As American As... Spoon

So I had the pleasure of spending my Independence Day in downtown Detroit at Comerica CityFest, complete with a free headlining concert in the evening by Austin, TX indie-rockers Spoon. While the show was pretty decent (despite their omission of “The Underdog”—I kept waiting for a horn section to emerge from backstage to no avail), there was really only one nagging thought that stayed in my mind the whole time:

Spoon frontman Britt Daniel

Wilco Guitar God Nels Cline
Now tell me the former doesn’t look like the overly cocky bastard son of the latter.

Anyhow, here’s the studio version of what I thought was one of the more solid numbers from their live set, off the upcoming "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" (which doubles as a ridiculously fun concert chant).

Spoon—Black Like Me

And up at MySpace, the pretty awesome video for the previously posted Jon Brion produced masterpiece “The Underdog”: