- Music
- 04 May 12
What better way to celebrate the Bank Holiday weekend than with a bit of My Bloody Valentine?
Free Music Friday has its Hawaiian shirt and shorts on and is looking forward to a sun-drenched – hey, you've got to think positive! – Bank Holiday Weekend that will see King Kenny and his deeply unlovely Liverpool troops mullered in the FA Cup Final.
We kick off this week with the My Bloody Valentine reissue streams that can be found at [link]guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/01/my-bloody-valentine-loveless-stream[/link]
Yes, the reissues really do exist, sound and look lovely and are in the shops today, shoegaze fans!
There are also five French MBV covers to be downloaded from [link]imperialtour.fr/mybloodycovers[/link]
There’s more hot streaming action at [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] where the new releases by Richard Hawley, Zulu Winter, Father John Misty, Damon Albarn, Dr. Dee, Norah Jones, Geof Narrow, Light Asylum and loads more await.
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Ms. Jones is also residing at [link]music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1[/link] with Marilyn Manson, Hurt and the casts of Glee and Smash if you’re that way inclined.
It’s unusually quiet over at [link]npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] with only the debut solo offering from Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins to report. It’s a rootsy stunner though!
[link]soundcloud.com/thegaslightanthem/45-1/s-iVlvz[/link] is home to the Gaslight Anthem single, ‘45’; [link]worldwiderebeltour.com/regions/ireland[/link] has a free Tom Morello doc, partially as Gaelige; [link]soundcloud.com/gilded-alm/sets/emmett-tinley-in-my-life[/link] offers a sneak preview of the new self-titled Emmet Tinley album, which drops on May 18; [link]jbonamassa.com/freemp3/index.php?a=6[/link] is a must-visit for fans of American guitar gods; and [link]goatboy.bandcamp.com[/link] finds the horny Dublin outfit very generously gifting us their new album.
We may, sniff, have lost Richie Egan to Malmo but [link]soundcloud.com/musicisforlosers/please-dont-turn-the-record[/link] and [link]soundcloud.com/musicisforlosers/its-shadow-wont-make-noise[/link] offer compensation in the form of two new Jape tunes.
We’re also most enamoured of the two tasters from Cornershop’s Urban Turban album at [link]soundcloud.com/cornershop/11-what-did-the-hippie-have[/link] and [link]soundcloud.com/cornershop/10-dedicated[/link]
The new Gossip long-player, A Joyful Noise, can be listened to at [link]guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/04/gossip-joyful-noise-album-stream[/link]
The free downloads continue with a new Mr. Oizo EP and cool retro site at [link]oizo3000.com[/link]
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We thought The Spinto Band had broken up but [link]drownedinsound.com/news/4144862[/link] wonderfully proves otherwise.
Hot on the heels of Jack Black’s most chucklesome Hot Press interview, Tenacious D are streaming their new long-player at [link]soundcloud.com/tenaciousd/sets/rize-of-the-fenix[/link]
This week’s video feast begins with the Mahoney footie song, ‘We’re On Our Way’, which features Lir and David Gray man Rob Malone, is raising money for the Laura Lynn Children’s Hospice Foundation and is endorsed by Robbie Keane.
In advance of their cockrocktastic new album, we bring you The Darkness on stage at the Hammy Odeon with a swearing Brian May. It gets no better!
There’s more quality hard rock to be had courtesy of Dublin foot-on-the-monitor merchants Children Of The Son who are barely out of the womb.
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[link]soundcloud.com/79cortinaz/sets/doing-it-again[/link] bears some quality tuneage from 79Cortinaz (they can’t spell for toffee though) while Irish mastermixer Holmes Price gives Kris Menace the treatment at [link]goldenscissors.info/2012/05/04/tronik-youth-may-mix-2012[/link] as part of the latest downloadable Tronik Youth mix.
Playing Newark, Noo Joisy the other night, Brooooce and The E Street Band played very beautiful tribute to Levon Helm with an awesome version of ‘The Weight’.
LSD, marriage scams, death threats, the IRA and daffodil theft all feature in Kevin Barry’s Hot Press interview this issue. As well as penning award-winning books, he’s also made a “hillbilly cannibal” short film which can be perused here.
The ballad of Kid Kanturk from johnny butler on Vimeo.
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You slaaaaaaag! We are loving the geezertastic [link]guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/may/03/ill-manors-trailer-plan-b-exclusive?intcmp=ILCMUSIMG9382[/link] trailer for Plan B’s Ill Manors movie, which hits screens on June 6.
And that, we’re afraid, is your Free Music Friday lot for another week. Remember to send all your juicy links to @stuartclark66 and Come On You Other Blues!