FREE MUSIC WEDNESDAY

With Free Music Friday having to attend to business elsewhere this weekend’s eve, we thought we’d take you unawares and treat you to special Leap Year Free Music Wednesday.

Kicking us off we have some hot video action from Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and James Murphy whose ‘DoYaThing’ promo is every bit as wondrous as the collaborative tune it soundtracks. Check it out at [link]play.converse.com/blog/2012/02/23/doyathing[/link]

You can also cop a first listen to Damon Albarn and Flea’s new supergroup at [link]soundcloud.com/myblogcliche/rocket-juice-and-the-moon-hey[/link]

We told you last week about The Enemy’s rocking new ‘Gimme The Sign’ download single, now you can feast on the accompanying video.

Not to be outdone by Mr. Albarn, Graham Coxon got 85 fans from 22 countries to compile the ingenious promo for his ‘What It’ll Take’ 45 – we refuse to give up on the old technology!

They may live to regret it but Adult Swim have given the Odd Future posse their own equal parts Jackass/In Living Color/Tiswas comedy show, which receives its interweb premiere on March 25. Of course, you don’t have to wait that long for a gander…

Slash has been documenting the making of his new Apocalyptic Love album with these “in the studio” webisodes, number five of which has just been unleashed.

As you may be aware, our Mr. Clark has rather hysterically been counting down to the release of Brooooce’s new Wrecking Ball album. Hence him drooling over this E Street Band-assisted version of ‘We Take Care Of Our Own’ on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. There's more – lot's more! – on The Boss in the next super soar-away edition of Hot Press.

Ahead of their much-anticipated Whelan’s debut, we thought you might to see WU LYF giving it maximum sockage on Letterman from last month – and then taking considerable umbrage when Dave laughs at their drummer.

To celebrate her AMAZING Music Show appearance last week, let us direct you to [link]themahoganyblog.com/2012/02/lisa-hannigan-mahogany-session/comment-page-1/#comment-280111[/link] where Lisa plays three gorgeous tunes on her tiny guitar.

For all the tens of thousands of FMF-ers who’ve been clamouring for an underground Kenyan reggae mixtape, here you go: [link]rawmusicinternational.bandcamp.com[/link]
Nifty, eh?

Normally we spurn The Daily Toryograph – see what we did there? – like other people spurn rabid dogs, but we have to take our metaphorical hat of to them for the [link]telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/9108771/Pink-Floyds-The-Wall-exclusive-listen-to-a-previously-unreleased-early-demo.html[/link] prog rarities.

Our day started wonderfully with the arrival in our inbox of We Are Augustines’ debut Rise Ye Sunken Ships album. Visit [link]weareaugustines.com/free[/link] for an appetite-whetter.

[link]johnmayer.com/tour[/link] is where to go if you want to check out the new John Mayer single and [link]soundcloud.com/time4planb/ill-manors[/link] has Plan B going back to his geezer rap roots. What recent converts will make of it we’re not sure, but the FMF team reckon it’s ace.

Ms. Diamindis’ is giving away a free tune in return for signing up to her [link]marinaandthediamonds.com[/link] mailing-list. Which given ‘Homewrecker’s immense lushness is a top deal.

It’s been a while since we treated you to a free mixtape, so take a bow Snoop’s bezzie Bad Nuze who has a little summat for you at [link]www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9233142.htm[/link]

To the streams: Bowerbirds’ latest can be found at [link]stereogum.com/960882/stream-bowerbirds-the-clearing-stereogum-exclusive/mp3s[/link] while veteran rockers UFO show they’ve still got what it takes to make heads – and other body parts – bang at [link]eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/433623/pid/400512[/link]

In the battle of the radio stations, Holland’s [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/albums.html[/link] have Cloud Nothings, School Of Seven Bells, The Doors, Half Way Station and Beth Jeans Houghton for your aural delectation while America’s [link]npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] offers up Andrew Bird, Magnetic Fields, Julia Holter and White Rabbits first-listens.

We know little of American newcomers Geographer but after hearing their [link]pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/02/album-stream-geographer--myth.html[/link] album stream will rectify that at our earliest possible convenience.

Uneasy listening fans should proceed to [link]cmdistro.de[/link] where Napalm Death provide the soundtrack to the impending apocalypse.

To celebrate their return from five years in the wilderness, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard are gifting fans four free live tunes at [link]deadcandance.com[/link]

There’s some quality bleepy weirdness to be had from Yeti Lane at [link]thequietus.com/articles/08095-yeti-lane-the-echo-show-stream[/link] and a first taster of the Noel Gallagher/Amorphous Androgynous collaboration, which is pretty out there too.

We’re very taken with the new Bouts single, ‘Get Sick’, which is available for streaming – and buying purposes – at [link]gimmebouts.com[/link]
Whilst there you’ll also find details of their upcoming visits to Galway, Dublin, Limerick, Cork and that most notorious of rock ‘n’ roll hotspots, Monaghan.

Artic Monkeys have surprised us all by coming up with a new stand-alone single, ‘R U Mine’, which can be seen and heard at [link]arcticmonkeys.com[/link]
The pleasantly plump chap doing the intro-ing is ex-Pistol Steve Jones whose Jonesy’s Jukebox radio show is legendary in LA rock circles.

Tenonsaw, who hail from “the badlands near Ireland’s south coast” have made their ‘ASKOF’/‘Sweet Little Mystery’ double A-sider available for free [link]musicbytenonsaw.com/releases[/link] download.
It’s another sweet electrop treat, which we’re finding impossible to resist.

In one of the year’s most unlikely hook-ups so far, Norah Jones gets down and dirty-ish with Modest Mouse at [link]soundcloud.com/norahjonesofficial/happy-pills[/link] while [link]soundcloud.com/gold-panda/thailand-chord-droner[/link] features a Gold Panda work-in-progress that has split the FMF vote.

Next to [link]newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2012/02/todd-sniders-agnostic-hymns-and-stoner-fables.html[/link] where you can hear a full stream of Todd Snider’s new and Exile On Main Street-esque Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables album.

We leave you this week with the Jeremy Kyle-tastic video for Delorentos’ ‘Right To Know’. Remember to send all your lovely links for next week’s Free Music (Actually On A) Friday to @stuartclark66
And come on the Boys In Green/Stuart Pearce’s Lions!