Amanda Palmer & her dad, Die Antwoord, Anderson and Coldplay star in Free Music Friday

Despite being on Bruce Springsteen lockdown – wait ‘til you see next week’s Boss-tastic new issue of Hot Press! – Free Music Friday has still managed to assemble a spirit-bolstering collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers that will place zero pressure on your finances.

Our favourite FMF thing this week is Suck On This: Pre-Candy Mixtape, a suitably berserk collection from South African rap duo Die Antwoord. Dita Von Teese and Cyprus Hill’s DJ Muggs are among those lending a hand.

We’re also loving this take on Richard Thompson’s ‘1952 Vincent Black Lightning’, which adorns the upcoming covers album from Amanda Palmer and her seriously cool dad, Jack.

Anderson delivers big time again with the video for ‘The Existential Vacuum’, the latest single to be lifted from his Patterns album.
Featuring a cameo from TV3’s Martin King and a fanboy nod to Futurama, it’s directed by Eyebrowy man Colm Russell who also made the ‘Door To Door Sales Will Save The Music Industry’ film for the Dublin troubadour that went viral last year.

Chairlift, Moon Taxi, A$AP Mob, Fitz & The Tantrums and Flogging Molly star on the bumper 41-track appetite-whetter for this year’s Firefly festival in Dover, Delaware.
It’s free but they’ll give you a big virtual hug if you tip! We’ll give you a big real hug if you stump up the €650 we need to fly over for the three-dayer.

To the streams now and Toronto punks PUP, Big Thief and the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Shostakovich – who says we ain’t cultural? – are this week’s NPR debutantes.

You’ve a limited amount of time to bag yourself Reflections 2012-2016, an amply proportioned mixtape from Joey Bada$$’s Californian pal Lee Bannon who’s resisted the temptation to call himself Dead Lee Intent or something similar.

Apple Music bagged themselves the world premiere of ‘Love + War’, the first fruits of the hook up between Interpol’s Paul Banks and RZA. We have to say we’re impressed…

Father John Misty surprised everybody this week with ‘Real Love Baby’, a little summer something that won’t be featuring on his next album.

It’s a Free Music Friday “howaya” to Unity Floors, a New South Wales duo who have a bit – actually, make that a lot! – of a Velvet Underground fixation. Which is no bad thing!

Joey Purp has shared ‘Girls’, a frolicsome collaboration with Chance The Rapper that features on his upcoming iiiDrops collection.

Róisín Murphy has made a sunny week even brighter with the fab video for ‘Ten Miles High’, which trails the July 8 release of new album Take Her Up To Monto.

The new Mëtal Obsëssion documentary visits five countries to meet the most obsessive of the genre’s vinyl collectors. Amazingly, there’s one person in the trailer who’s not head to toe dressed in black.

KEXP Seattle treat their listeners to studio sessions from an even funkier than usual Poliça and The Dandy Warhols who do the louche rock thing better than most.

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Coldplay have unveiled the surreal video for ‘Up & Up’. Racehorses galloping on water, a popcorn-spouting volcano and pasta bowl skydivers are just some of the sites that await in the promo, which was created by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia.

The quality Irish videos keep on coming with this haunting clip for Lisa O’Neill’s ‘Gormlaith’s Grieving’, which is the work of director Jamie Goldrick.

Bruce Springsteen’s mate Willie Nile has debuted this live performance clip for ‘When Levon Sings’, the second single from his ace World War Willie album.

And that ladies, gentleman, boys and girls is it for another Free Music Friday. Have as much fun as it’s legally possible to have over the weekend and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66