FREE MUSIC FRIDAY~!

Despite nearly being mugged yesterday in Paris and then having to spend the whole afternoon in Bruce Springsteen’s company – god it’s a hard life! – Free Music Friday is back with a whole slew of fabulous tunes and videos.

Firsrt off, let us direct you to these two Wrecking Ball tunes that Bruce & The E Street Band have already played live.

We’re also loving the promo for the new Jack White single, ‘Love Interruption’.

Normally we spurn Beatles covers like other people spurn rabid dogs, but American newcomer CeCe Teneal has well and truly nailed ‘Eleanor Rigby’.

If you weren’t in the crowd for the Arctic Monkeys’ recent Paris gig, the whole thing can be perused at [link]xfm.co.uk/news/watch-arctic-monkeys-perform-in-paris[/link]

Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary looks like being the dog’s proverbials. Here’s the trailer:

Closer to home, Drogheda industrial noisemakers After The Explosions have contributed a remix of Nine Inch Nails belter 'The Beginning Of The End'. That hugely impressive effort is @ [link]soundcloud.com/after-the-explosions/the-beginning-of-the-end[/link]

Talking of trailers, here’s an appetite-whetter for RTÉ 2’s, if you will, rap-umentary which is airing at 9.30pm on Monday night.

They mightn’t quite have her range but we were rather touched by Girls’ hastily assembled tribute to Whitney Houston last week when they appeared at Singapore’s Laneway Festival.

Ending our bumper crop of vids is the promo for The Dirty 9’s excellent new single, ‘Hey!’

The Cribs preview their forthcoming In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull album with this new track, which is among the most rocking-est things they’ve ever done. That's @ [link]soundcloud.com/wichita-recordings/the-cribs-chi-town[/link]

If you don’t mind signing up to mailing-lists – they promise not to send you penile dysfunction ad drops – you can bag yourself rather lovely freebies from Lawson, Ben Howard, Niki & The Dove, Spector who’ll be in Dublin soon supporting Florence and her Machine and King Charles.

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[link]facebook.com/nikiandthedove?sk=app_190322544333196[/link]

[link]facebook.com/spector?sk=app_204831202926494[/link]

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Fancy a new Cast Of Cheers remix ahead of their Music Show Live Stage appearance next week?

[link]soundcloud.com/thecastofcheers/the-cast-of-cheers-family[/link]

Can’t wait to hear the new Tindersticks, Sleigh Bells and Soap&Skin streams?
Well, they’re all streaming as we speak at [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/#!/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link]

She hasn’t gained a whole lot of traction here yet but San Francisco rapper K. Flay is causing major ructions in the States. Find out why with this free [link]spin.com/articles/first-spin-download-k-flays-eyes-shut-ep-watch-her-tangle-puppets[/link] EP

Those lovely Spin people are also streaming the Band Of Skulls album at [link]spin.com/articles/band-skulls-break-down-sweet-sour-full-album-stream[/link]

There’s more hot streaming action at [link]www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] where you can hear the new Sinéad O’Connor and Grimes albums and at [link]guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/feb/13/perfume-genius-back-album-stream?CMP=twt_gu[/link] where Perfume Genius is holding court.

Andrew WK is Dublin-bound – yay! – and has a new tune, available for your listening pleasure at [link]noisecreep.com/2012/02/10/andrew-w-k-my-time-song[/link]

Also appearing at The Music Show in the RDS next weekend is former Beautiful South lady Brianna Corrigan who is in free download mode at [link]brianacorrigan.bandcamp.com/track/13-wonderful-love-songs[/link]

Next to [link]guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/feb/15/february-music-across-map?newsfeed=true[/link] where you can check out 36 songs from around the globe as selected by The Guardian and the Music Alliance Pact.

Finally to [link]foknbois.bandcamp.com/releases[/link] where you can check out Ghana’s answer to the Rubberbandits, FOKN Bois. Their free download album includes the masterful ‘Thank God We’re Not A Nigerians’.

That’s it for this week. Make sure to send all your lovely links to @stuartclark66