When not being mindlessly optimistic about the start of the new Premier League – by 4.47pm on Saturday the realisation will have set in that, sadly, Everton won’t be ‘doing a Leicester’ this season – we’ve scoured the web for the finest selection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers available on a free transfer to your computer.

James Vincent McMorrow has premiered the epic video for ‘Rising Water’, one of the numerous standouts from his We Move album, which drops early next month and will be forensically examined in the next issue of Hot Press. It’s directed by David Helman who’s previously worked with the likes of Joey Bada$$, Skrillex, Glass Animal and Vince Staples.

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One of our favourite Free Music Friday things this week is the new tune from Apella, ‘We Met At A Party’, which is accompanied by an X Factor lampooning video.An absolute pop belter, we reckon it’s the start of something massive for the duo whose singer is none other than former Fox Avenue man Dara Quilty.

Another is ‘City Lights’, a White Stripes-era taster from the Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 album, which drops on September 9. And, yep, it does sound incredibly like Led Zeppelin!

To the streams now and premiering this week on NPR are the latest from US cowpunk sensation Lydia Loveless; ex-Civil Wars man John Paul White whose solo career gets off to the best of Southern folk starts; Black Mother Super Rainbow man Tobacco who’s in full-on psychedelic dance mode; English genre benders Slow Club who went to Virginia to record the gorgeous One Day All This Won’t Matter Anymore and Exploded View, am Anglo-German collaborative project that’s equal parts Throbbing Gristle and The Raveonettes.

Also new from our US National Public Radio friends are these superb Tiny Desk Concerts from country rock legends The Jayhawks and velvet smooth jazzman Gregory Porter.

This week’s tasty Noise Trade treats include a full-length offering from Oslo, an Interpol-loving outfit who are actually from LA; a 2016 US Tour Sampler from The Mountain Goats and Oh Pep! who make for lively rock ‘n’ roll bedfellows, and a short-sharp introduction to Danae, a Nashville songstress who’s more electro than country. They’re free but, as ever, you could be a sweetheart and tip!

Dinosaur Jr. go skateboarding – they’re bloody good! – in the video for their deliciously scuzzy new single, ‘Goin’ Down’. It’s great to see/hear them growing old so disgracefully!

Kerri Chandler is giving away his new Troy Denari-assisted single, ‘The Way It Goes’, which has a delightfully old skool jazz feel.

Beatnick and K-Salaam invite you to name yer’ price for their super-seductive take on Marvin Gaye’s already rampant ‘Sexual Healing’.

The latest [link]adultswim.com/music/singles-2016[/link] giveaway is ‘Haunting, Haunted, Haunts’, a Dropkick Murphys-style Celtic punk stomper from Against Me!

Marilyn Manson gets to chow down on some tasty leaches in the Halloween episode of Salem, which is being teased here. Brian has also confirmed the Valentine’s Day 2017 release of his new album, SAY10, which reminds us of the time we asked him, “Do you have a romantic bone in your body?” and he said, “Yes, between my legs…”

Muppet history was made last weekend when Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem played their first festival gig at San Francisco’s Outside Lands bash. The hard-rocking five-piece, complete with Animal on drums, were joined by gospel choir for an encore version of ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’, which had the beachballs bouncing down the front!

Amazon has released the first footage of Crisis In Six Scenes, Woody Allen’s eagerly awaited foray into TV, which finds him co-starring with Miley Cyrus. Premiering online on September 30, the comedy action “takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle-class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.”

Belle & Sebastian are at their beguiling best on ‘Olympic Village, 6AM’, an alternative Rio anthem, which would have made a great Grandstand theme.

Meanwhile, Chance The Rapper has teamed up with Nike to produce a slowburning chill-out song for the all-star US basketball team.

Warner Brothers has released the first trailer for Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s epic telling of the World War II evacuation story, which hits screens in July 2017. Its staunchly A-List cast includes Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, newcomer Fionn Whitehead and a fella by the name of Harry Styles - hence it qualifying for Free Music Friday!

Massive Attack have premiered another tasty video for ‘The Spoils’, a new track featuring the dulcet tones of Hope Sandoval. Directed by John Hillcoat who’s previously worked with Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and Johnny Cash, it features a morphing Cate Blanchett and is the perfect accompaniment to last week’s self-referencing ‘Come Near Me’ clip. Any fears that the Wild Bunch were trading on former glories have been well and truly allayed…

Not content with bringing us Baz Luhrmann’s ‘70s birth of hip hop series, The Get Down, Netflix come over all EDM with original film XOXO.

And on that banging note, we take our Free Music Friday leave of you for another week. Good luck to Dundalk in their quest to become the first Irish side to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66