Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg
Since Ariel Pink just played two divisive shows in New York and Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed about a month ago, we thought we’d bring those two seemingly unrelated events together with a special WFMU performance from 2008. The half-hour set from Pink’s Haunted Graffiti band happens to feature the closest he gets to political commentary: the sprawling “Witchhunt Suite For WWIII,” which makes some not-so-subtle references to the hunt for Bin Laden in its intro. Download/stream it all after the jump, and be sure to check out a track-by-track breakdown of Pink’s Before Today album here…