MIA, Margaret Glaspy, Tom Petty, Foy Vance & Animal Collective star in Free Music Friday

When not slathering on the Factor 30 this week – don’t want to be spoiling our peaches ‘n’ cream complexion – Free Music Friday has been gathering together another red hot collection of downloads, links, streams, vids and trailers which you could fry an egg on in this weather.

On tour recently with Lucius, New York fuzzbox merchant Margaret Glaspy provides a compelling three-song introduction to her Emotions And Math album.

Also new and tasty from our Noise Trade pals are offerings from Athens, Georgia quirk-popper Ruby The Rabbit Foot, and Matthew Mayfield, an Edie Vedder-loving Alabaman who bashes out a mean ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ on his acoustic.

To the streams now and NPR has exclusive first dibs on the new records from Nashville stunner Lori McKenna and hotshot Seattle rappers Sango and Dave B.
There's also a compilation of Los Angeles alt. Latino acts, which one imagines would be very much to Morrissey's liking.

Sean Penn has directed the video accompaniment to ‘I Forgive It All’, the new single from Tom Petty who’s reconvened with his pre-Heartbreakers band, Mudcrutch.
And, yes, that is Anthony Hopkins walking the mean streets.

Ace Hawaiian rapper Mr. Carmack is giving away a whopping 54 tunes, so go fill your digital boots.

Royal Trux, Siler Jews, The Frogs, Pavement, Beck, Guided By Voices and Neil Hamburger are among the diverse range of acts featuring on the [link]mixcloud.com/GalaxyMyDear/galaxy-my-dear-56-july-19-2016-w-animal-collective-guest-mix[/link] mix that Animal Collective assembled for a Portland radio station. The dexterous fader-play starts 30 minutes in.

Sting has issued a teaser trailer for 57th & 9th, his self-styled “first rock album” in 13 years, which drops on November 11.

The 1994 collaboration between µ–Ziq and Aphex Twin, who were operating as Mike & Rich at the time, is to get a Planet Mu re-issue this summer. To whet appetites, they’re sharing ‘11 Vodka (Mix 2)’ which was left off the original Expert Knob Twiddlers album. For those old enough to remember them there’s a limited-edition cassette version.

Adult Swim’s 25 Weeks Of Free Music continues with an absolute stormer from Blanck Mass. AKA Fuck Buttons’ moonlighting Benjamin John Power. Bag yourself a copy at [link]adultswim.com/music/singles-2016[/link]

Also gifting adultswim.com/music/singles-2016 us new tuneage are French duo Justice whose ‘Safe And Sound’ single is yours for the [link]justice.church[/link] taking.

Sweet sounding San Franciscans The Saxophones are letting you name your price for the digital version of their If You’re On The Water EP, which is also available as an extremely limited-edition lathe-cut vinyl 8”.

From further down the Californian coast comes Jeff Rosenstock whose lively ‘Festival Song’ sounds like a Wurlitzer Weezer.

The Avalanches’ fabulous, if extremely overdue, Wildflower album is previewing in 30-second chunks at [link]amazon.fr/WildflowerExplicitAvalanches/dp/B01GIBSU6A/ref=sr_1_1/277-4169057-9966524?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1465344563&sr=1-1-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=the%20avalanches%20-%20wildflower[/link]

Foy Vance is on 170,000 – and rising! – views of his ‘Coco’ single, which is doing especially well in the States.

Quickly hitting a million views is ‘Go Off’, the new promo from MIA who was replaced by Grace Jones as the Afropunk London headliner this week after making controversial Black Lives Matter remarks.

We are loving the new tune and vid from Mathman and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, which positively screams “summer!”

The first taster has emerged of the collaboration between punk poet John Cooper Clarke and former Stranglers man Hugh Cornwell. It’s a Salford-ian take on ‘MacArthur Park’.

It seems appropriate then that our RetroVid of the Week comes from the aforementioned Men In Black whose blissed-out ‘Always The Sun’ always puts a smile on our faces.

The always top notch Denis McCalmont Band are letting you try their new album, The Joys Of Modern Life, before you buy.

It’s not music, but seeing as their product goes up so many rock ‘n’ roll noses, here’s the Netflix trailer for Season 2 of Narcos.

Which is where the Free Music Friday hook is slung for another week. Keep those links coming to @stuartclark66 and enjoy the sunshine while it lasts…