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The Neanderthal Spongecake With Cevin Soling Live At Spiral Lounge CMJ
The Neanderthal Spongecake, along with Cevin Soling, took the stage at the Spiral Lounge in NYC for the CMJ Music Festival fall of 1999 and rocked the room. The band was visually oriented and potent power rocked appearing in matching Blue jumpsuits for the band and silver sparking jacket covering his all black cloths for singer and songwriter Cevin Soling. Their performance was tight and the bands energy was palatable. Cevin sang the songs with a power and conviction of the rising star he presented. Billed during the CMJ Music week as one of the top 5 bands to watch the room was full and the expectations high. Check out the concert and tell us what you think!
We have four complete concerts in the Lost Concerts archives and you can request one if you like.
Who Are The Neanderthal Spongecake
The Neanderthal Spongecake (1998–2001)
In 1998 The Neanderthal Spongecake released their debut album, The Side Effects of Napalm. Cevin Soling and keyboardist Bill Brandau produced the album along with backing from Buffalo, New York-based band Scary Chicken.
The songs “This Thing” and the acoustic cover of “Metal Health” with Quiet Riot vocalist Kevin Dubrow both received extensive airplay on college and commercial radio in the United States. The song “Tastes Like Chicken” has been played on the Dr. Demento show, and the song “Buffalo” was featured in the closing credits of the A&E series Confessions of a Matchmaker.
The Village Voice listed the group as one of the top five bands performing in 1999’s CMJ music conference which is the concert offered here.
The band broke up in 2001 with the departure of then bassist Mark Tomase and drummer Martin Trum. Additional songs credited to The Neanderthal Spongecake after 2001 are solo recordings by Cevin Soling.
Who is Cevin Soling
In 2002, Cevin produced the album When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You’d Hear. He had convinced Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot to record a mellow version of the song “Metal Health” with him and started recruiting musicians to participate in that project. Some of the songs on the album include a version of Unforgettable by Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan, which he co-produced with DiFranco, Blondie’s “Call Me” by Alex Chilton and his band The Box Tops, and a cover of Shock The Monkey by Don Ho which Cevin also produced. Now with the band The Love Kills Theory Cevin is lead singer and songwriter for the band. Their album Happy Suicide, Jim! was released in January 2007. It charted on CMJ’s top 200 and was played in rotation on over 70 commercial radio stations.
Cevin wrote and directed the short animated film Boris the Dog, which aired on MTV in 1998 and later on the BBC. It won the “Premio Nuovo” award at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival. It aired as part of MTV’s Cartoon Sushi and on the BBC His short films Captain Stickman and Destruction were selected for the 2006 Chicago Indiefest. The Bill Johnson Show, an animated series written and created by Soling, was featured in Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival, as well as in the Shout Factory’s Caught in the Act video compilations. Soling was executive producer for the animated short Great Moments in Rock.
Where are the band members today
Cevin Soling formed an alternative rock band with Bill Brandau called The Love Kills Theory, an alternative rock band still based in New York City. They were formed in 2006 by Cevin Soling, and in January 2007 they released their debut album Happy Suicide, Jim!, a thirteen track CD with philosophical and anti-consumerist themes. The band’s original lineup consists of Bill Brandau on keyboard, Cevin Soling on vocals and guitar, Jim Minics on guitar, Darren Pilato on bass, and Jaron Stewart on drums.
Band Lineup for this CMJ 1999 Show:
Mark Tomase – Bass
Dan Kornfeld – Drums
Cevin Soling – Vocals
Bill Brandau – Keyboard
Andy Mass – Guitar
Neanderthal Spongecake Video Stats:
Date of Recording: Sep 17, 1999
Video: NTSC
Audio:Stereo
Time: 36 min
Digital File Size: 369Meg
Video Taster of The Neanderthal Spongecake
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