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We’re celebrating our first birthday at NoiseTrade today. We built NoiseTrade to connect artists and fans through a Fair Trade exchange of music. In the last year the artists who used our widget found 160,000 new fans and gave those fans over one and a half million song downloads. ...

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/sethjames Hometown: WICHITA FALLS, TX Genre: AMERICANA/COUNTRY For Fans of: PAUL THORN, DELBERT MCCLINTON, CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, WADE BOWEN, JOHNNY LANG

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/floparis Hometown: NASHVILLE

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/carlthomasgladstone Hometown: DETROIT, MI Genre: ACOUSTIC/ALTERNATIVE For Fans of: AVETT BROTHERS, RED MOUNTAIN MUSIC, THE AILANTHUS SINGERS

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/tirzahlemmens Hometown: MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL Genre: POP/FOLK ROCK For Fans of: COLBIE CAILLAT, SARA BAREILLES, INGRID MICHAELSON, LEIGH NASH, ADELE

Andy Whitman of Paste Magazine on this weeks RIAA ruling. He nicely captures the tension between supporting artists and accepting that the world has changed. Time to stop fighting to stop the sun from setting and start figuring out how to work in the dark. Andy Whitman on the RIAA

David updated his NoiseTrade widget with new songs, and is making great use of it. David is giving away demos and cuts that didn’t make it on the album, great additional content for fans, and music that a lot of work went into that would otherwise be unused. ...

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/bleu Hometown: LOS ANGELES

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/sleepingatlast Hometown: WHEATON, IL.

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/skooberHometown: ELMIRA, NYGenre: POWERPOP/POPFor Fans of: CHEAP TRICK, THE BEATLES, LETTERS TO CLEO, ENUFF Z’NUFF, FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/christawellsHometown: RALEIGH, NCGenre: INDIE/POPFor Fans of: SARA GROVES, BROOKE FRASER, SARA BAREILLES, PATTY GRIFFIN, INGRID MICHAELSON

Cool piece in the Atlantic today on the growth of the Music Industry in Nashville. The call us the Silicon Valley of The Music Business. Pretty cool. We love the NoiseTrade hometown.

Direct Link: http://www.noisetrade.com/skottfreedman Hometown: SAN DIEGO, CA

I was in Atlanta Friday, so I dropped by the Paste office to catch up with my former partners, co-workers and friends. I got a first hand view of how the Save Paste campaign was going and what the mood was like around the office...