Free Music Friday

Said snazzy Hawaiians purchased, we’ve also assembled another sunkissed summer soundtrack for your listening pleasure. Watch out for our pasty white legs in Marlay Park...
 
Unveiled last week as the headlining turn at the Fighting With Wire-curated Cut The Transmission festival in Derry on September 28, Frank Turner dropped by America’s National Public Radio last week where he performed this fabulous – and downloadable – acoustic set.
 

 
NPR also have a fab download concert from Olafur Arnalds – a relation of our Mr. Tyaransen’s? – the Icelandic producer and multi-instrumentalist who brings 28 of his closest orchestral friends with him.
 

 
[link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] kicks off the week’s streaming action with new albums from David Lynch, Maps, Fuck Buttons, True Widow, Thee Oh Sees, Hebronix, Pet Shop Boys, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, The Octopus Projecty, Heavy Times, Glass Eyes and Houndstooth awaiting your aural scrutiny; Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Weekend and Ka await at [link]www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] and [link]pitchfork.com/advance[/link] has goodies from Gogol Bordello, Jackson Scott, Morne, Mean Lady and True Window but only for a few days!
 
Belfast’s Kowalski have made their debut For The Love Of Letting Go album available as a ‘name your price’ jobbie. A joyous collection of Prefab Sprout-ish pop, we wouldn’t be leaving anything less than a tenner…
 

 
One of our favourite Nashville, TN residents Caitlin Rose treats us to a live EP, Eastside Manor, which “re-imagines” five of the songs from her current The Stand-In album.
 

 
The Noise Trade peeps also come up trumps with a 10-track Anti Records sampler that includes Neko Case, Calexico, The Milk Carton Kids, Sean Rowe, Beth Orton and Tom Waits & Keith Richards among its bounteous delights.
 

 
The seriously diva-tastic, soulful and Electric Picnic-bound Lulu James gifts fans a gorgeous acoustic version of live favourite ‘Be Safe’ at [link]besafe.pushexp.com/welcome[/link] while a free five-tracker from self-professed “greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world” Supersuckers is yours for the price of giving [link]www.acetate.com[/link] your email address.
 
It’s a Free Music Friday first with DJ Tarantino presiding over the [link]indy.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/22477/trappin-outta-russia.html[/link] download mix of Russia’s finest ‘trappin’’ talent. The quality control’s a bit erratic, but the good bits are ace!
 

 
The Vaccines come over all West Coast – California as opposed to Kerry – on ‘Melody Calling’, the first track from the EP of the same name that drops on August 12.
It’s a dead sonic giveaway with the recording taking place in March when the chaps spent time in LA’s Eldorado Studios.
Indie purists will probably shout “sell-out!” but we rather like the chilled new direction.
 

 
To celebrate its first birthday, The Casanova Wave, AKA Waterford native Brian McCartan, is making his Joy Of Being album available as a name yer price download. The two bonus tracks find him remixing Trophy Boyfriend and – real marriage made in musical heaven – Solar Taxi.
 

 
Fat Freddy’s Drop are giving away Blackbird album standout ‘Clean The House’, which is accompanied by a fabulous puppet video.
 

 

 
A Free Music Friday leg has also been shaken this week to ‘Now Is The Time’, pne of the standouts from Nightmares On Wax’s Feelin’ Good, which will be with us in September.
 

 
 
Mazzy Star trail September’s Seasons Of Your Day with the – go on, guess – ethereal sounding ‘California’.
 

 
Klaxons manage to weave The Black Madonna, Ajello, Niles Philips, Aiden Tyrell and Headman into their niftyAcid Disko Mix.
 

 
The Belief take a stroll through the Phoenix Park on the vid for their ‘Rear View Mirror’ single. A tasty tune it is too!
 

 
Also on album appetite-whetting duty are Kings Of Leon who go back to their southern Youth And Young Manhood roots on ‘Supersoaker’, the first jangly taster from Mechanical Bull, which drops here on September 20.
 

 
Kieran Hebden, AKA Four Tet, has made his remix of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Suit & Tie’ available for gratis. It’s a funky little devil, which suggests that an out and out JT techno album is definitely in order!
[link]www.sendspace.com/file/pirsdd[/link] download.
 

 
 
Billy Bragg, Frank Turner, Tom Odell, Ghostpoet and those lovable Cavan scamps The Strypes star in a new short that documents this year’s Record Store Day celebrations in the UK.

“Christmas for nerds,” is how one vinyl junkie succinctly sums up the 7” and 12” buying frenzy.
Roll on next year!
 

 
And with that Free Music Friday hits the “shut down” button and heads to Marlay Park for what should be three days of fine al fresco entertainment. Keep those links and comments coming to @stuartclark66