Nellie McKay Leaves Label | Label Not Releasing Album

Monday I reported that Nellie McKay was unhappy with Columbia/Sony’s decision to release a shorter version of her next CD, and that Pitchfork reported that she won the dispute with the label. Well, that wasn’t totally true because now the LA Times is reporting that Nellie is releasing the album on her own AND that she has ” split with the label”

“To be on our own now, it does make things a lot easier,” she said. “We’re thinking … we’ll probably put it on the Internet first sometime in January and then coordinate the [conventional] release around ‘Threepenny,’ maybe in February.” A Columbia spokeswoman said Monday that the label had no comment.

By “Threepenny”, she means The Threepenny Opera that she’ll be starring in along with Alan Cumming and Edie Falco on Broadway. Oops, strike Edie.