Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin’s band, the Pizza Underground, will tease your taste buds while singing Velvet Underground covers, but with—you guessed it—pizza lyrics! It’s like a dream (if you fell asleep wasted while eating pizza and listening to Velvet Underground).
Drummer Deenah Vollmer (pictured second from right) of the five-piece comedy-rock band from NYC, whose most famous member is Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, sat down with us ahead of their NYC variety show at Le Poisson Rouge to talk all things ’za.
First things first: best slice in New York City?
Joe’s on Carmine Street! It’s our fave.
Someone once said, “Sex is like pizza; it ain’t always good, but it’s never bad.” Is there such a thing as bad pizza?
It’s all up to individual taste. If you can nail a good plain slice, that’s pretty much the tops for us. Maybe not plain sex necessarily.
Is a calzone a pizza?
No. It’s pizza-adjacent.
Settle this age-old argument for our readers: Is Chicago deep-dish pizza actually pizza, or is it basically a cake?
Debates about deep dish have made it to the Supreme Court, or so we hear…but thin crust all the way.
There’s five of you in the band. When you order a pizza, what goes on it? How do you decide?
If you are insisting on us naming a topping, then pepperoni is the way to go.
Finally, what should we be looking for in a pizza?
Pizza is something that’s with you your whole life, something that you return to again and again on your journey. There’s no “acquired taste” period with pizza, nor is there a time when you stop considering it an option. It will inevitably remind you of early birthdays and late college nights, but unlike other, strictly nostalgic sensations, pizza occupies a genuine place in the present.