2002
News Archive:
10/21/02
Kevin Bronson wrote a brief piece
about Linus
Of Hollywood's collaboration with Tim Burgess of the Charlatans
UK in the Oct. 17th edition of the LA Times. Click here
to read it. Scroll down to the bottom and there's also a mention of
Kim Fox's new
record, "Return To Planet Earth".
Linus Of Hollywood and the Mello
Cads will be travelling to Japan in December to perform. Check
back to this page for the latest info.
For those of you who missed the show a few weeks ago, you can catch
Linus Of Hollywood, Kim Fox and the always-entertaining Mello Cads
back at the Derby
in Hollywood on December 3rd. See ya there!
9/8/02
The
Mello Cads and Linus
Of Hollywood (with special guests The
Sugarplastic) will be performing at the Derby
in Hollywood, CA on October 8th at 9PM. See ya there!
8/12/02
Work on Kim Fox's "Return To Planet Earth" CD
finally finished last month. Due out in early 2003 on Franklin Castle,
this stellar album features guest appearances by Roger Manning (Jellyfish/Beck),
Jon Brion, Ben Eshbach (Sugarplastic), Linus Of Hollywood, Margo Guryan
and more. For more info (and sound clips) check out the Kim
Fox website. We have also added the new tracks to Franklin
Castle Radio.
Thanks to everyone who came out last month and supported Franklin
Castle Night at the IPO Festival in LA.
6/11/02
Check
out the new official Mello Cads website here!
6/2/02
Mark your calendars for "Franklin Castle
Night" at this year's International
PopOver-
throw Festival in Los Angeles. This is your chance to see
Linus Of Hollywood, Kim Fox, and the Mello Cads
all in the same night! The show takes place on July 19th at
the Joint in Hollywood, and we hope you will join us
for some great music and fun giveaways. Here's the lineup:
7:30 Einstein's Sister
8:00 Evie Sands
8:30 The Now People
9:00 Linus Of Hollywood
9:30 Kim Fox
10:00 The Mello Cads
10:30 Parallax Project
11:00 Fonda
5/21/02
Today's
the day! The Mello Cads debut CD "Soft As A Rock" is officially released.
Get your copy here! Don't forget to check
out the Cads performing tonight at Spaceland in Silverlake.
5/15/02
For
those of you who live in Southern California, be sure to catch the
Mello Cads record release party at Spaceland
(in Silverlake) this Tuesday, May 21st. Their new CD, "Soft As A Rock"
will be available at the show.
04/22/02
We
are proud to welcome the Japanese band Qypthone to the Franklin
Castle label. Look for their US debut CD "Modernica In The U.S.A."
to be released this summer. In the meantime, check out the sound clips
on their artist page.
Don't
forget to check out the Mello Cads'
last show of their residency at the Knitting Factory tomorrow night
(April 23rd). The show was selected as the "Critic's Choice" in this
week's Los Angeles New Times. Here's what they had to say:
"Kitsch
them: On their debut CD, Soft As A Rock, the Mello Cads
make it perfectly clear that it's more about "the Association or
Harper's Bizarre" than "the Beatles or the Stones." With an ultra-schmaltzy
persona that makes Barry Manilow seem like Handsome Dick Manitoba,
cocktail-clutching head Cad David Ponak comes off like a cross
between Jack Jones and Mike Douglas in his wry, Playboy
After Dark, delivery of classic hits and curios by such soft-rock
Svengalis as Paul Williams, Burt Bacharach, and Jimmy
Webb. For their monthlong residency in the suitably intimate AlterKnit
Lounge, Ponak (who plays similar lighter-than-air fare weekly
on KPFK's Liquid Room) has assembled an onstage extravaganza
complete with a coterie of go-go girls and musical contributions from
album producer Linus Of Hollywood as well as members of the
Wondermints and the Negro Problem. The kitsch is back,
which essentially means you don't have to feel embarrassed anymore
shouting out for "Barbarella" instead of "Free Bird". -- Jim Freek
04/12/02
The Mello Cads' debut CD "Soft As A Rock"
will be officially released on May 21st. If you can't wait
that long, the Cads will be selling copies of the CD at their next
two Knitting Factory shows. Click here
for the show info.
A new interview with Linus Of Hollywood has been posted online. Click
here
to read it.
02/22/02
You've been hearing us talk about
it for months, and now the Mello Cads' debut CD, "Soft As
A Rock", has FINALLY been completed and mixed! The CD will
be released on Franklin Castle in the next few months, and the Mello
Cads will be doing a residency at LA's Knitting Factory in
April. Here's the press release:
MELLO CADS RETURN
"SOFT AS A ROCK" COMING TO THE STAGE AND TO THE STORES.
For the last year or so there's been a deafening silence in the Los
Angeles music scene. Through the late 90's, local lounge/soft pop
legends the Mello Cads thrilled audiences with their groovy mix of
magically crafted originals and covers of classics and hidden gems
from the likes of Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, and Neil Hefti. Lately,
however, the Mello Cads have been missing. Rumors abounded. Had lead
Cad David Ponak really become a monk? Had he been murdered
by Japanese call girl?
The truth of the matter is Ponak is fine. He's been spending the past
year enjoying his international playboy lifestyle, hosting his radio
show "The Liquid Room" on KPFK, and most importantly, plotting
the return of the Mello Cads. He's spent a good part of the past 15
months locked away in the studio with producer Linus Of Hollywood
creating the Mello Cads debut release, Soft As A Rock, to be released
this spring through Franklin Castle Records. Not content with merely
a collection of songs, they've created a concept album, a "song
cycle," if you will. Soft As A Rock tells a story through song,
word, sound, and heartbreak. In addition to substantial musical contributions
from Linus, the CD features guest appearances from the legendary Paul
Williams, fellow Franklin Castle recording artist Kim Fox,
and Nick Walusko from the Wondermints, to name just a few.
The music of Soft As A Rock is breathtakingly lush, melodic, and groovy.
Soft As A Rock has turned out to be too large to be contained on a
mere compact disc.
Soon, it will be a live, on stage extravaganza. Ponak has assembled
a set of incredible musicians to bring the story and music of Soft
As A Rock to the stage. The line-up includes Probyn Gregory
(Brian Wilson, Wondermints) on guitar and horns, the amazing Bob
Remstein on keyboards, Nelson Bragg (The Negro Problem)
on drums, and Linus Of Hollywood himself on bass. The stage
version of Soft As A Rock will be more than just a live show; it will
be a total entertainment experience.
SOFT AS A ROCK
Starring the Mello Cads
The Alterknit Lounge at The Knitting Factory Hollywood
7021 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-463-0204
EVERY TUESDAY IN APRIL!
Doors open at 7:30, show at 8:00 PM SHARP.
For media guest list email: david@mellocads.com
1/17/02
Check
out the new official Kim Fox website here!
