- Music
- 20 Jul 12
Another fine offering of new tunes for nowt...
While some people are more interested in the minor sporting competition that’s kicking off next week in London, it’s all about the tunes here at Free Music Friday.
You have up until 7.30pm tonight to download ‘Sleep Alone’, the first single to be lifted from Two Door Cinema Club’s Beacon album, which drops in September. A pearler of a tune, you’ll find it at [link]http://twodoorcinemaclub.com[/link]
Next to [link]http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] where new album streams from Passion Pit, Baroness, Family Band, Young Moon, Adele & Glenn, Van She, John Maus, Oneman, Frank Ocean and Nas await.
It’s “welcome and where have you been all our lives?” to [link]http://radio6.nl/luisterpaal[/link], another Dutch site with a jazzy bent and Kate McGarry, Kelly Hogan, Leadfoot River, Christian Scott, Criolo and Heliocentric Counterblast streams.
[link]http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1[/link] pitches in with newbies from Boys Like Girls, Hellyeah, Saving Abel, Soul Asylum and District 97 and the Batman: Dark Knight Rises soundtracking Hans Zimmer while [link]http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/1[/link] adds Citizen Cope, Angus Stone, Shout Out Out Out Out, Hot Panda, Conveyor, The Drowning Men and Matisyahu to the streaming list.
Passion Pit are also residing at [link]http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] along with Purity Ring, Laetitia Sadler and The Gaslight Anthem.
Our friends at American National Public Radio are also treating us to a downloadable 65-minute Best Coast gig at [link]http://www.npr.org/event/music/156865457/best-coast-in-concert[/link]; there’s more of the same from Gang Gang Dance at [link]http://www.npr.org/event/music/157038123/gang-gang-dance-in-concert[/link]; Souad Massi at [link]http://www.npr.org/event/music/156624178/souad-massi-tiny-desk-concert?autoplay=true[/link] and Laura Marling at [link]http://www.npr.org/event/music/156301228/laura-marling-tiny-desk-concert?autoplay=true[/link]
Hot Chip are being meanies by only letting you stream their [link]http://www.npr.org/event/music/156633214/hot-chip-in-concert[/link] set, which was broadcast live t’other night on the web.
The Alchemist’s epic new album is streaming at [link]http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-alchemists-twisted-full-russian-roulette[/link] with Action Bronson among the guests; [link]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jul/09/very-best-mtmtmk-album-stream%20%E2%80%A6[/link] finds The Very Life taking African music in some amazing new directions; Check out another new tune from Stars’ forthcoming The North album at [link]http://soundcloud.com/youarestars/hold-on-when-you-get-love-and[/link]; and [link]http://soundcloud.com/jagjaguwar/dinosaur-jr-watch-the-corners[/link] proves that Dinosaur Jr. can still cut it – and then some!
Our old [link]http://valentinoisdead.com [/link]chums are giving away new album standout ‘Misadventures In Punk Rock’ in return for your email address.
Dublin’s very wonderful Sunken Foal is giving away his Friday Syndrome Vol. 3 album at [link]http://countersunk.org/friday_vol1_album.html[/link] along with prints of the generative artwork and t-shirts that you can bleeding well pay for, you skinflints!
The Hot Press fave? ‘Gee-Eyed’ of course!
No Free Music Friday would be complete without a killer hip hop mixtape, which is this week supplied by Kool Keith. Total Orgasm? Quite right it is!
Some eye candy for you now. John Cooper Clark and Kano will be among the special guests on Monday when Hot Press cover star Plan B webstreams the launch of his new Ill Manors album. Kick-off is 8pm, don’t be late!
The Dirty 9s commemorate Bruce and the E Street Band’s latest visit to our fair isle with a gorgeous stripped-down version of ‘I’m On Fire’.
Green Day go all 3D with the video for their new ‘Oh Love’ single, which trails ¡Uno! – the first in a trilogy of albums coming out before the end of the year.
The Chemical Brothers take a leaf out of Kraftwerk’s book with ‘Theme From Velodrome’, one of five specially commissioned tunes which will be played in the run up to Olympic medal ceremonies.
Remember the Citizen’s Band? No Doubt do on the promo for their ‘Settle Down’ comeback single. With over 1.7 million hits since Tuesday, we don’t think they’ve been forgotten.
Joining them in the million hits club are The xx who whet appetites for September’s Coexist album – and their Electric Picnic turn – with the sumptuous ‘Angels’.
Jack White comes up trumps again with the promo for ‘Freedom At 21’, which finds him indulging in a different sort of auto eroticism.
Free Music Friday has spent much of this week wallowing in the wonderfulness of Brian Wilson performing his “lost” but now very much found ‘60s classic, Smile.
Ellie Goulding makes us love her even more with this Tinie Tempah-assisted cover of Active Child’s ‘Hanging On’.
And that, sorry to say, is your Free Music Friday lot for another week. Keep those links coming to @stuartclark66 and make those 64 glorious hours of freedom count!