With Team Hot Press moving down en masse tomorrow to Indiependence – we cannot wait! – Free Music Friday gets ahead of itself this week and becomes Free Music Thursday. Whether you’re going to Deer Park, Oxegen or Castlepalooza, we trust the assembled tunes will send you off with a smile on your face!
 
Our Dutch pals surpass themselves with new streams from Pond, Moderat, Splashh. The Elwins, Radkey, Cole & Jimmu and, upping the Wu-Tang quotient, Ghostface Killah and U-God which features contributions from Clansters GZA and Method Man and the Republic Of Loose’s old chum Styles P. Check it all out at [link]http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link].

[link]http://pitchfork.com/advance[/link] chip in with The Bug, The Polyphonic Spree, Pop. 1280 and Eric Copeland and [link]http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] has quality sounds from Derrick Hodge, Sam Phillips and Ebony Bones whose immenseness we’re telling you about again in case you missed us slavering over her last week.
 
NPR also have cracking downloads of The National’s buddies Phosphorescent being all kinds of wonderful at the legendary Newport Folk Festival, and Dana Falconberry doing her dreamy nu-folk thing in their offices.
 

 

 
Foy Vance whets appetites for the release of his Joy Of Nothing album with this bonus cut from the sessions, ‘Dark Horse’, that’s unavailable elsewhere.
The Belfast troubadour dropped by HP Towers yesterday for a Storeroom Session that will be airing imminently on this here site. Musical attributes aside, Mr. V is close to knocking Jerry Fish off his twirly moustache throne...

 
Also dropping by HP Towers yesterday were The Establishment, a Nottingham-based outfit whose ranks include former Forest, Bristol City, Carlisle and Shels midfielder John Burns. The footie connections don’t end there with Des Walker, Teddy Sheringham, Les Ferdinand and Stuart Pearce appearing in the vid for their ‘Jennifer Jones’ single and Dion Dublin of Man U, Villa, Cambridge and Coventry fame their manager.
 

 
Grammy-nominated New York rhymer Matisyahu treats fans to the name your price Five7Seven2 Live. The eight-tracker demonstrates the boy Miller’s inspired fusing of rap and reggae with Hebrew and Yiddish music.
 

 
The absurdly prolific Souljah Boy drops another free mixtape, Life After Fame, which contains 19 tracks of gangster-y goodness.
 

 
 Also being a generous chappie is Deadmau5 who’s gifting us ace new track ‘Suckfest-9001’. Cheeky little rodent, isn’t he?
 

 
There’s no let up in the ‘Get Lucky’ remixes with Locos Por Juana and Afro Kumbe giving Daft Punk a Miami Cumbia makeover. We totally approve!
 

 
 
The Olympia-bound Manic Street Preachers – September 20 is the date to stick in your rock ‘n’ roll diary – have come up with a brilliant Phoenix Nights-esque promo for their ‘Show Me The Wonder’ single.
Good to have you back, gents.
 

 
Bobby Gillespie demonstrates his driving skills in the promo for the new Primal Scream single, ‘Invisible City’.
We’re not sure which municipality he’s nocturnally zooming round in his Merc, but it looks like some serious devilment could be gotten up to there. But not by the new clean-living Mr. G!
 

 
 
A mere week after the Lady Gaga-baiting ‘So Legit’ surfaced, another new Lana Del Rey song has made it onto the ‘net.
‘Maha Maha’ has a slightly jazzier feel than usual, and the sort of strings that used to grace ‘60s spy thrillers.
 

 
Cork’s Yearning Curve – they must have been hanging out with the Hot Press  Formation Pun Team! – are giving awayBlonde On The Inside, their deliciously sultry ‘n’ jazzy new EP. Here are our two faves from it.
 

 

 
Villagers have conjured up a well nifty video for their ‘Earthly Pleasures’ single.
The hero of the piece gets to time travel through history wearing nowt but a pair of Persil white apple-catcher underpants.
There are highs (gawping at a generously endowed lady bathing in milk), lows (being shot during a civil war skirmish) and lots of creamy middles. All in all, it’s one hell of a ride!
 

 
 
Ahead of their Blur support tonight – we laugh in the face of tornadoes! – The Strypes have gone live with the vid for their ‘What A Shame’ single.
A cautionary tale of record company woe, it finds the boys throwing all their best early Stones/Who/Small Faces shapes and generally looking like rock stars in the making.
 

 
Still waters run etc. etc. A glorious summer’s afternoon by a millpond Corrib was the setting for our man Olaf Tyaransen chatting to Glen Hansard last week ahead of his Galway Arts Festival appearance? Glen didn’t know at the time of Bruce guest appearances to come, but it’s a fascinating chinwag.
 

 
The video avalanche continues with this trippy little number for Crayonsmith’s ‘Chrysalis’, which trails October 18’s Milk Teethalbum. Not to be watched if you’re driving or operating heavy machinery.
 

And with that we excitedly clamber on the bus for Mitchelstown. Wherever you’re doing your rocking and rolling and dancing this weekend have a blast and keep them links coming to @stuartclark66