Fred Armisen releases 4-track EP as fake punk band

Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live’s most outspoken punk, has released a four-track EP by one of the show’s fake punk bands.

Armisen’s punk credentials are not to be challenged, just see any of the numerous Sex Pistols/Clash parodies he’s frontlined, his overtly alternative music-oriented Portlandia TV series, this one-man show inside of a record store, or simply this photograph.

Most recently however, in a sketch which served as a sort of punky tribute to the late Margaret Thatcher, Armisen pulled out his best Johnny Rotten impression as the archetypical frontman of the ‘fake’ punk band ‘Ian Rubbish and the Bizzaros.’

Well it looks like, in very Spinal Tap-ish fashion, this ‘fake’ punk band has released a 4-song EP, as Spin reports, blurring the line between art, comedy, and reality.

If you go to the band’s website, you’ll find download links to the songs which first appeared on a SNL sketch from a few weeks back, as well a pretty convincing band promo. The EP’s artwork is as below.