All recovered from Halloween? No? Well, Free Music Friday is up and tearing at the jugular anyway.

It’s straight in, no kissing with hot new [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] album streams from the Kronos Quartet, Alice Rose, Danny Vera, Laurel Halo, Sights & Sounds, Moonface, Grass House, Juana Molina and The Head And The Heart; over at [link]npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] it’s Cut Copy, Luscious Jackson, Midlake, Kronos Quartet and Death Cab For Cutie who are getting the pre-release listen treatment; [link]pitchfork.com/advance[/link] weighs in with Gesaffelstein, Melvins, Sébastien Tellier, Yvette, Tennis and Gardland but only until the middle of next week and the always bounteous [link]albumstreams.com[/link] adds Jeremey Neale, Blessed Feathers, Shy Girls, Dethlok, Gabriella Cilmi, Scott Stapp, Le Trouble, Marcus Reeves, A Lot Like Birds, Tinie Tempah, Avril Lavigne, a Bad Religion Christmas album – yes, really! – and a 30th anniversary edition of Billy Bragg’s Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs Spy to the mix.

There’s a fantastically disturbing video to accompany James Murphy’s ‘Hello Steve Reich Mix’ of David Bowie's ‘Love Is Lost’, which sonically references ‘Ashes To Ashes’. It's taken from the expanded three-disc version of The Next Day, which drops today.

Neko Case celebrated Halloween by treating America’s National Public Radio to a gorgeous acoustic set that for once – hiss, boo! – is not downloadable.

One that is, is this Tiny Desk concert from orchestral folk poppers San Fermin who’ll hopefully get their asses over here soon.

Next to [link]npr.org/event/music/239134780/arcade-fire-live-in-concert[/link] where you can hear an hour-long audio stream of Arcade Fire tearing up Capitol Studios in LA.

Modern pop-grunge noiseniks – their description! – Bouts are letting you try their Nothing Good Gets Away album before you buy.

Thank you to the gentleman in the Liverpool Echo Arena crowd who filmed the Arctic Monkeys paying tribute to Lou with a fabulous cover of ‘Walk On The Wild Side’. We’re just thrilled that Alex & Co. aren’t Mail On Sunday readers.

The Lou covers don’t end there with Kate Nash knocking out a lo-fi ‘Sweet Jane’ in her hotel room

There’s a great archive Lou Reed interview at [link]npr.org/blogs/world-cafe/2013/10/28/241432792/world-cafe-remembers-lou-reed[/link] while the whole of his 2008 visit to Washington DC’s 9:30 Club can be found at http://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90226727/lou-reed-in-concert

Mercury Music Prize winner James Blake – and not James Blunt as Lauren Laverne would have you believe – is sharing his fab bootleg mix of the Dublin-bound Drake’s ‘Come Thru’.

How he finds the time to knock ‘em all out we do not know, but Snoop Dogg has a new mixtape awaiting your download delectation.

In the run up to them running round Europe with the Arctic Monkeys – we reckon they’re going to get on great – The Strypes have come up with this hyperactive vid for ‘You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover’.

Mundy and Róisín O have duetted on ‘Turn Off The Silence’, a song supporting the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Penned by Miss O’s brother Danny O’Reilly and Mundy, the charity single hits iTunes on November 8 with the bulk of the €1.29 going towards the providing of essential counselling services.

Recorded in Westland Studios with Alwyn Walker at the helm, the cast of musicians includes Sarah Lynch, Keith Farrell and Jason Duffy.

Kodaline get to rather beautiful grips with Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together’ on Dutch radio.

The Free Music Friday Video of the Week goes though to MGMT whose ‘Alien Days’ clip has a supernatural Amish feel. With added goats.

And on that dreamy high, Free Music Friday takes its leave of you for another week. Have a fab 48 hours R&R and keep them links coming to @stuartclark66