--- description: Fred and Carrie of 'Portlandia' unite onstage in New York City title: Watch Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney Cover 'Rock Lobster' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney Cover the B-52s' 'Rock Lobster' by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 14, 2015 10:20 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 14, 2015 10:20 PM CUT The crowd at Sleater-Kinney’s Sunday night show in New York City enjoyed a surprise appearance from Fred Armisen, who came out to help the band perform “Rock Lobster” by the B-52s. The appearance probably wasn’t a _huge_ surprise to fans, since Armisen is a very close friend of Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein. The duo also co-created the popular sketch show _Portlandia. (_Armisen is a musician, too, and leads the house band on _Late Night with Seth Meyers._) Armisen rocked out on the cowbell and did an impressive amount of jumping and dancing during the seven-minute song. People were _very_ excited, as you’ll note from the screams and cheers and the woman shouting, “Oh my God! This is so awesome!” _Read next:_ [_Connie Britton, Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman Sing Along in Sleater-Kinney’s New Video_](http://time.com/3669573/sleater-kinney-no-cities-to-love-music-video/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/"},"headline":"Watch Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney Cover the B-52s' 'Rock Lobster'","datePublished":"2015-12-14T22:20:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:43.389Z","description":"Fred and Carrie of 'Portlandia' unite onstage in New York City","url":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/","name":"Watch Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney Cover the B-52s' 'Rock Lobster'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Giorgio Moroder Describes the Perfect Pop Dance Song","description":"At the age of 74, electronic music producer Giorgio Moroder is releasing his first album in three decades.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/J4PWndMR/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-06T22:07:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J4PWndMR.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4148366/sleater-kinney-fred-armisen-rock-lobster/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```