Working For The Weekday: GWAR sacrifices Sarah Sherman, Mr. Met loves Geese

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Working For The Weekday highlights some of the top music stories from the previous weekend. Today, we’re covering Miss Piggy’s arrest in Los Angeles, Mac DeMarco’s secret album, Geese’s biggest fan, and more.

Sabrina Carpenter arrests Miss Piggy at tour finale

14 months later, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet Tour has come to an end, capped off by an impressive and exciting run of Los Angeles shows at Crypto.com Arena. At every show, Carpenter arrests somebody in the audience for “being too hot.” Joe Keery, Anne Hathaway, Clairo, and Marcello Hernandez have all gotten the treatment. On Sunday night, Miss Piggy had the pink fuzzy cuffs put on her. “You’re the only celebrity that makes me nervous to be around,” Carpenter told the Muppets starlet. Piggy’s security guard, Bobo The Bear, was present to perform the arrest. There couldn’t have been a better guest for Carpenter’s final show, as the Man’s Best Friend phenom’s next gig is starring and co-executive producing Seth Rogen’s The Muppet Show revival for Disney+.

GWAR sacrifices Sarah Sherman

I’m a big Sarah Sherman fan, as evidenced by this long profile I wrote about her last year. The SNL star is a body-horror savant, which makes her sense of humor a perfect compliment to the gross-out, blood-thirsty theatrics of GWAR. The band’s shows can get pretty nasty, and at their NYC show over the weekend they decided to sacrifice a living person. Sherman, of course, answered the call and had a sword slashed across her neck. Fake blood spewed everywhere, coating fans in the first few rows. Also worth noting: GWAR is donating an autographed bidet to John Oliver’s Public Media Bridge Fund benefit auction. Nothing goes together better than a few bloody John Hancocks and a wet asshole.

@clownin_style Sarah Sherman from SNL got sacrificed by GWAR! #GWAR ♬ original sound – Clownin_style

Donald Glover reveals he suffered a stroke

Last year, Donald Glover postponed a bunch of dates from his Bando Stone & The New World tour due to a health emergency that required surgery and an indeterminate amount of recovery time. While taking the stage as Childish Gambino at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival Saturday night, the 40-year-old Glover revealed that he suffered a stroke and needed heart surgery. He told the crowd (at the 20-minute mark in the video below):

“I couldn’t really see well, so when we went to Houston I went to the hospital and the doctor was like, ‘You had a stroke. And the first thing I thought was like, ‘Oh, here I am still copying Jamie Foxx…’ That’s really, like, the second thing. The first thing was like, ‘I’m letting everybody down.’ I know that’s not true. But I’d broken my foot, I always promised Ireland I’m gonna be there, and I still haven’t been. And they found a hole in my heart. So I had this surgery, and then I had to have another surgery. So, you know, they say everybody has two lives—and the second life starts when you realize you have one. You got one life, guys… You should be living your life how you want, because [then] it can only get better.”

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Mr. Met attends Geese concert

If you didn’t already know, we really loved the new Geese record, Getting Killed. You know who else is a fan? The wise and wonderful Mr. Met, New York’s one and only baseball mascot. The band’s recent tour concluded this weekend with two sold-out shows at the Brooklyn Paramount, where they dedicated “Trinidad” to Waylon Jennings. Pretty cool stuff. Fuck the Yankees!

Mac DeMarco gives away “secret album” in Europe

At this point, Mac DeMarco doesn’t give a damn about industry conventions. And he’s certainly earned the freedom, having released two pretty great indie-rock records (2, Salad Days) and one LP that is maybe the most impressive example of a 2010s wild child maturing into a seasoned pro (This Old Dog). He’s famous enough to sell tickets and press records, and he’s even got a label of his own, which has released good recent titles from Daryl Johns and Vicky Farewell. Two years ago he made an instrumental album in hotel rooms across the country. He dumped a 9-hour vault of half-assed ditties and unfinished demos on streaming, and shared the recent Guitar, his most fundamental project yet.

On his current European tour, DeMarco has been handing out burnt CDs of a new album, Dog On the Rock, which, by all other accounts, has no scheduled release date. Someone on Reddit revealed that they found the CD taped to the barricade at a Dublin show. DeMarco has mentioned this material before, recently at a Paris festival: “I actually do have a bunch of recordings that I made in between these two tours, and I went to the print shop to make little album sleeves of that yesterday,” DeMarco said. “So maybe there will be another secret album, but one that you can hear this time.” Some brave soldier has already uploaded the 40-minute album to YouTube, and it’s mostly stripped down guitar phrasings and humming—so, exactly what Guitar was but looser. DeMarco’s label shared some new music on their Instagram story today. Will we ever get a proper release of Dog On the Rock? Who can say. That’s between DeMarco and the birds to decide.

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