omnivore recordings Archive
29 Apr 2020
Album Review: America — Heritage II
Back when I was growing up, liking the music of the band America was something one pretty much kept to himself. They didn’t exactly rock, and though their vocals sometimes […]
18 Oct 2019
Album Review: Big Star — In Space
To those who followed Alex Chilton’s musical activities in the 1980s and beyond, the thought that he would ever revisit his Big Star-era music – much less put the band […]
25 Sep 2019
Album Review: International Pop Overthrow Volume 22
Now comes the 22nd volume in a long-running series of compilations chronicling the current state of powerpop. If this set is Exhibit A, the evidence is strong that it’s in […]
27 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … My first exposure to Kovacs was the PBS retrospective series, which I guess was in the late ’70s. Yeah. This record came out in ’76. […]
26 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part One)
There was no precedent for the comedy of Ernie Kovacs. A pioneering figure in the early days of television, Kovacs brought a bizarre kind of comedy – mostly verbal, but […]
19 Apr 2019
We Get What We Deserve: Big Star — Live on WLIR
As the shopworn saying goes – it has been applied to other acts as well – Big Star was a group that sold very few records during its original existence, […]
09 Jan 2019
Hundred-word Reviews for January 2019
The backlog is threatening to get unmanageable once again. As a kind of editorial pressure release valve, here’s a quick look at ten worthy albums that have recently crossed my […]
08 Jan 2019
No Way Out of Here: The Unicorn Story (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… David Gilmour wasn’t a complete novice in the ways of the studio. Then 27 years old, the guitarist had already co-produced six albums with Pink Floyd; […]
07 Jan 2019
No Way Out of Here: The Unicorn Story (Part One)
Early demo tapes from Unicorn, a country-rock group and protégés of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, show that the underappreciated British group had an authentic yet radio-ready sound that should have […]
06 Jan 2019
C&W UK Style: David Gilmour’s Pals Unicorn
Few people remember a British band from the 1970s called Unicorn. Though they never found widespread success, the band recorded four major-label albums. Two and half of those were produced […]