Dublin is sunny, the weekend is hurtling inexorably towards us and Free Music Friday is back with another juggernaut-full of tunes for you to luxuriate in. Honestly, life doesn’t get any better!

Gossip, Devin, Cyrk, Beach House, The Cribs, Richard Hawley, Zulu Winter and DZ Deathrays have their albums, all of them well worth an earful, streaming at [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link]

Over at [link]music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/1[/link] there are new releases from Damon Albarn, The Parlotones and the Silversun Pickups to check out plus the Dark Shadows OST.

When not chain-listening to their Give You The Ghost album, we’ve been revelling in the Polica World Café session residing at [link]npr.org/2012/05/10/152430331/polica-on-world-cafe?ps=mh_frhdl2[/link]

You can also download the whole of their recent SXSW show at [link]npr.org/event/music/148530653/polica-live-in-concert-sxsw-2012[/link]

We’re indebted to Los Angeles resident Mr. D. Holmes for telling us about the Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound mix that can be downloaded from [link]soundcloud.com/twitch/optimo-podcast-12-adrian[/link] and will worry even the biggest of bassbins.

There’s more musical exotica at [link]mokolours.bandcamp.com/album/ep2-banana-wine[/link] where the half-Mauritian Mo Kolours is giving away a summery six-pack of tunes.

Also spreading joyous sunny vibes are Guillemots who preview their new eight-tracker at [link]soundcloud.com/guillemots[/link]

Next to [link]soundcloud.com/four-tet/jupiters[/link] where you can check out Four Tet’s brand spanking new ‘Jupiters’; which features a similarly factory fresh Passion Pit tune; and the rather excellent Bjork remix streaming at [link]soundcloud.com/sacksco/bjork-cosmogony-pablo-diaz/s-iMtmE[/link]

We’re no exactly sure why, but Chromatics have made a drumless version of their Kill For Love album available from [link]sendspace.com/file/7c67td[/link]
Actually, we have to say it makes for rather blissful early morning listening.

Animal Collective have returned with a nifty [link]myanimalhome.net[/link] player that allows you to skip through some new tunes.

We weren’t entirely sure that Garbage reforming was a good idea until hearing the [link]spin.com/articles/garbage-exclusive-hear-new-lp-not-your-kind-people-now?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=050812[/link] stream of their Not Your Kind Of People album.

It’s not up yet but we’re promised that [link]npr.org/event/music/152291064/spiritualized-in-concert[/link] will soon be streaming Spiritualized’s visit last night to Washington DC’s 9:30 Club. If it’s not, there will be smacks!

Literally seconds after hearing that he’ll be popping in to the Hot Press Speakeasy @ Forbidden Fruit, we happened upon the Richard Fearless mixtape that can be downloaded from [link]soundcloud.com/death-in-vegas/richard-fearless-8th-of-may-dj?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/death-in-vegas/richard-fearless-8th-of-may-dj[/link]

The Offspring might find the Foo Fighters’ lawyers getting on to them after they check out the [link]soundcloud.com/theoffspringsc/days-go-by[/link] that trails their comeback album. Second-hand or not, it is rather good.

Those most Mancunian of Californian dream poppers, Craft Spells, stream their very Joy Order-ish EP at [link]soundcloud.com/deerlodgefm/sets/craft-spells-gallery-ep[/link]

This week’s video action starts with the promo Hoodie Allen – see what he's done there? – has made for his Marina & The Diamonds-sampling ‘You Are Not A Robot’ smash. Already huge in the States, the NYC rapper makes his Irish bow on June 11 in the Dublin Academy 2.

Gravel-throated at the best of times, Mark Lanegan sounds like he’s been gargling with Brillo pads on his band-assisted 4AD session.

Free Music Friday cannot praise the Community of Independents’ A Joyful Slog documentary highly enough. A look at Ireland’s DIY scene, it features contributions from the likes of Jape, And So I Watch You From Afar and Adebisi Shank and is mandatory viewing for anyone who likes their rock ‘n’ roll straight from the bone.

It cost about 50¢ to make – well, that’s our estimate – but it doesn’t stop the new Cry Monster Cry video being a thing of garden shed-ly beauty.

If the young scamp in the video for Maximo Park’s ‘Hips And Lips’ looks familiar that’s because the mentalist fan in question is This Is England star Thomas Turgoose.

It was “goodbye” this week to Lloyd Brevett, one of the founding fathers of Jamaican legends The Skatalites without whom there probably would have been no Specials, Madness or any other 2-Tone-ry. You will be missed, sir.

Finally, a doff of the Free Music Friday headphones to Adam Yauch who also left us last week and has very much been in our thoughts since.
There are a trillion tributes we could pay to him, but the classic clip below which he directed is perhaps the most apt one. RIP MCA.

And that is your Free Music Friday lot. Here’s hoping it’s a great weekend with no slip-ups at the Etihad or Goodison as both Man City and Everton vie to end their seasons on a high. Keep tweeting those lovely links to @stuartclark66