No matter how hard I try, some days I just can’t concentrate long enough to do my job. So while I should be writing about all the awesome new music happening in town this weekend, all I am doing is just listening to this Mountain Goats song again and again.

MP3: Mountain Goats - Pinklon

It’s from their Daytrotter (again!) session at SXSW, and it’s an unreleased gem of a song, in honor of pink-trunked heavyweight boxer Pinklon Thomas. This isn’t John Darnielle’s first ode to the sweet science, he penned an article about Sonny Liston for this very paper. That article was far more successful than that time we hired Tommy “Tommy Gunn” Morrison to write about PDX Pop Now!. That guy doesn’t know a darn thing about local music.