LCD Soundsystem and Eric Wareheim Team Up for a Live Concert and Sitcom Parody

It’s got to be exhausting to be a successful band today. You can’t just be a band and make records and play shows anymore; you’ve got to become some kind of multimedia pop culture juggernaut, down to do all kinds of ads and promotions and shitty corporate team-ups and private shows for oblivious Ponzi scheming crypto nerds. You’ve got be an intellectual property more than a band, more so today than at any point in the history of pop music, and you’ve got to market and merchandise the hell out of that intellectual property. It’s got to be tiring.
Today LCD Soundsystem announced that it’s doing some kind of live show / ‘90s sitcom parody for Amazon Music, in conjunction with Eric Wareheim, that will air on Prime Video and Twitch on Dec. 22. Wareheim will write and direct a live ‘90s-style sitcom called All My Friends (complete with a Muzak-y instrumental piano version of LCD’s hit as the theme song). Wareheim will play LCD’s main man James Murphy, with Macauley Culkin, Christine Ko, Tony Cavalero, Cory Loykasek, Aparna Nancherla, Jon Daly, Rex Lee, Luenell, and a puppet playing different members and managers of the band. After the sitcom the band will play a live set, culminating in the first live performance of their 2015 Christmas single “Christmas Will Break Your Heart.”
Wareheim, of course, has been parodying the sitcom in various forms for years. Last year he co-created and starred in the sitcom parody Beef House on Adult Swim. Making fun of the Miller-Boyett house style should be second nature for him at this point. LCD Soundsystem, meanwhile, is in the midst of a sold-out 20-show residency in Brooklyn that wraps up the night before this sitcom / concert special airs. What better way to celebrate the end of a marathon of shows than with your own fake sitcom?