With the new Premier League season starting tomorrow we don't want to be tweaking our groins or our hamstrings, but that hasn't stopped Free Music Friday going hellbent for leather in its pursuit of the best downloads, streams, vids and trailers that money can't buy.
Sending the web into complete meltdown this past 48 hours is 'Growing Up', the surprise - and well nifty - new single from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Bag yourself a copy at [link]macklemore.com[/link]
Also getting copious Free Music Friday plays is this red hot Chance The Rapper and Lil' B mix.

Making it a hat trick of sizzling summer delights is Bang 3, the latest 14-track, A$AP Rocky and Mac Miller-assisted gangstafest from Chief Keef who's getting really good at this staying out of jail lark.

Already much lauded and loved here, SOAK has begun the process of wowing them on the other side of the Atlantic. Mission: Conquer America is considerably advanced by the gorgeous acoustic set she performed t’other day on NPR. Three Before We Forgot How To Dream standouts – ‘Sea Creatures’, ‘B a noBody’ and ‘Wait’ – were dispensed with considerable gusto. How could our colonial cousins possibly resist?

Hot Press Hot For 2015 pick Shamir Bailey also dropped by the American NPR offices this week. While his records are buffed to a fine production sheen, the Electric Picnic-bound 20-year-old doesn't need anything more than an acoustic guitar to rock your socks off.

There's more free music to be had courtesy of the folk from Rendezvous, the tasty looking two-dayer taking place next month in Colorado's Beaver Creek (no rude jokes please!) beauty spot. Drew Holcomb, John Oates, Indigo Girls and Holly Williams are among those pressed into preview mixtape action.



To the streams now and this week's NPR offerings include the bombastic (in a thoroughly good way!) pop-rock stylings of Grace Potter; hotshot Montreal producer CFCF; Palehound who do a neat line in serrated guitar; Aussie punks Royal Headache; Teen Daze, the indie pop hero who's finally come out of his bedroom and recorded an album with John Vanderslice that will hopefully achieve commercial lift-off, and a collection of previously unreleased tracks from the mighty Pavement.





Georgia, Sub Poppers Strange Wilds and Dave Clarke's Mr. Jones are the [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/albums.html[/link] offerings while [link]www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html?_r=3&[/link] would like you to make the acquaintance of Swedish folk rockers Small Feet
Our man Stuart Clark was among those reeling in the festival years on Féile: The Untold Story Of The Trip To Tipp, which aired this week on RTÉ Radio 1.
Slickly presented by Will Leahy on secondment for the afternoon from 2fm, it recalls a time when 40,000 people were content with just the one stage, didn’t feel it necessary to have their chakras balanced and whose foodie options were either gristleburger or greasedog. What they did get was lashings and lashings of great music, and hi-jinx aplenty afterwards in campsites that were designed for partying rather than sleeping. Ah, they were good days!
If you missed it or want a permanent Semple Stadium keepsake, it's available for free download here:

We're very taken with this live rendition of 'In The Morning' from FIELDS, AKA Dublin singer-songwriter Sean O'Brien who's definitely got a bit about him.

Foo Fighters' Million-Dollar Demos have surfaced online at http://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/cfcd732b26603765b1fc361dfe47765d20150804203733/ec1651 with fans able to hear early versions of 'All My Life', 'Halo', 'Overdrive', 'Have It All', 'Come Back', 'Lonely As You' and 'Normal'.
FMF has stumbled over a rich vein of live vids, which the UK's Absolute Radio network have shared with their listeners. Here are a few of the standouts!



Following on from their Broooooce-tastic cover of 'Dancing In The Dark', Hot Chip have had their wonderfully wicked way with LCD Soundsystem's 'All My Friends'.

Girl Band have unveiled the video for 'Paul', their new single which trails the September 25 release through Rough Trade of their Holding Hands With Jamie album. It features lots of faces, of which former Pogues and Prenup singer Cait O'Riordan's is one of the more familiar.

One of our fave Irish-based rappers, Emzee A, returns with the excellent Canis Major-produced 'Sober Thoughts'.

Which brings us to the end of another all killer, no filler Free Music Friday. Our groins and hamstrings having emerged unscathed from this week's exertions, we're looking forward to bagging three points tomorrow against Watford and marching triumphantly towards league glory for the first time since 1986. While we drown in self-delusion, keep those links coming to @stuartclark66