PATE Records. They get podcasting!

Coverville is one of my favorite podcasts. Coverville is Brian Ibbott’s one man show (though his wife and son make guest appearances) where he simply plays a half dozen cover songs about twice a week. He has some great finds, and I recently noticed that my last 8 iTunes purchases were all songs I’ve heard on his show.

Recently, Brian mentioned that one of the songs he had played (a punkish cover of George Michael’s Last Christmas performed by The Hairy Bottlers) was a song he received directly from their label, Pate Records of Austria (I think this is their web site). Yes, an obscure song by an obscure band from an obscure label, but a label that knew a good thing when it saw it. The more labels that warm up to podcasting and the internet in general, the less RIAA and disgruntled consumers there will be.