Devo performed a career-spanningset at the Burger Boogaloo last night in Oakland where they were joined by Fred Armisen. “He brought his vintage Club DEVO membership kit to rehearsals, which he purchased in the early 1980s,” the band wrote on Twitter. Watch clips of the performance and a photo of Armisen in the jumpsuit and energy dome below.
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Bob’s Burgers Music Album features St. Vincent, the National, Aziz Ansari, More
The critically-acclaimed Fox TV show, “Bob’s Burgers,” which has previously teamed up with artists including the National and Sleater-Kinney, is releasing an album through Sub Pop. The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, which is set to be out on May 12th will feature 112 short songs from the regular cast members like Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, and John Roberts. Featured guests include Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Fred Armisen, and Zach Galifianakis. The release will also include the Bob’s Buskers series where St. Vincent, the National, Stephin Merritt, and more covered Bob’s Burgers songs. Check out the full tracklist here.
Watch the National and Låpsley’s cover of “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom” below as well as cast’s performance of the track, the theme song and an unboxing video:
Watch Flaming Lips perform, play Game with Fred Armisen and Queen Latifah on “Fallon”
On last night’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” they featured a ton of music-related segments. Watch the Flaming Lips perform “The Castle” from their upcoming album Oczy Mlody, and talk about having multiple Hells Angels encounters while on tour; “Portlandia”’s Fred Armisen chat with Jimmy Fallon and read fake proverbs; the Roots do their classic reenactment of “The Bachelor” and freestyle songs about audience members; and John Legend jokily break down the lyrics of his song “All of Me” below. Wayne Coyne and Armisen played a game called “Humannequins” with Queen Latifah as well which is below too.
The Flaming Lips also appeared on “Portlandia” as two different sets of Flaming Lips.
New “Portlandia” trailer shows Danzig, drones, man-buns, astronauts, more
Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen will return to “Portlandia” January 21st on IFC. As previously announced, there will be appearances from Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips, Louis C.K., Zoe Kravitz, and Glenn Danzig, among numerous others on the new season.
A new trailer for the new season has surfaced today, showing the antics that arrive: drones removing man-buns, portals to other dimensions, Brownstein painting Armisen’s character in the buff, and more. There is a brief glimpse of Danzig’s appearance at around the :48 mark. Watch it here via Vulture.
Bill Hader and Fred Armisen to “reunite” as Blue Jean Committee and release an EP
Fred Armisen and Bill Hader have been long been walking the line with comedy and music, with Armisen even releasing a few parody tracks they had wrote on SNL over the years. There’s plenty of more to come now.
Documentary Now! is the new IFC series from Armisen, Hader, and Seth Meyers that parodies documentary styles and the upcoming final part of the season will have a Behind The Music-esque style. It will follow the Blue Jean Committee a band that originally came from SNL and is named Gentle & Soft: The Story Of The Blue Jean Committee. In a tie-in, Drag City will be releasing the band’s “best” material on a Catalina Breeze EP.
Pre-order the Catalina Breeze EP here. It will be out on November 11th.
Sleater-Kinney premieres star-studded music video for “No Cities to Love
Rock band, Sleater-Kinney recently released the video for the song, “No Cities to Love,” which is the title track on their upcoming album.
The video has an array of celebrities singing the song before the actual band takes it away themselves. Among those who were featured were Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman, Gerard Way, Connie Britton, Miranda July, Fred Armisen, J Mascis, Vanessa Bayer, Ellen Page, Natasha Lyonne, and more. Watch the video here.
The album, No Cities to Love, is expected to come out internationally on January 19 and in the U.S. on January 20.
St. Vincent Serving as Bandleader on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Next week, on Monday August 11th and Tuesday August 12th, Annie Clark, St. Vincent, will be leading the house band for late night, the 8G Band. She will be the replacing Fred Armisen those two days as he films the highly-anticipated fifth season of Portlandia.
Even though the 8G band has had a variety of guest musicians joining the band, the band was only ever lead by Armisen. However, knowing how St. Vincent has been able to impress crowds, including a sometimes judgmental Saturday Night Live crowd.
Earlier this year, St. Vincent took a short performance as the front woman of Nirvana during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction.
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