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:

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

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.

Pizza! at Part Time Punks on Sunday, October 18 – Also new video and press stuff.

Hello:

To celebrate our new and fancy loving friendship with Manimal Vinyl, who just put out some of our music digitally, we are playing at PART TIME PUNKS on Sunday, October 18.

It takes place at THE ECHO, 1822 Sunset Blvd. Playing with is Oakland’s Bare Wires. They seem pretty radical.

Things are going to be pretty excellent. Tyler bought a bunch of new drum stuff, so the percussion at the show ought to be pretty bombastic. He’s put a lot of work into the sound. Also – ALEX IS BACK!!! We played without him at Country Pizza! and at the Manimal Festival. While we had fun both times, he was sorely missed. But now he’s here!!! And with him, we’ll be playing the hits as well as new stuff that we’re recording for our next album.

This has been a pretty good week for Pizza! We had a blast at the Manimal Festival in Joshua Tree. LA Record posted a video of us playing “Big Mammoth Skull” there. Honestly, though, we had far more fun hanging out after our show than we did actually playing. Swoon magazine posted a video that captures the spirit of the fest. It seems like their trip was a little bit harsher than ours, though. All in all, a very weird and fantastic weekend. I think we’re all very excited about being in the company of the musicians we saw last weekend. We have a lot to learn from them.

We got mentioned on a few blogs and the like this week, thanks to Manimal and our friend Tim. The Deli LA has a voting thing – if you have a moment, maybe vote for us as their artist of the month? It’s always nice to be considered for stuff like that.

Manimal Festival – This Weekend in Joshua Tree!

We are very excited to be participating in this weekend’s Manimal Fest at Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown in Joshua Tree. It is going to be such a fun-in-the-sun blast that we might not even remember it when it’s done. Unfortunately no Alex for this show, but audience-members will get to hear a sneak preview of all of his bass and keyboard parts on the new album we’re making! YAY!

RSVP on Facebook, buy tickets on manimalvinyl.com or at the door.

This event is sponsored by KCRW and LA Record.

Country Pizza!

Country Pizza! was a one-night-only excursion into the sounds of country-western music, as requested by Elaine Layabout for her special September 11th edition of the Hella Hipster Hoedown. We played that show with a modified lineup – Alex is in Europe, so Rand switched to bass. In addition to guitar, Duncan played some slide. We were also fortunate to be joined by our great friends Caitlin Craggs, Chloe Thum, and Big Whup’s Morgan Gerstmar.

It was great fun. We really appreciate that Elaine asked us to do it and had confidence in our country-making skills. Below is a Youtube video of one of the originals we played, called “the Lonesome Part,” and here is a link to a flickr album posted by Slings (who also played that night) with pictures from the whole event.

 

Manimal Vinyl releasing Pizza! compilation on October 5 – One last week to download our discography for free!

Pizza! is happy to announce that Manimal Vinyl will be releasing our second LP in 2010. In order to generate interest for our upcoming release, on October 5th Manimal will release a digital-only compilation of some of our best material. The release will include fifteen remastered favorites, representing all of our official releases and including a couple of other goodies.

Up until this point, everything that we’ve released has been free. Because we will now be charging for our music, we must remove the songs that will be included in the compilation from this website. While we know that this is a necessary step, it is not one that we take lightly. Thus, before we take them down we want to make sure that we give everyone one last chance to download everything for free. The songs will remain on this website, therefore, for another week. On Monday, September 21, the tracks will be removed.

Click here to download everything while it’s not too late!

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded our music from this site!

In other news, Pizza! will be opening Manimal Festival 2009 on October 3rd at Pioneertown in Joshua Tree. The event is sponsored by KCRW and LA Record, and it is full of excellent acts. We’re incredibly excited to be playing on the same day as Jonesin’, We Are the World, Rainbow Arabia, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Tickets are $30 from http://www.manimalvinyl.com.

Album art and tracklist for “Bogus Rimshots From the Fourth,” available for purchase on iTunes starting October 5:

01. Bloo Moob 02. Griffith Park Fire 03. Iron Fart 04. (We be @ She) Summer Spot 05. Mammoth Skull 06. Rims Patrone 07. Repress Yourself! 08. the Future? 09. Be a Man 10. Dinoboticus 11. Gay “Hotel California” 12. Houses 13. Christmas is Air (All around us) 14. Bird-Dreams 15. Bogus Rimshots from the Fourth

“Griffith Park Fire” on Big Whup Industries Compilation

Our song “Griffith Park Fire” will be included on “What is Happening…,” a compilation of fine local music and the first release by Big Whup Industries. The compilation also includes music by Big Whup (featuring members of Pizza!) and Dnonkong (also a member of Pizza!). So we’re obviously quite excited about it!

Free copies of the 23-track compilation will be available at the release party at the Smell this Saturday, Sept 19th. There will also be live performances that night by Big Whup, So Many Wizards, Voice on Tape, Nicole Kidman and the illustrious American Gil & the Major Dudes. Unfortunately it’s American Gil’s final show.

Go to the Big Whup Industries website for more information on the compilation.