“Bulletproof” (La Roux cover)

Congratulations to La Roux for winning the “Best Dance Album” Grammy last night! I haven’t actually heard any of the other albums against which the duo was competing, but I’m confident that the Academy made a good choice. I’ve listened to La Roux so much over the last year.

A couple of weeks ago, I teamed up with Jenna Eyrich and Dalton Blanco to record a cover of the song “Bulletproof.” I decided that today was a good day to put our cover on the Internet.

Download Fridate: “Bulletproof” (La Roux Cover)

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“So Gone, Like You” by Nima and Geoff

On Monday, I recorded a song with my friend Nima. Nima’s a creative guy, and he’s in a band called So Many Wizards. Anyway, we made this jam pretty quickly based on an idea that Nima had. He sings and plays guitar, and I provide all of the “backing band” elements:

Download Nima and Geoff: “So Gone, Like You”

Filed under: Human Interest, mp3, big whup, geoff geis, mp3, nima kazerouni, pizza!, so many wizards

Toe Jam

I’m in a new band called Toe Jam. We had our first practice last night, and it was pretty killer. Check it out:

Saturday, October 2
Sean Carnage and Kyle Mabson present:

High Castle
Zulus
NASA Space Universe
Toe Jam

Starts 9:30pm / $5 / all-ages

Pehrspace—325 Glendale Blvd., in Historic Filipinotown

Toe Jam, the world’s first Free Grunge band, features members of Pizza!, XBXRX, Big Whup, Violence and Negativity, Foot Village, Cockwind and Essay.

Filed under: Events, big whup, cockwind, essay, foot village, pehrspace, pizza!, sean carnage, toe jam, violence and negativity, xbxrx

in LA Record: Review of “Love Songs for When You Leave Me” by So Many Wizards

I recently wrote a review for LA Record of So Many Wizards’ excellent new EP Love Songs for When You Leave Me.  It can be read here.

So Many Wizards will be joining my bands Big Whup and Pizza! at Big Whup’s 7″ Release Extravaganza Party at the Smell on Saturday. Please don’t miss this one, for your own sake.

Filed under: Reviews, big whup, la record, love songs for When You Leave Me, pizza!, so many wizards, the smell

Flyer Collection

I have collected the flyers that I’ve made over the years for Pizza!, Big Whup, and my own solo shows. I put them onto Flickr. You can check out the set here. This is one of my favorite flyers from the collection. It’s from last year, not this year! This year basically the same lineup is playing on May 1 at the Smell, except with 60 Watt Kid and So Many Wizards instead of My Pet Saddle and the Studiofix:

You can click on it to go to the Flickr set.

Filed under: Art, Esoteria, big whup, flickr, flyers, geoff geis, pizza!

Let the good times roll?

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Haiti Benefit @ the Echoplex on Friday

Pizza! 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 guest appearances by Uli and Morgan Gee of Big Whup . Cost of admission is $10.

We are scheduled to appear at 7:15. Doors at 7:00.

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!

Filed under: Events, adanowsky, big whup, corridor, earthquake, echoplex, haiti, jenny o., la ladies choir, manimal, nico vega, pizza!, soko

Upcoming shows: Pizza! and Big Whup

Today I will play my first show of the new year, a solo joint at Tribal Cafe in Echo Park. It’s free, so long as you buy something from the cafe. Here is the flier:

This show marks the beginning of a new string of shows, one that will probably be pretty consistent until Christmas. That’s how I like it (I suppose). Here are the upcoming shows for Pizza! and Big Whup. There will certainly be more shows added to these lists (there are a couple of pending dates for Big Whup already):

Pizza!

Big Whup:

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Download the LA Record Holiday Mixtape!

Both Pizza! and Lil’ Whup (Lil’ Whup is a smaller version of Big Whup) are featured on LA Record’s new holiday mixtape. Check out the whole thing on LARecord.com to get our tracks as well as tracks by Drew Denny (of Big Whup), 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, I made the individual songs available for download here. Click on the files to hear them and then save them to your computer.

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

Lil’ Whup featuring Voice on Tape – Christ is Born!

Enjoy! Happy Christmas.

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Do they know it’s Christmas?

I made some Blingees today for my bands.

Big Whup:

Pizza!:

Hot Topic:

Filed under: Esoteria, big whup, blingee, christmas, hot topic, pizza!