Start brewing up your artisan celery cocktails, and stock up on all things pickled: Season 4 of"Portlandia" is on the way. Co-creators, co-writers and co-stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein will once again be portraying a variety of Portlanders, and as always, they'll be joined by an impressive, eclectic list of guest stars.
Which guest stars, you ask? These guest stars: Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Vanessa Bayer ("Saturday Night Live"), Kirsten Dunst ("Melancholia," "Spider-Man"), Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), singer-songwriter k.d. lang (who lives in Portland), Duff McKagan (Gun N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Silas Weir Mitchell(Monroe, on the filmed-in-Portland "Grimm"), Michael Nesmith (The Monkees), Mark Proksch ("The Office"), Maya Rudolph ("The Way, Way Back," "Bridesmaids"), columnist Dan Savage, Nick Swardson ("Reno 911!"), jazz duo Tuck and Patti, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and Olivia Wilde ("HER," "House").
We'll also see Paul Allen, that comedy master, and members of the Portland Trail Blazers turning up.
Some famiiar "Portlandia" faces return, too, such as Kyle MacLachlan (aka Portland's Mayor), Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Steve Buscemi, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), Kumail Nanjiani, Jason Sudeikis (the cult leader of the farm where Colin came from way back in Season 1), and director Gus Van Sant.
Look for Armisen, Brownstein and co-creator, co-writer and director Jonathan Krisel to touch on such topics as love of bacon and the crush of technology, along with new characters including eco-terrorists "Benji and Dakota," storytellers "Robert and Grabriella," and restaurant workers "Troy and Lillian."
The new series of 10 episodes kicks off on IFC, Thursday, Feb. 27.
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