Free Music Friday

Team Hot Press is in training camp this weekend for the Irish Craft Beer & Cider Festival, which kicks off next Thursday in the RDS.
We'll be doing some gentle elbow-bends, a few practice bar-props and generally readying ourselves for the marathon that awaits.
To help us get in the zone, we've assembled another frothy collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers which really hit the spot.
Kacey Musgraves was in superlative form when she dropped by America's NPR, performing a longer than usual set that's available for your free download delectation. Being the day the Supreme Court legalised gay marriage in the States, her LGBT anthem 'Follow Your Arrow' gets a runout alongside tracks from new album Pageant Material.
You can catch the Texan alt. country songstress in the Dublin Academy on November 12.

We're also loving the NPR tunes from Restorations, a Philly trio who look set for some slow burning National/War On Drugs-style success.

Talib Kweli has backed up his recent anti-capitalist statements by giving away the appropriately titled Fuck The Money, a kick-like-a-mule 12-tracker, which can be bagged at http://kweliclub.com/products/talib-kweli-fuck-the-money-digital
[link]www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-observer-mixtape-with-kleptik-7499314[/link] has a nifty mixtape from Kleptik, a Puerto Rican hip hopper who's just pitched up in Dallas, and wasted no time in becoming an integral part of the local urban scene.
Noise Trade offers their usual abundance of quality free tuneage with the pick of the bunch Green River Ordinance, an old school country rock band from Fort Worth, Texas who one suspects have a few Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young albums in their collection; from Cleveland, Ohio come The Lighthouse And The Whaler, a band that go in for big Arcade Fire-esque stadium choruses, and dubby pop hop is the stock in trade of Aer, a Massachusetts duo whose new sampler positively oozes summer.



To the streams now and those busy NPR boys and girls bring us first listens to Beach House, Yo La Tengo, Destroyer, Jack White's supremely soulful mate Ruby Amanfu, country pop duo Maddie & Tae and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, an Icelandic composer who makes wonderfully atmospheric music.





Normally Free Music Friday doesn't encourage this sort of malarkey, but we rather like this thumping EDM makeover of The Who's 'Baba O'Riley'. Just don't be making a habit of it!

Dublin's Bouts are back with 'Missteps', a fuzzy jangle of a pop tune, which has had us smiling all week. It's the first taster from a five-track EP which follows in early 2016.
There's also a geometrically eye-popping video to go with it. No wonder BBC 6's Lauren Laverne is a fan!


Old school hip hop nut that he is, Bitter Rocc couldn't resist giving NWA's 'Straight Outta Compton' a 2015 makeover. We have to say we like what he's done!

Video of the Week by a country mile is the clip for 'Close Up', the new Peaches track, which features Sonic Youth ledge Kim Gordon as Ms. Nisker's wrestling coach. It's the latest taster from her new Rub album, which is out on September 25 and has us in a state of high anticipation!

Delorentos have premiered the lyric video for 'Everybody Else Gets Wet', one of the numerous standouts from their Night Becomes Light album, which whizzes round Dublin at a furious pace. Quality stuff from one of them #brilliantirishbands

Not music, but there's a real rock 'n' roll aesthetic to Legend, which finds Tom Hardy playing both of the Kray Twins. The accompanying 2CD soundtrack includes choice cuts from the likes of Small Faces, The Yardbirds, Georgie Fame and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers plus two new tunes from Duffy who's been out of commission for far too long!

Free Music Friday takes its metaphorical hat – we must get ourselves a real one – off to Scott McFarnon who does an absolutely brilliant job of covering Johnny Cash's 'I Walk The Line'.