Doom Flamingo, featuring Umphrey’s McGee bassist Ryan Stasik, plays St. Pete on Friday

The band's music is a bit of rock, smooth funk, and prog-rock balladry, too.

By Ray Roa on Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:12 pm

Photo by Paul Chelmis

Doom Flamingo, which plays Floridian Social in St. Petersburg, Florida on May 17, 2024.

Synthwave is an unfair tag for Doom Flamingo.

The South Carolina sextet is a festival scene favorite with a lineup that includes Umphrey’s McGee cofounder and bassist Ryan Stasik, Oukuo principal Thomas Kenney, and multi-faceted powerhouse vocalist Kanika Moore.

There are definitely synths in the stack of sounds (thanks, Ross Bogan), but Doom Flamingo can also do a mean Queen cover while shifting gears between bombastic rock, smooth funk, and prog-rock balladry, too.

Tickets to see Doom Flamingo play Floridian Social in St. Petersburg on Friday, May 17 are still available and start at $20.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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