Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers are bringing the show Documentary Now! to IFC. It’s a series of faux documentaries, and the final, hour-long episode of the season is dedicated to the Blue Jean Committee, a ‘70s soft rock band whose lead members look suspiciously like Armisen and Hader. However, the guys are really pushing the whole Blue Jean Committee thing in order to try and sell the show, and the results are delightful.
For starters, when Hader was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday, the show ended with the Blue Jean Committee playing their hit song “Catalina Breeze.” It’s a pretty spot-on parody of the soft rock music of the time: Silly enough to be funny, but still plausible as a soft rock song. If you came across it on the radio between songs by Seals & Croft and Air Supply, it wouldn’t stand out.
The promotion doesn’t end there, though. A full Catalina Breeze EP is being released by Drag City on Nov. 20. It features seven full songs, including, presumably, their hit titular single. This is reminiscent of another recent project wherein Armisen released 7″ singles featuring some of the fake bands he concocted while on Saturday Night Live.
You can tune into Documentary Now! to hear the full story of the Blue Jean Committee. Maybe they will let us know what sort of time portal they came through in order to emerge in the year 2015 looking so young. And why they like denim so much.
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(Via Pitchfork)
