::NEW RELEASES::

omni038
THE DIPERS
“How To Plan Successful Parties” CD (out now)/LP (due in a few weeks)
- The gaucherie that is How to Plan Successful Parties relies not on
squishy sentiments, fist-pumping party anthems, nor smoke and mirror
tricks to project it’s message and the reason for this is that
Successful Parties has no message. In fact, you will find not a single
set of instructions for arranging celebrations successful or otherwise
so don’t even look. Written democratically and without a dictionary by
Emphysema, Ricketts, and Cirrhosis (all, it should be said, past and
present members of other similarly bombastic and trashy musical outfits
such as A-Frames, the Intelligence, and Double Fudge) and recorded by
Sacramento’s stun-gun toting boy genius, Chris Woodhouse, these seven
songs ooze sexy mashed potato slush laced with shrapnel and unicorn
horns. Put these songs on after polishing off a box of bargain basement
macaroni and cheese and see if you don’t have to fight the urge to run
a nice lukewarm bath and set that bitch on repeat.
http://tonevendor.com/item/10538

omni043
THE INTELLIGENCE
"Boredom And Terror" CD (released to stores 01/06/04 - available for
mailorder now)
- Consider, if you will, the combination of boredom and terror. (If you
won’t, get your ass-face back in the PT Cruiser you rode in on; we
don’t like your kind around here.) The combo is not just the inevitable
couplet of the current millennium, but a dream destination and a
Tupperware party that you can’t wait to escape from, too. Like salt and
pepper, Turner and Hooch, Love and Rockets, ebony and ivory, and shock
and awe, boredom and terror are unavoidable; they are culture and
culture is them. Get used to it, baby, because they’re already pretty
used to you. In order to sonically lay it down sideways for you, Lars
Finberg, the lo-fi dandy of West Seattle, locked his front door and
pressed the record button on his favorite eight-track machine and made
ten songs that could be either ecclesiastic alien probes, Hank Williams
going electro-slash, or John Lennon making friends with a video game.
Finberg, you’ll probably want to know, is the Battlestar
Galactica-esque drummer of the A-Frames, and while the programmed beats
he’s employed herein are reminiscent of that band’s post-punk heroics,
their digital drag and slur render them feathers of an entirely
different bird. Lyrically, our post-pop sarcastic Snoop Dog-substitute
slays us best on the album’s standout track, “Telephone Wires,” rhyming
“telephone wires/connecting the liars/directly to fires/that never get
tired” and on and on and on. And while it should be said that Finberg,
in his sequestered 8-track sanctuary, teems with true talent, it simply
has to be said that the band he has collected in the wake of these
recordings are veritable toolboxes of the stuff. Members of A-Frames,
Pyramids, and Thee Flying Dutchmen join Finberg in his live recitations
of this stuff, and it only gets way, way better.. So now that you’ve
had some time to floss your brain with the combo of our generation and
simultaneously spin this little Ritz of a cracker in your Discman,
we’re sure you’ll agree that terror is indeed boring and boredom is
indeed terrifying. And the Intelligence are your new People magazine.
http://tonevendor.com/item/10570


::NEWS::
Omnibus alumni Marty Crandall and Neal Langford (both of the Shins and
Flake Music) have teamed up with Howard from the Busy Signals to record
a forthcoming CD E.P. on Omnibus under the name THE GOOD GOODBYES.
It's tentatively scheduled to be released in February, more details to
follow soon.

Don't miss THE INTELLIGENCE on the West Coast with Popular Shapes, see
"Upcoming Shows" below for more info.

ELECTRO GROUP have finished their upcoming CD e.p. entitled "Ummo" due
in February 2004. It will feature a video (in MPEG format) for the
title track created by Uli from Mt. St. Mtn. and staring Jay Howell (of
Shove, Gift Of Goats) who also contributed the cover art for the
release. Electro Group will be hitting playing up and down the West
Coast starting in December, and are working on some East Coast dates in
April around the time of the release of their new full length.

::NEXT UP::
(omni036) THE COACHWHIPS – “Purse Peekin’” 7 inch
(omni037) A-FRAMES – “Traction” b/w “Police 2000” 7 inch
(omni039) LUKE TOP (The Cave-Ins/Ceramic Isles) “Unloading The Sun” – CD
(omni041) ELECTRO GROUP – “Ummo” enhanced CD EP
(omni042) GARY YOUNG'S HOSPITAL (ex. Pavement) - "The Grey Album" CD
(omni044) CITIZENS HERE AND ABROAD "Ghosts Of Chairs" - CD
(omni045) KARATE PARTY - "Disorganizms" - CD/LP
(omni046) BIG SEARCH (ex. The Cave-Ins/Ceramic Isles) - "Mysticism Vs.
Classicism" - CD
(omni047) THE GOOD GOODBYES (mem. of The Shins/Flake Music) - CD EP


::SHOWS::
http://omnibusrecords.com/up.html


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