PIZZALAND CLOSES....AGAIN

It's hell trying to keep an all-ages venue alive; Fresno's Pizzaland has closed again and this time it may be for good. (I hope the blog I posted yesterday didn't jinx it.)

The closing of Pizzaland wasn't actually due to nerds blogging, it was financial - as always with all-ages venues. The time I was in there, the teens in attendance weren't buying jack from Pizzaland and were actually buying water at Dan's liquor and coming in with it - the same shit Pizzaland was selling. When you have cheap/broke kids as eighty percent of your customers, it's hard to stay open.

Even with all this Joe, the owner, still plans to look for another venue for hosting bands...good luck ya crazy bastard. Thursday night's Capistrano show at Pizzaland got moved to the Brown Building. Don't ask me what the hell it is, I just know its by Pelco and where planes fly around a lot.


*Thanks to Love The Captive for helping with this post!

Pizzaland and Grindcore rawness

(In the past 24 hours Pizzaland has closed their doors...again - more details to follow; so the below post doesn't mean as much now...but read it anyways mmmkaa)

Coming this Thursday night to Fresno's Pizzaland Brown Building , it's the return...return of Morgan Hill's Capistrano - experimental/grindcore/metal at its finest.

Get fired up for their Thursday show at Pizzaland Brown Building by listening to Capistrano members Dylan (guitar/vocals) and JP (bass) being interviewed by Dorktown (again eh); download this file: pizzalandinterview.mp3. There's a special appearance by Turtle from Love The Captive. Also, more experimental metal is hitting (the Brown Building maybe) July 17th with Said The Gun To The Girl.

To those unaware, Pizzaland isn't your typical venue to see a show. It is definitely an ALL ages place. I know that "all ages" translates to mostly teens in a sparse venue, but it's not exclusively teens. You can even get a beer if you're of age. The place can get a bit...um...sweaty; and there really isn't a traditional stage for the band but you can stand right with the boys in the band as they play - that's its charm and part of the experience of seeing up-and-comers trying to entertain.

Pizzaland is raw. But that's what an all ages place should be. Go check out Capistrano Thursday night and feel what I mean.

EXPECT THIS THURSDAY NIGHT, BITCHES:
Capistrano -

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Brown Building

Fresno. Friday. Pizzaland. You. Capistrano.

Do you fall under the category of all age? SWEET! Then go check this Metal-Grind-BadassCore band: CAPISTRANO at Pizzaland Friday.

PLAY 'EM:
Capistrano - Can I Help You Find Something?

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Dorktown's Fresno weekend

Sunday may be all about this dork's mom, but no moms will be around Friday and Saturday motherfuckers ... eewww, maybe I shouldn't use motherfucker during Mothers Day Weekend.

Friday night, we plan to be at the Starline to see Capistrano and find out what this "gridcore" scene is all about

**UPDATE: CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO CLIP I MADE LAST NIGHT FROM CAPISRANO'S SET:Capistrano video

Then, Saturday, it's off to "The Chuck" to get mildly buzzed at Sudz (it's hard to get drunk when you wait in long lines to get only 10 shots of beer).

And Sunday? Well duuuuhh, it's all about moms.

Whatcha doin' this weekend?



Capistrano video