Yes, yes, we know it’s Monday but an almost fatal outbreak of man flu rendering us weak as kittens meant it wasn’t possible to bring you Free Music Friday before the weekend.

We’ve now heroically risen from our sickbeds and kick off our latest orgy of freebieness with Aleister X’s Black Skull Music Mixtape Vol. 1, which resides at [link]aleisterx.bandcamp.com[/link]

A completely bonkers affair that features Andrew WK as his co-conspirator, the X-man samples Bob Dylan, The Eagles and Neil Hamburger along the way.
Talking of the boy Wilkes Krier, let us point you in the direction of two must-watch videos of his:

Our favourite pharmaceutically-inclined South Londoners Alabama 3 trail their Shoplifting 4 Jesus album with the fab ‘Facebook.Con’, which can be found at [link]soundcloud.com/alabama-3-1/09-facebook-con[/link]
See Music News for details of their pop-up acoustic show in Kilmainham.

Forget the pyramids and Pippa O’Connor and Brian Ormond getting their own telly show, one of life’s greatest mysteries is why Tuung aren’t as big as their fellow nu folkies Mumford & Sons and Noah & The Whale. Two of the standouts from their This Is Tuung… Live From The BBC album are streaming at [link]soundcloud.com/fulltimehobby/sets/this-is-tunng-live-from-the-1[/link]

Bah humbug merchants should go immediately to [link]soundcloud.com/pias/gruff-rhys-slashed-wrists-this/s-m9afk[/link] where the Super Furry Animal offers up a taster from his Atheist Xmas EP.

Ahead of the mooted Drake, Florence and The xx collaboration, Ms. Welsh covers ‘Take Care’ at [link]www.covermesongs.com/MP3s/News1111/28TakeCare.mp3[/link] for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Sometimes we can be a little slow! Sweet Jane’s gorgeous cover of The Moody Blues’ ‘Nights In White Satin’ has been loitering with intent at [link]soundcloud.com/sweet-jane-free-music/sweet-jane-nights-in-white-satin[/link] for almost a year but we’ve only just discovered it.

Would a new 7 min 34 sec epic from Of Montreal... greatly enhance your quality of life? It would? Fantastic because ‘Wintered Debts’ is awaiting free download now at [link]www.ofmontreal.net/wintered-debts[/link]

Superchunk, Lambchop, Stephin Merritt, Eleanor Friedberger and The Mountain Goats are among the very fine acts appearing on the equally fine [link]www.mergerecords.com/wintersampler[/link]

Haven’t got time to listen to all of the awesome Drive soundtrack? Let us help you with the [link]soundcloud.com/recordmakers/sets/drive-original-motion-picture[/link] redux. Our fave is Kavinsky’s Lovefoxxx-assisted ‘Nightcall’.

Adult Rock from Newbridge have a veritable treasure trove of tracks available for free [link]soundcloud.com/adultrock[/link] download. The most recent, ‘Ripe Ripe’, is an absolute floorfilling belter.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a spot of Michael Jackson grave-robbing, which this time comes courtesy of Le Cirque du Soleil and their new Wacko show which has been cleaning up Stateside. Listen to the accompanying album at [link]www.npr.org/2011/11/16/142418013/first-listen-michael-jackson-immortal[/link]

Cabaret Voltaire man Richard H. Kirk is back to reclaim his avant electro throne. Check out his new collaborative project with Sheffield’s DJ Parrot at [link]www.npr.org/2011/11/20/142518730/first-listen-sweet-exorcist-retroactivity[/link]

Getting his free thing on this week is Owensie whose I Saw The Flashing Lights – Aliens Remixes album is available from [link]owensie.bandcamp.com[/link] and includes Sacred Animals, Bantum, Adebisi Shanks’ Lar Kaye, Tony Kaar and Sertone among its contributors.

Two Door Cinema Club get an ace dubstep makeover at [link]www.covermesongs.com/MP3s/News1111/22WhatYouKnow.mp3[/link]

The tunes Rufus Wainwright, Marianne Faithful, Shane MacGowan, Iggy Pop, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have recorded for the Serge Gainsbourg tribute album can be earwigged at [link]bit.ly/tFBJYW[/link]

Almost time to go and neck another packet of Uniflu but before we do let us point you in the direction of [link]www.facebook.com/TimeIsAThief[/link] where you can you download the Cork rocker’s excellent ‘Holding The Gun (Glitch Remix)’. We’re expecting big Biffy Clyro-esque things from them in 2012!

Free Music Friday and its bastard Free Music Monday offspring prides itself on being National-tastic but, shockingly, we cannot find a single outtake, live version or cover for you this week. We promise to do better next time… If you want in on the act yourself tweet links to @stuartclark66