Free Music!

Do you guys use NoiseTrade? You can legally download free music in exchange for giving the artist your email address and zip code. Though not mandatory, you are also encouraged to give them a tip (of any amount you choose) for sharing their music -- and they end up getting way more money this way than if you bought the songs from iTunes.

Love it.

One of my favorites, Madi Diaz, has a three-song sampler on NoiseTrade right now that I highly recommend you download! She's kind of folky and poppy, with a hint of twang now and then. (And she grew up in Lancaster PA, so she gets extra love points for that!) "Let's Go," which is on this sampler, has been a favorite the past few months.

I discovered Madi about 5 years ago I guess, during the short stint we lived in Boston and I listened to WERS (the indie station out of Emerson College) during my commute. She was still a student at Berklee College of Music and playing small shows with Matt Pond PA. Good stuff.

Incidentally, when I feel like discovering new music, I stream WERS to this day. Isn't the internet grand? WERS is how I originally discovered probably the majority of the artists I listen to.

Anyway, William Fitzsimmons, the Civil Wars and Rosie Thomas all have free music available on NoiseTrade right now as well. More great things than my ears can handle!

What are you listening to these days?


NOTE: I haven't been paid or perked by NoiseTrade, WERS or any of the artists mentioned.