The Last Shadow Puppets, Dylan Tighe, Ciaran Lavery & Johnny Marr star in Free Music Friday

While Free Music Friday is currently in the ancient city of Nîmes on a Jean Michel Jarre related mission – all will be revealed very shortly! – we’ve assembled another vraiment magnifique collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers for your post-Bastille Day listening pleasure.

Dylan Tighe is very kindly gifting us ‘Never That Simple’, his new single, which is described as “a wry two fingers of defiance to life's hard knocks and a resolve to follow the heart towards liberation.” We hear you, brother!

Our Noise Trade friends are keen for you to make the acquaintance of LA’s Robbery Inc who make a big Royal Blood-ian noise; Atlanta’s Big Jesus who are also of the everything louder than everything else persuasion and Aaron Lee Tasjan, a Nashville dude who proclaims that “the trouble with alcohol is that it ain’t no trouble at all.” No surprise then that he sounds like the young Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson out on the tear together.

Adult Swim continue their 25 Weeks Of Free Music giveaway with ‘Wait’, a deliciously understated tune from Ryan Hemsworth and special guests Keaton Henson and Mitski. Get it while it’s hot from [link]adultswim.com/music/singles-2016[/link]

Money, Hoes And Flows is the understated title of the surprise new mixtape from Fetty Wrap and PNB Rock.
[link]datpiff.com/Fetty-Wap-x-PNB-Rock-Money-Hoes-Flows-mixtape.793753.html?utm_campaign=piff.me&utm_source=https://t.co/TW7FItAkzV&utm_medium=piff.me[/link] will point you in the direction of the app it’s available from.

Wiz Khalifa’s pal Juicy J has been getting justifiably rave reviews for his Lit In Ceylon mix, which takes zero prisoners.

Self-proclaimed dream fuzz merchants Shark Dreams are giving away their EZPZ four-tracker at [link]soundcloud.com/stealthistrack/shark-dreams-ezpz[/link]
It does indeed have a lazy, hazy summer feel, which has us all blissed-out in HP Towers.

We are loving the version of ‘Blood Red First’, which HP fave Ciaran Lavery treated France’s Le Bruit des Graviers website to. The session archive also includes some acoustic pop goodness from Lucius, I Have A Tribe, Jamie Lawson and some really cool Gallic artists we’re hearing and seeing for the first time.

Raglans return to the fray with rocking new single, ‘Who Knows’, which drops today and is accompanied by an equally hard-hitting rehearsal room vid.

Hilary Woods has conjured up another gloriously atmospheric video for ‘Sabbath’ in tandem with director Sandy Kennedy. Reckoned by Richie Egan to be “one of my favourite songs ever”, it features on the limited-edition Heartbox 7” that’s available from [link]musicglue.com/hilary-woods/shop[/link]

Those lovely Twin Atlantic boys have sent us the promo for their new ‘No Sleep’ single, which will get a live blast on December 10 when the Glaswegians play the Dublin Academy.

We're indebted to regular Free Music Friday peruser, Angie Khan, for alerting us to Sarah Blasko's stunning Aussie radio cover of 'Life On Mars?'

From the same deep well comes Art vs Science doing wondrous dance punk things to Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'.

Brooklyn MC DefLon Sallahr’s awesome ‘Caper Chase’ is yours for the [link]gammaproforma.com/index.php/ecwid#!/DEFLON-SALLAHR-CAPER-CHASE-FREE-MP3/p/68673297/category=758346[/link] taking.

The Last Shadow Puppets fans got extra bang for their buck this week in Manchester’s Castlefield Arena when Johnny Marr joined Messrs. – and, indeed, occasional messers – Turner and Kane for run throughs of The Smiths’ ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me’ and The Fall’s ‘Totally Wired’. We have to say we’re dead impressed with Miles’ Mark E. Smith impersonation! Cop an eyeful on hotpress.com.

Alice Cooper, Thurston Moore and MC5 man Wayne Kramer all contribute to Boy Howdy! The Story Of CREEM Magazine, which has almost reached its Kickstarter target. Launched in 1969 as a hipper alternative to Rolling Stone, its Senior Editor was the flawed but brilliant Lester Bangs who left no rampant rock star ego un-deflated.

Finally, to celebrate the awesomeness of his Festival de Nîmes set last night, here's some Jean Michel Jarre both old and new...

And that mes petits chéris is where Free Music Friday must leave you for another week. Feel free to bombard is with your links @stuartclark66