http://pinkoflamingo.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:47:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's Go Brownies! Fleet Foxes and Wilco doing Bob Dylan La Blogotheque concert series with Fleet Foxes, Noah & the Whale, the Dodos, and two bands I've never heard of Hope. Change. Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle - The Mountain Goats and Kaki King http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=153 Admittedly, this is largely unsuccessful. But whatever. Here's some songs with swing states' names in the titles of songs: Marah - "Point Breeze" (PA) Superchunk - "Florida's On Fire" (FL) The Rolling Stones - "Sweet Virginia" (VA) Randy Newman - "Dayton, Ohio -- 1903" (OH) Pinko Podcast 9-4 - Pinko Podcast 9-4-08 http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=151 Supergroups rarely work out. Egos are at play and rock stars, having notoriously tough times sharing the spotlight, typically leave the end result tunes thin and uninspired. However, the recent indie supergroup crop has been largely outstanding, probably owing to the fact that there's little to no spotlight to hog ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=150 Her? Really John, this was your veep pick; Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (population Memphis) former Mayor of an 8,000 person township, hockey mom whose "great story" is that she's a mother of five.  This pick falls in line with a troubling direction of American politics, where we want our leaders ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=149 Looking at the scene that is freak folk, it's easy to forget that there's a hell of a lot of stuff, interesting and not, that gets lumped in under the easy-to-use banner. Now understand: for convenience's sake it'd be pretty simple to tag Brightblack Morning Light one of the heady ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=148 Devendra Banhart will be credited with popularizing the "freak-folk" deal, for better or for worse, his quivering vibrato and bizarre lyrics a touchstone for lots of bedroom musicians' bad folk outfits -- which is pretty much as bad as terrible poetry (see: my high school notebooks). But good for Devendra: ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=147 Operating something like the lost Neil Young record On The Beach, David Crosby's recently rediscovered and supremely weird hippie epic If I Could Only Remember My Name is, as the title suggests, pretty out there. Crosby, never the straightest arrow of the boomer set, was a guy who did play ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=146 (Hall shown wearing his Canadian tuxedo) Daryl Hall has been throwing little parties around his home, even inviting a camera crew along to record it all.  Live from Daryl's House is a monthly webisode series where Hall invites a different musician over to tour his home and play some tunes.  But really it's ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=145 Those cocky 6 foot 5 frogs were suppose to derail Phelps hopes for 8 golds by Tuesday but balding Jason Lezak swam the greatest relay leg in history, keeping hopes alive and turning every Phelps race into must see TV. This week, Michael Phelps became Keri Strugg, a $100,000,000 ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=144 Guys, you used to be a totally decent band, but you're shrinking idea wise. Old age for post-Some Type of Monster Metallica, it seems, is reading way too much of your own press (specifically the nostalgic sort) and being content with pretending to be a cover band for the old Metallica ... http://pinkoflamingo.com/?p=143