Thank you Jellyfish fans! We are completely sold out of the first run of colored vinyl of both Spilt Milk and Bellybutton! We hope your turntables are happy! The stock 180-gram black vinyl editions are being manufactured now. These will be unlimited pressings, and we’ll let you know when they are available.
 
 
 
 

Today is Ernie Kovac’s birthday! And to celebrate, we’re very excited to announce our partnership with Ediad Productions to release all audio material from the archive of the estates of legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs and Tony-Award winning singer/entertainer Edie Adams. This announcement comes as a birthday gift to Kovacs fans as today would have been his 93rd birthday. Post a birthday remembrance via social media and sign off with one of his signature phrases, “It’s Been Real.”

The first album to be released is titled Percy Dovetonsils Thpeaks, a previously unreleased comedy album featuring Kovacs’ best-known and beloved character originally recorded in 1961. Full details and track listing will be announced shortly. Percy Dovetonsils Thpeaks is a collection featuring bits from Kovacs gentle, martini drinking, lisping, fey poet who became ripe fodder for a comedy album in the late 1950s. A fan favorite on his television shows, this album was recorded for an independent record label before legal entanglements shelved the project until the 1970s. The reel had been mislabeled and was discovered recently by archivist Ben Model. After hearing Kovacs discuss the record in a CBC Canada television interview, Model was able to piece together the mislabeled tape and realized its current value.

The album will appeal to Kovacs fans who have demonstrated their continuing interest in the iconic comedian by purchasing large numbers of the recently released 6-DVD box set The Ernie Kovacs Collection.

Additional audio-only material from the archive includes a vast, never-before-heard collection of soundtracks from Ernie Kovacs shows of the early 1950s. This material survives on more than 150 audio airchecks. We are presently working through material from these recordings for release this year and beyond. Additional material in the archive includes audio selections from the career of Edie Adams, who was also Kovacs’ wife up until his passing in 1962.

Why Omnivore, that’s who! Vinyl does rule and you folks are helping us preach the gospel. Thanks to all of you, we saw Jellyfish hit #11 with Spilt Milk and lucky #13 with Bellybutton. The awesome Alex Chilton hit #15 with Free Again: The “1970” Sessions.

Speaking of Alex, dig this awesome NPR piece on good ol’ #15…
 
 
 

Wait, I thought Jellyfish only released two albums.

That is correct, but in Omnivore’s quest for the perfect pressing to honor those releases, we scrapped an entire run of finished goods. They were ready to ship. But, beforehand, we played them and said “No way, can’t do it like this,” and had them redone to be the stellar, beautiful, and audiolicious copies available now.

Did I say we scrapped the entire run? Well, truth be told, we held a handful back for moments just like this. So, Omnivore and the awesome Popdose are giving you a chance to win the two official LPs and sealed copies of the original, rejected run. There are only, literally, a handful of them in existence, so if you’re a Jellyfish fan, you need to visit Popdose and try your luck at scoring them.

The Two Things In One performed a great set at Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA this past week. For those of you that couldn’t make it, here’s a pic from the gig—to see more, check out The Two Things page.

Richard Thompson’s “Banish Misfortune,” from the Omnivore 30th Anniversary reissue of Strict Tempo!, is a free download today on KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune. Happy Boxing Day!

Right here in our shop, you can pick up Strict Tempo! on CD or digitally. The CD version is packaged in a holiday-appropriate limited-edition “greeting card” (first pressing only).
 
 
 

Today’s Top Tune from KCRW is from our forthcoming Alex Chilton title Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions coming January 10, 2012! “Come On Honey” is a free download today only, so head on over to KCRW’s site for an advance taste of what’s coming in January! Of course, you may pre-order right here in our shop and if you’re a vinyl lover, be sure to order the exclusive LP/7″ bundle limited to 500 pieces, it features the clear vinyl LP and a 7″ single in a custom picture sleeve of two alternate versions of the previously unreleased song, “All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain!”
 
 
 

Check out the five-star review in Mojo!
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We’re writing to hopefully bring a little extra holiday cheer to your turntables, iPods, and CD players for the new year!

We’ve really appreciated your patience over the past month or so since we opened the web store. We’ve been modifying and tweaking it, and trying to figure out the best ways get music directly to you! You’ll now notice that we’ve added Media Mail as an option for our U.S. customers and we can now ship internationally. You’d think that making these changes would be easy but frankly, nothing is easy! We’re very sensitive to how much it costs to ship packages (we buy a lot of records ourselves) and we’ve been trying to find the very best rates. Again, thank you for your patience in this matter!

If you experience any difficulties in ordering in the shop, please email us directly so we can resolve the issue.

That having been said, if you’re a U.S. resident who currently has anything on pre-order with us and would like to have it shipped Media Mail, please simply cancel your order and re-order selecting Media Mail.

Holiday shipping: For orders within the U.S., you must order on or before December 16 for arrival on or before December 24, We highly recommend using the Priority Mail shipping option. For orders shipping outside the U.S., you should not expect delivery on or before December 24.

Omnivore Recordings wishes you and yours a very merry holiday season, and we look forward to bringing you lots of excellent and amazing music in the new year!

Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions are the first solo recordings from a post-Box Tops/pre-Big Star Alex Chilton. The album, mixed and engineered by Terry Manning, will be released as a 20-track CD featuring six previously unreleased songs, and 12-track LP. The first 1,500 LPs will be pressed on limited-edition clear vinyl (black vinyl thereafter).The album will also be available digitally at all major online retailers, as well as the Omnivore Recordings webstore.

A special Omnivore webstore exclusive bundles 500 clear vinyl LPs with a bonus 7″ that includes the original and demo versions of the previously unreleased “All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain.”

Here’s a first listen to the track “The EMI Song (Smile For Me)” (Original Mono Mix).