Doom Flamingo, which plays Floridian Social in St. Petersburg, Florida on May 17, 2024. Credit: Photo by Paul Chelmis
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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This article appears in May 16-22, 2024.

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...