True Devotion

After a visit to my local post office I now have Rocky Votolato's new release as well as a bonus 7". I bought the album online a few weeks back & just love everything he releases. He's really kind of folksy but indie folksy I guess, so if you're into that old country type of thing he might be right up your alley. I've been listening to him for gosh, 7 years now so I'm a little biased. Definitely catch a performance if you can & if you buy his new album, a portion will go to charity.

"Rocky has partnered with a new Seattle-based organization called One Days Wages, which is dedicated to the cause of fighting global poverty — 10% of all Rocky's royalties from sales of true devotion will be donated directly to One Day's Wages."

www.barsuk.com
www.onedayswages.org

He also has a website which doesn't seem to be loading at the moment, but when it's working it's set up quite nicely.
www.rockyvotolato.com

Pirate Vinyl

I've seen a couple vinyl records floating around on ebay lately - PJ Harvey B-Sides which I know she nor Island or even Too Pure put out. Someone took a bunch of her B-Sides, used photos from 'A Place Called Home' & 'This Is Love' & pressed some vinyl. Both records look identical. They took the lipstick picture from Dry for the label. There's no release info. I'm really curious as to who put these out. The sound quality isn't that great but the songs are actually on there. I have somehow become obsessed with collecting all of her vinyl so how could I resist.