Free Music Friday is in top Irish Craft Beer & Cider Festival form this week, with yesterday's opening session a fine taster of the frothy fun to come. If you're RDS-bound, make sure to catch our Hop Press talks and sign-up for the chance to win the mother of all craft beer hampers.
Tastebuds taken care of, we've another quality Free Music Friday array of downloads, streams, vids and trailers to take care of your lugholes.

Whilst unable, alas, to make it to Franklin, Tennessee next month for the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, we will be playing to death the free appetite whetter which includes choice cuts from Wilco, Iron & Wine, Lucius, Better Than Ezra, Trampled By Turtles, Holly Williams, Neko Case and lots more.

The Electric Picnic-bound Son Lux recruited some off-duty horn players from the US Marine Band for his NPR Tiny Desk session last week. Ryan Lott was in top avant pop form as he showcased his fourth album, Bones. If you've yet to hear him sing, you're in for a real treat! Catch the Denverite live in Stradbally on the Sunday.

Also dropping by the NPR offices recently was Caroline Rose, a Burlington, Vermont resident who brings a real freshness to her brand of rockabilly. We suspect that she's outrageously good live.

To the streams now and them busy NPR people have newbies from Dam-Funk who lives up to his name and then some; moonlighting Foxygen man Shaun Fleming who's operating glamtastically as Diane Coffee; Lou Barlow who's in stripped down acoustic mode and old timey Kentucky folk singer Joan Shelley.

Fresh from supporting Ed Sheeran in Croker - if he was phased by performing to 80,000 people it didn't show - Jamie Lawson has premiered the video for his 'Wasn't Expecting That' single, which has already dented the top 10 in New Zealand and Australia.
"I very rarely get emotional over a track, but that song stopped me dead," enthuses Mr. Sheeran who's made the Plymouth singer-songwriter the first signing to his Gingerbread label.
As revealed at the Croke Park press conference hosted by our man Stuart Clark, Jamie spent a year living just down the road from the GAA headquarters and was a regular in Whelan's where he got to know Glen, Gavin, Lisa and the rest of the gang.

We spent a goodly part of the week watching highlights from Lowlands, the Dutch blowout which we're going to have to get our asses to one of these years. Courtney Barnett, Bastille, Years & Years and Echosmith were among those putting in stellar performances.

Years & Years - Live at Lowlands Festival (2015) by yyfan

John Lydon has conjured up a 'making of' video to accompany the release of 'Double Trouble', the lead single from his What The World Needs Now album, which drops on September 4. A punky, funky, dubby delight, it proves that there's plenty of life in the old dog yet.

The mighty Mot?rhead are previewing five of the tracks from their new album, Bad Magic. We're pleased to report that the rock 'n' roll noise Lemmy & Co. are making is as fearsome as ever. The band's 22nd studio outing climaxes with an ace cover of the Stones' 'Sympathy For The Devil'.

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It was serious power trio time last night when Beck and St. Vincent and her new hair joined Taylor Swift on stage in LA's Staples Center for a rocking rendition of Mr. Hansen's dreams.
"Getting to play 'Dreams' with Beck and St. Vincent is something I'll remember forever," Taylor tweeted afterwards. "I can't even express it!"

Foo Fighters' long history of bating the Westboro Baptist Church continued at the weekend when they Rick Rolled the deeply horrible Phelps family. We're loving the arse-wiggling gentleman in the neon jocks!

We're also liking the look of Kill Your Friends, a jet black comedy focusing on a Britpop-era A&R man who goes to extremes in order to find his next hit. Plan B's mate Ed Skrein, X-Men: Days Of Future bit-parter Nicholas Hoult and the wonderful Rosanna Arquette star in the big screen adaptation of John Niven's 2008 novel.
Meanwhile, the film set against the backdrop of Stone Roses' legendary 1990 Widnes gig, Spike Island, has just made its Netflix bow.

The Courtney Cox-directed video for Kodaline's 'Love Will Set You Free' has finally made its online debut. The epic ballad was co-written by Courtney's Snow Patrol fiancé Johnny McDaid and was shot in her Malibu Beach house.
"When Johnny first played me 'Love Will Set You Free,' I was blown away," she tells People magazine. "The song is incredibly beautiful. After hanging out with the guys and getting to know their personalities, I knew I wanted to direct this video and really showcase who they are as individuals and as musicians."
"She's really nice and down to earth," Steve Garrigan says of their A-List celebrity admirer. "Their house is in Malibu; it's pretty swanky and has its own private beach and stuff. It's funny, we went from a studio in County Leitrim straight to Malibu where it was 25 degrees!"

Rod Stewart, Miguel and Mark Ronson are the somewhat unlikely guests on the video for the new
A$AP Rocky single, 'Everyday'. Described as a "hip hop Hollywood story", it's very much the sum of its parts with a gone to seed future Rocky succumbing to the plastic surgeon's knife and cruising down Sunset with his latest, ahem, bitch.
The New Yorker is currently on US tour with Tyler, The Creator, another man unbothered by political correctness.

And that's your Beer Music Fri..., sorry, Free Music Friday lot for another week. If you're RDS-bound ours is a Rhubarb & Strawberry Curim O'Hara's, thanks, otherwise have a fantastic weekend and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66