- Music
- 25 Oct 13
Starring Flaming Lips, Boy George, Chris Cornell, Republic of Loose, Los Campesinos!, Turin Brakes, Death Cab For Cutie and much, much more...
This being a Bank Holiday – yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy! – Free Music Friday has a seriously bumper crop of tunes that will leave your bank account unmolested. Right, no further mucking about; let's get right to the loud and fast action...
[link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] kicks the week’s hot streaming action off with new offerings from Lily & Madeline, Russian Circles, Son Lux, EPROM, Saint Rich, Deetron, King Dalton, Dead Gaze, Charlie Jones, Reverend Shine Snake Oil Company, Boardwalk, The Black Spiders, Taymir, Doomriders, Rae & Christian, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Red Fang, DJ Rashad, Teitur, Heavenly Beat, Wymond Miles and Jo Harman; Death Cab For Cutie, Juana Molina, Son Lux, William Onyeabor and Starlito And Don are residing at [link]npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link]; [link]pitchfork.com/advance[/link] pitches in with Moonface, Russian Circles, Los Campesinos!, Skeletonwitch, Laurel Halo, Circuit Des Yeux, Bardo Pond and Whores; [link]nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html?_r=3&[/link] wants you to try Lily & Madeline, Black Hearted Brother, Samson & MEN and Crystal Antlers before you buy and [link]albumstreams.com[/link] desperately wants you to check out Zodiac, Moonface, The Audacity, Peter Broaderick, Deetron, Lindsey Sterling, Toxic Holocaust, Ihsahn, Leslie West, Medeia, Widowspeak, Worriers and The Necks.
A super-healthy looking Boy George is streaming his This Is What I Do album in its entirety – and fabulous stuff it is too, with Mr O’Dowd’s voice maturing into an appealingly gravelly baritone.
Flaming Lips are streaming their Ender’s Game-inspired Peace Sword EP at [link]exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/flaming_lips-peace_sword_ep_stream[/link]; New York jazz funkers TAUK offer a free taster from their Homunculus album at [link]wxrt.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/tauk-sunshine-harry-free-download[/link] and Dean Wareham proves there’s life after Galaxie 500 with this gorgeous [link]soundcloud.com/ravelrouser/emancipated-hearts[/link] giveaway.
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Track Dogs, the Madrid-based outfit whose ranks include Garrett Wall, are giving away the most excellent title-track from their All Roads Lead Me To Roam album.
It’s not going to win any prizes for clarity of sound, but nevertheless we’re loving this audio stream of Chris Cornell mashing up U2 and Metallica’s respective ‘One’ tracks.
The Soundgarden man was playing a solo show in San Diego’s Balboa Theater when he switched into tribute mode.
Our friends at American National Public Radio spoil us with free acoustic download sessions from Daughter, Okkervil River and the singular talent that is Valerie June who has to be heard to be believed.
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Our favourite Free Music Friday thing this week is this four-track demo collection of songs that feature on the new Turin Brakes album, We Were Here.
Also new this week from the Noise Trade stable is Speak A Little Louder, a tasty six-track sampler from Diane Birch who’s the missing link between Stevie Nicks and Feist.
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Republic of Loose celebrate the 10th birthday of their classic ‘Girl I’m Gonna Fuck You Up’ single by giving away previously unreleased studio and live versions at [link]republicofloose.com/site/?page_id=1185[/link]
We absolutely adore what Ricky Ross has done to Lorde’s ‘Royals’ ginormohit at [link]inflexwetrust.com/2013/10/22/djfunkflexapp-exclusive-lorde-ft-rick-ross-royals-rozay-remix[/link]
Angel Haze’s being unable to go a week without gifting us a new tune continues, with the Hot Press Hot For 2013 star offering up this cover Macklemore’s ‘Same Love’. That debut album can’t come too soon…
Myles O’Reilly, aka video whiz Arbutus Yarns, reminds us of this great promo he shot in 2010 for West Cork hero man Fergus O’Farrell.
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And that is yer’ Free Music Friday lot for another week. Whatever the Bank Holiday holds in store, have a good ‘un and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66