twitter:description: Jimmy Kimmel tricks music snobs into raving about artists like DJ Gluten twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch People at SXSW Pretend to Love Bands That Don't Exist by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 3:05 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 3:05 PM UTC Mary-Kate and Nasty? DJ Underwire? Cheese Wiz Khalifa? Jimmy Kimmel managed to trick a bunch of people into professing their love and appreciation for those artists — even though they are entirely fictional. For his latest [“Lie Witness News”](http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live/video/lie-witness-news) segment, Kimmel sent his team to Austin for the South by Southwest music festival to ask people for their opinions about everyone from Vlad and the Putins (which should actually be a real artist) to DJ Cialis (which should not be.) It’s pretty incredible to see how gullible these festival-goers are — and how willing they are to lie just so they seem cool. 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