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This Week's Featured Music

Cody ChesnuTT

Landing On A Hundred

Soulshine

Soulshine EP (featuring Michael Franti and SOJA)

This Week's Featured eBook

Mark Sayers’ writing has been called “genius,” “uncomfortable,” and “prophetic in the deepest sense of the word.”

In the late 1940s, Jack Kerouac and his fellow beatniks took a road trip that changed the world. To them, life was a journey and the destination didn’t matter. Decades later, we are still following their steps, in ways we hardly recognize.

SIMILAR AUTHORS Malcolm Gladwell, Andy Crouch, Brett McCracken

Will's Weekend Wrap-Up

Welcome to the weekend, my friends! As you may have noticed, the NoiseTrade Friday Four has morphed a little bit into Will's Weekend Wrap-Up. While the name has changed, the song remains the same. Each week I'll still be doing my best to help you navigate through the thousands and thousands of releases on NoiseTrade by spotlighting four selections that are worthy of your time and attention to check out. Some selections will be old, some will be brand new, some will be by artists you know, and some will be by artists you may have never listened to before. However, they will all share one common denominator –they've been test-driven by yours truly and have been compiled here as a weekly digital mixtape from my musical heart to yours. –WILL HODGE, NoiseTrade Music Editor

Mike Doughty

The Furthermost of Mike Doughty

You may know Mike Doughty from his days fronting '90s cult favorite Soul Coughing or from his prolific solo work since the early 2000s. However, if the name is new to you, The Furthermost of Mike Doughty offers you a chance to dive earsfirst into his poetic, guitar-driven wonderment. This 14-year retrospective features selections from his solo output (start with "Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well"), reworkings of Soul Coughing songs ("The Idiot Kings" is a must spin), a quirky sample-infused cover of John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulders" (titled "Sunshine" here), and a tasty Christmas duet with Rosanne Cash.

Sarah Macintosh

The Waiters, the Watchers, the Listeners, the Keepers, and Me

Sarah Macintosh's angelic voice effortlessly floats above and swirls around the alt-rock, electro-pop atmospherics of her songs in a way that shows a beautiful ebb and flow of restraint and abandonment. While her songs can be equally at home within a church or a club show, the place they will take up residence most in is your heart. The percussive thump of "Stop! Stop!" and the waltzy piano-riffed "Be Glorified" are fantastic starting points on this one.

Asthmatic Kitty Records

Asthmatic Kitty Digitial Sampler Spring 2014

Asthmatic Kitty Records is one of my favorite indie labels and their diverse roster of left-of-center artists never ceases to surprise and delight me. Their Spring 2014 sampler celebrates Asthmatic Kitty's 15th year as a label and features standout tracks from Sufjan Stevens, Denison Witmer, Fol Chen, Sisyphus, and more. There are a few previously unreleased gems on here (such as Lily and Madeleine's acoustic version of "I've Got Freedom"), some recently released goodies (Sisyphus' unbeatable "Lion's Share"), and a closing 13-minute electronically epic "Year of the Horse" from Sufjan Stevens to honor his 2001 album Enjoy Your Rabbit being pressed on vinyl for this very first time this summer.

Caitlin Rose

NoiseTrade Eastside Manor Sessions EP

We recorded Caitlin Rose last summer for one of our earliest Eastside Manor Sessions and this one's a beaute. Caitlin's smoky, ethereal vocals shine through the lounge-tinged, vintage country vibe of her songs and being able to capture it all in a live setting like this speaks volumes to her talents. "Pink Champagne" is a gorgeous weeper and "No More Lonely" is a fun rockabilly rocker, but you should seriously just download the whole thing and enjoy every second of this all-too-short EP. You can also check out the entire session, some behind-the-scenes B-roll footage, and an interview with Caitlin in this video.

When writer Will Hodge isn’t blaming the memory of old numbers, you can find him running off at the keyboard about music, concerts, and vinyl at My So-Called Soundtrack.