Welcome

This is the World Wide Website of Pizza!, a five-piece pop band from Los Angeles, California. This site features a lot of cool stuff from the group, including a place to buy their music, transcribed lyrics, and memorabilia. The front page of the website also has up-to-date information about the group, as well as special mp3s and videos. You shouldn’t have to try very hard to find something enjoyable here.

This is what the boys look like:

Haitian Earthquake Benefit Show – Friday, January 22

Hey everybody:

We just added a very special show to our schedule for this Friday. Presented by Manimal Records, it is a fundraiser to provide relief to victims of the Haitian earthquake. It takes place at the Echoplex, and it features a very impressive lineup of musicians including Nico Vega, Adanowsky, Jenny O., Soko, Corridor, and the LA Ladies’ Choir. Pizza!’s performance will also feature a guest appearance by Morgan Gee of Big Whup. Cost of admission is $10.

Help us spread the word – RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends.

We’re still playing the Smell on Sunday, and it’s still going to be awesome!

January 24: Pizza! at the Smell

We’re playing the Smell on Sunday, January 24th. It’s our last show for a little while. Come see us!

Presented by Ports o’ Call. With John Thill (back from Napa), Aristides (Final show), I.E., Musical Charis (Sacramento).

Pizza! on Manimal David Bowie compilation

Manimal has announced the tracks that will be included on this year’s David Bowie compilation, the profits from which will be donated to War Child UK. It will feature our version of “Modern Love.” We’re excited about this one.

1. EXITMUSIC “Space Oddity”
2. VIVIAN GIRLS “John, I’m Only Dancing”
3. MEGAPUSS (Devendra Banhart) “Sound + Vision” (en espanol)
4. CARLA BRUNI “Absolute Beginners”
5. LIGHTS “World Falls Down”
6. VOICESVOICES “Heroes”
7. DURAN DURAN “Boys Keep Swinging”
8. MGMT “tba”
9. CHAIRLIFT “Always Crashing in the Same Car”
10. ASKA w/ MOON & MOON “African Night Flight”
11. A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS “Suffragette City”
12. POLYAMOROUS AFFAIR “Theme From Cat People”
13. KEREN ANN “Life on Mars”
14. SWAHILI BLONDE (feat. John Frusciante) “Red Money”
15. MARCO BENEVENTO “Art Decade”
16. CORRIDOR “Be My Wife”
17. AQUASERGE “The Supermen”
18. WARPAINT “Ashes to Ashes”
19. RAINBOW^ARABIA “Quicksand”
20. WE ARE THE WORLD “Afraid of Americans”
21. LACO$TE “Within You”
22. ARIANA DELAWARI “Ziggy Stardust”
23. PIZZA! “Modern Love”
24. ST CLAIR BOARD “Secret Life of Arabia”
25. CAROLINE WEEKS “Starman”
26. AMANDA JO WILLIAMS “The Man Who Sold the World”
27. MICK KARN “Ashes to Ashes”
28. SOULWAX “tba”

Krystmas is 120 BPM Jamaica (All Around Us)

Pizza! is featured on LA Record’s new holiday mixtape. Check out the whole thing on LARecord.com to get our track as well as tracks by Lil’ Whup featuring Voice on Tape, Drew Denny, Moses Campbell, the Pity Party, Amanda Jo Williams, and others! Thanks to LA Record for including us on this awesome compilation!

Since the mixtape is in podcast form, we made our song available for individual download here. Click on the file name to hear it and then save it to your computer.

Pizza! – Krystmas is 120 BPM Jamaica (All Around Us)

Enjoy! Happy Christmas.

Do they know it’s Christmas?

Tonight at Pehrspace!

RSVP to the Event on Facebook!

Sean Carnage presents…

Pizza!
Signals (ex-Mae Shi)
GULL
Gone to Croatoan

Pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd, in Echo Park
$5, All Ages, 10 PM, BYOB

It will be epic!

Flyer by Athena, http://www.sundaykat.tk

Buy our new digital compilation from iTunes and Amazon.com

Note: Due to an issue that is outside of our control, this release is currently listed as “not available” on Amazon and iTunes. It should be purchasable again soon after the beginning of 2010.

Manimal Vinyl presents “Bogus Rimshots from the Fourth,” a schizophrenic fifteen-track collection that puts together some of Pizza’s best work sofar.

You can purchase it from iTunes for $9.99 by clicking here. It is also available from Amazon.com for only $8.99.

From boomkat:

“Manimal’s relentless outpouring of LA-spawned new bands continues with its new release from Pizza!, a quintet whose songtitles include ‘Gay “Hotel California”‘ and ‘Iron Fart’. Despite outwardly appearing to be horrendously juvenile, Pizza! are capable of some great psych/synth pop moments. ‘Houses’ is a feel good ditty to be reckoned with, and ‘Christmas Is Air (All Around Us)’ is a wholly commendable (un)festive novelty. Elsewhere, ‘Bird Dreams’ is a nice piece of tuneful, yet surreal experimentation, and ‘(We Be @ She) Summer Spot’ is a neat fusion of jazzy horn solos and clipping electronic breaks. The album feels very fragmented, and at no point do you feel there was ever a unifying vision intended, but that scatterbrained logic translates nicely, and you truly never know what’s coming next.”

Upcoming Pizza! shows – Oakland and Spaceland (FREE!)

Hey everyone!

Thanks to all who came to our Part Time Punks on Sunday; it was unbelievably fun and it felt really special to have all of you there. A really great night!

First – We’re going to Oakland!

Thursday, Oct 29. Geoff solo show at Mama Buzz Cafe. 2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.
Friday, Oct 30. Pizza! at Ghost Town Gallery. 2519 San Pablo Ave, Oakland.
with Religious Girls, Pierre le Robot, Jonesin’, Grand Lake, Broken Figures, Mio Min Mio, Kid Infinity and a Super Secret Headliner. Get tickets from Westerly Connoisseur.

Then we get back to LA!

Sunday, Nov. 1. Pizza! at Spaceland. 1717 Silverlake Blvd, Los Angeles. FREE SHOW!
with So Many Wizards, Fort Wife (f/ Avi Buffalo), and Old Blood.

Pizza! and Weave! at Part Time Punks, this Sunday!

This Sunday, Oct 18:

Please join Pizza! and Weave! at Part Time Punks this Sunday, to celebrate the release of Pizza!’s digital compilation “Bogus Rimshots from the Fourth,” out now from Manimal Vinyl.

We are extraordinarily excited to play our first show at the Echo in more than a year, and our first Part Time Punks in more than two years. Part Time Punks was really important to us back in our early days – as a young band starting out in Echo Park, we aspired to play the club and looked at it as a sign of neighborhood legitimacy when we landed our first night there, in October of 2006. So in short – it’s cool to play there again! And we get to play with Weave!, a new labelmate on Manimal and a band that we really like. It’s exciting, you know?

Oh – and it’s Alex’s first show with us since July! And we sound better than ever!

Part Time Punks @ the Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park.

Pizza! and LA Record, a love affair?

Some cool things from LA Record!

So it was cool when they posted a video of us last week, but now we’re feeling a bit pampered.

First off, these two pieces about the Manimal Festival are pretty special. Read Drew Denny’s review to not only see a nice paragraph about Pizza! but get probably the best narrative of the fest next to Swoon magazine’s odd video (linked in a post below). Next, check out Daiana Feuer’s cool photo essay, which has a sweet performance picture of Rand as well as a slideshow that gives quite a lot of face-time to Geoff’s tattoo.

Rand at Manimal Fest

While it’s not about Pizza!, the Record also just published Geoff’s first live review. Click here to read his impressions of Sunday’s reunion show by his favorite band next to Bruce Springsteen, the Raincoats.