![]() Obviously a lot of interest in the media has to do with Macaulay Culkin resurfacing in this unexpected way. Although, we did just get invited to Fresno to play with a band called the Misshits, which is a Misfits cover band that sings about poop. There’s something about the specificity of pizza, and also about the Velvet Underground, who wrote a lot about indulgence and preference and things that come together with pizza in a really fruitful way. We sort of toyed with the Rolling Scones, but with the Rolling Stones, it seemed so general. So, we’ve got more medleys in the works.Īnd you’re sticking with Velvet Underground and pizza in your future songs? I think sometimes, even just doing the hook of the song seems like enough. You want to end the joke before it goes stale. I mean, we’re not going to stand onstage and play an hour set of individual songs anytime soon. Which is why we think of ourselves as more of an art project than a band-band. Do you actually have fully written versions of those songs? It was all inevitable, but still, it’s taking us some time to figure out exactly how far we want to take this thing. We’ve been very, very nicely offered some different shows around the country, which is exciting, and some different opportunities in Europe have popped up as well. We’re fielding a surprising amount of offers right now, trying to figure out what the best course of action is. ![]() ![]() So the idea of putting together the Velvet Underground with pizza - you just start thinking about, and all of a sudden you’re making puns and then you’re making paintings of the puns, and I don’t know where it stops! I think if you give people parameters, it’s easier for people to be creative. People that heard about us, a lot of them friends and some strangers, just sort of dug the concept. ![]() The outpouring of fan art started before then. So when did you accumulate all the amazing fan art that’s on your Tumblr? Did that start after the Buzzfeed post? We were on indefinite hiatus when Mack put that extra spice in our sauce that we needed to get going again. But Mack just joined the band a few months ago. I think it started as something that Matt and Deenah were goofing around on, and eventually I came to understand it. I want in if you need an extra member.” And the rest is history.ĭo you remember the first time you paired Velvet Underground songs with pizza lyrics? Anyway, Deenah was telling him about the band, and he said, “That sounds great. So they had a big show at Le Poisson Rouge last year, which I guess was the first time I was in a room with Mack. They do really weird reinterpretations of pop culture, mostly with paintings. But Deenah’s boyfriend, Toby Goodshank, is in an art collective with Mack called 3MB, named after Three Men and a Baby. And then we didn’t really do anything with it. Then when we got back to New York, we played a show with our friend Austin Kilham, who joined the band. This began as something that we were playing around with on tour just to pass the time on trains. It started in February 2012, when I was on tour with my husband, Matt Colbourn, and Deenah Vollmer, the pizza box player. So what was the genesis of the Pizza Underground? Vulture spoke with glockenspiel player and vocalist Phoebe Kreutz about the band’s origins, what they have planned for the future, and whether there’s a full-length version of “Pizza Day.” They were introduced to Culkin through a mutual friend, and in November, the whole band went to his house to record a medley of songs bearing the titles “I’m Waiting for the Delivery Man,” “All the Pizza Parties,” and “I’m Beginning to See the Slice.” (You can download the MP3 here.) This past weekend, Buzzfeed put the Pizza Underground on its front page, and the members of this jokey side project are now weighing offers to perform their saucy tunes around the world. The Pizza Underground is the brainchild of musicians Phoebe Kreutz, Matt Colbourn, and Deenah Vollmer, all veterans of the East Village anti-folk scene. If you’ve been on social media lately, you may have heard what Macaulay Culkin is up to these days: He’s in a band that plays pizza-themed cover versions of Velvet Underground songs.
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