Do you ever think about what former child star Macaulay Culkin is up too? No, well i’m gonna tell you anyway. Macaulay Culkin has formed a new band called Pizza Underground, and here’s a lil taste. Pizza Underground is basically a tribute band to Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and they have a medley of songs such as “Papa John Says”, “Im Waiting for Delivery Man”, and “Take a Bite of the Wild Slice”. What Do you think of Macaulay’s new project?
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The Guardian Reports,
“Macaulay Culkin has formed a pizza-related Velvet Underground tribute band.
Billed as Pizza Underground, the group brings together Culkin and four musicians from New York’s anti-folk scene: Matt Colbourn, Phoebe Kreutz, Deenah Vollmer and Austin Kilham. Some 23 years after he starred in Home Alone, Culkin is credited with “percussion/kazoo/vocals”.
Last week, the band released their debut: a demo tape featuring treasures such as I’m Waiting for Delivery Man and All the Pizza Parties. One highlight is the melancholy ballad Cheese Days, a take on These Days. “Cheese days,” they sing, in tremulous strains. “I don’t do too much toppings these days / [These] days I seem to order cheese, and don’t say please, and then I walk away.” Look out for Culkin’s kazoo solo on Take a Bite of the Wild Slice.
Formed in February 2012, the Pizza Underground have performed recent gigs at Comic Arts Brooklyn and in early November, for a Lou Reed tribute show at anti-folk landmark the Sidewalk Cafe. Culkin’s prior musical resume consists of cameos in music videos, including work with anti-folk icon Adam Green. From Green it is only a small hop to Kreutz, described by the New Yorker as “kingpin of the joke-folk genre”.
The Pizza Underground’s demo was recorded “live at Macaulay Culkin’s house” in November 2013. No album has yet been promised.”
