Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Video: The Latest from SNL's The Lonely Island

The Bay is famous for it's music, but it's also famous for the humor and gregarious nature of it's musicians. From Sly Stone to Mac Dre and MC Hammer to E-40, we spit game just a little bit different. Case in point is the Berkeley-bred SNL saviors known collectively as The Lonely Island. Their debut album Incredibad, was actually incredibly good. So good in fact that they were recently nominated for a Grammy on the strength of "On a Boat," their hit collaboration with T-Pain (Can you say 43 million views?).

I believe they will be putting out a video for every song on the Incredibad, which means that a video with E-40 as Santana is also forthcoming!! If the end of that last sentence confused you a bit, allow me to clarify. On the track "Santana DVX," E-40 imitates Carlos Santana while repping for a fictitious brand of champagne called Santana DVX. It sounds a bit strange, and it surely is, but it's also four kinds of awesome. So keep your eyes peeled folks!

For now, check out a couple of the latest cuts Andy, Jorma and Akiva have unleashed. The first video is for "Boombox," a disturbingly funny record on Incredibad featuring Julian Casablancas of The Strokes. The second is a live rendition of "Lazy Sunday" with Chris Parnell on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." If you remember, it was this Digital Short that first put Andy and his boys on the national map.

So rock out with their latest musical raucousness and then take a look back at some of 38thNotes's past TLI posts. If you need me, I'll be here pondering ways to avoid ever having a hair-do moderately comparable to that of Andy Samburg. His every day do (seen in 2nd video) looks like a Revolution-era Tory wig with a mean case of stoner bed-head. But I digress.... Enjoi the show kids.


And just in case you're interested, a movie helmed by the crew's Jorma Taccone just premiered at SXSW and got a great review. Check the trailer here.

3 comments:

AssertiveWit said...

I love these guys because they're like those two friends everyone has that aren't like standup comedian funny but more like just them being their dumb ass selves and it breeds comedy. I imagine being friends with them is like living in a Frat Pack movie.

Coolhand Luke said...

Exactly!! I could totally see hanging out with these dudes. In fact, I'll pencil it into my 2 year plan. THat is all.

josh said...

that was hilarious

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