Thanks to Austin’s South By Southwest festival, bands from all over the world (1,100 and counting) have descended upon the Lone Star State. And while some musicians stay for just the festival, a majority take advantage of the opportunity to showcase their music beyond the capital. Today, a good chunk of them ย including national talent and foreign acts ย will make their way to Super Happy Fun Land for the final day of its three-day SXSW Overflow Fest 2006. America is repped by acts like New York grinders the Dead Betties and Seattle’s posing rockers Boss Martians. Solo musicians Christine Fellows, Carolyn Mark and Luke Doucet will represent the Great White North. New Zealand’s Bats, a four-piece pop band with the same lineup they had when they began 22 years ago (impressive!), are also on the bill. And don’t miss the Bats’ countrymen, the electro-junk-punk trio Cortina, as well as the Kiwi spazz-punks Die Die Die!
March 17-19
This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2006.