Pizza Pals is our regular video series featuring music & pizza aficionado Colin Atrophy Hagendorf, better known as the Slice Harvester , interviewing the most cutting-edge musicians in his favorite pizzerias.

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This week on Pizza Pals, Colin sits down at Best Pizza in Williamsburg with what he calls “the toughest, most outspoken, badass, politically vehement and urgent punk band in America” Downtown Boys’ singer Victoria Ruiz. The New Yorker called her “committed to left-wing human rights” for her work in the public defender’s office, her bilingual singing, and communist-leaning album titles.

Over slices, Ruiz spills about starting a game-changing punk band, how white slices ushered in her adulthood, and the high quality of bodega gelato selections. She also intuits the future of American prisons, all through a grease stain.