As the “Did Ian Brown’s cat-strangling ruin last night’s Roses gig?” debate rages, Free Music Friday has come up with an extra special selection of tuneage for your weekend – and far beyond – listening pleasure.
 
Our journey starts as it often does over at 3voor12, where Dirty Projectors, Dusted, Dayba Kurtz, Sonny & The Sunsets, Shonen Knife, Lianne La Havas, Delicate Steve, Digitalism and BEAK, the new outfit featuring Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, all have new albums a-streaming. Check them out here.
 
[link]http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1[/link] adds The Amazing Spider-Man OST, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter OST, the rapper Prodigy, Rhonda Vincent, Dub Pistols and The Answer to the mix while [link]http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/1[/link] is home to Dan Le Sac, Maximo Park, Teenage Bottlerocket, Joshua Hyslop and Stevie Jackson streams.
 
Next to Newton Faulkner – a serious rival to Dave Grohl in the Nicest Man In Rock stakes – who subjected himself to a hotpress.com interview and acoustic session yesterday afternoon in The Workman Club's new Vintage Room. The resulting footage should be with you by lunchtime.
His very fine Write It On Your Skin album is also streaming at [link]http://www.nme.com/news/newton-faulkner/64701[/link].
 
There’s quality mixtape-ry to be had at [link]http://prettymuchamazing.com/mp3/download-childish-gambino-royalty-mixtape[/link] courtesy of Childish Gambino who throws Ghostface Killah, RZA, Beck and, er, Tina Fey into the fray; Eminem’s bezzie Yeawolf does himself similarly proud at [link]http://www.livemixtapes.com/download/17810/yelawolf_m16_heart_of_dixie.html[/link]; and Goyte and Busta Rhymes feature on Akon's [link]http://www.ballerstatus.com/2012/06/30/free-download-akon-konkrete-jungle-mixtape/#.T_CLjMxoqFE[/link] offering.
 
Free Music Friday is delighted to meet the acquaintance of The Sufis, Nashville’s finest purveyors of psychedelic garage rock whose album has been picked up on this side of the Atlantic by Cornershop’s Ample Play label.
 

 
Apart from being deadly, what do Joanna Newsom, They Might Be Giants, Iggy & Joe Jackson and The Raveonettes have in common? They all have free tracks that can be downloaded from [link]http://www.flavorwire.com/304614/10-mp3s-you-need-to-download-for-free-this-week-joanna-newsom-joe-jackson-and-iggy-pop[/link]
 
We shouldn’t really have favourites, but the [link]http://soundcloud.com/massive-attack-2/nas-vs-massive-attack[/link] meeting of Massive Attack and Nas is one of the best things ever to grace Free Music Friday. What we want, nay, demand now is a new Wild Bunch album.
 
 
‘Do You Wanna Dance’, ‘Coming Around Again’, ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ and ‘Hello Goodbye’ are among the fine tunes covered by Ash on their  21st birthday celebrating Little Infinity EP. Check out all six of 'em at [link]]
 
With the Richter Collective, sob, closing, sniffle, at the end of the year, Jogging have moved on a free transfer to Limerick’s Out On A Limb Records. You can hear their Take Courage album ahead of its August 24 release below.
 
 

 
[link]http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2012/07/album-stream-husky---forever-so.html[/link] lets you frolic in the wonderfulness of the new Husky album; Kanye and Pusha T give a new tune its [link]http://www.sharebeast.com/pmxnnsttrmkr[/link] premiere; [link]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/livemusic/lav_maccabees_2012_05_25.mp3[/link] finds The Maccabees covering ‘Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon’ for Australian radio; America’s [link]http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb[/link] weighs in with Santigold, Jack White, Best Coast, Glen Hansard and Beach House sessions; Oakland electro glitchers Astronautico conjure a free album up at [link]http://astronautico.bandcamp.com/album/youre-there-lp[/link]; former Chili Peppers man John Frusciante goes progressive synth pop at [link]http://youtu.be/UagMTCRzAtw[/link]; a (very) rough mix of ‘Cherry Wine’, a track Nas recorded with Amy Winehouse resides at [link]http://soundcloud.com/new-shit/nas-ft-amy-winehouse-cherry[/link] and the tune Iggy ‘n’ Best Coast (busy band) recorded for True Blood can be found at [link]http://blogs.kcrw.com/musicnews/2012/07/kcrw-exclusive-iggy-pop-and-best-coasts-bethany-cosentino-duet-on-lets-boot-and-rally-for-true-blood[/link]
 
 
The Artists Formerly Known As The Garrett Wall Band, Track Dog, have a new remix available from
[link]http://soundcloud.com/trackdogs/summer-town-2[/link]
We can also heartily recommend their recent EP and hope they don’t forget about us now they’re living it up in Madrid.
 

 
 
Rob Kelly and Lethal Dialect are among those contributing to Isis Papers Vol. 3, the new – and totally free – 17-tracker from London hip hopper Cyrus Malachi feat. Triple Darkness and HellzEcho.
 

 
 
 
We have to admit bits of us went all tingly when we happened upon the new [link]http://www.noisetrade.com/susannahoffs[/link] EP from doe-eyed former Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs.
 
Guillemots are releasing not one, not two, not three butfour new albums this year. Cop an earful of one of the tracks here:
 

 
The funky divil that is Theophilus London – as opposed to Lenny Henry’s alter ego Theophilus P. Wildebeeste – gifts us a mixtape featuring his collaborations with the likes of A$AP Rocky, Big Boi, Sade and Mark Ronson.
 

 
Eye-candy time now and we can’t believe how awesome The Roots, Carly Rae Jepsen and Jimmy Fallon singing ‘Call Me Maybe’ on classroom instruments is.
 

 
As incredible as Brian May and Roger Taylor sound, we’re not convinced that Adam Lambert is the right man to fill Freddy Mercury’s extremely big shoes in Queen. Here’s the whole of their recent Moscow show to help you make your own mind up.
 

 
Grouplove have succumbed to the gonzoid genius that is Andrew WK and treat us to an acoustic version of ‘Party Hard’. Blood probably not their own.
 

 
You can watch and then download the audio from this exquisite Exitmusic session for America's NPR.
 

 
All hail Cornershop, a band whose videos are even better than their singles. And ‘Solid Gold’ is very, very good!
 

 
If you didn’t tune into their live Twitter unveiling, fear not, because both of Blur’s new songs can be drooled over here. Is it just us, or does ‘Under The Westway’ sound very Gallagher-esque? Rich vein of songwriting form they're in, we really think they should do another album. 
 

 

 
Which is sadly where Free Music Friday has to leave you for another week. Don't forget to send all your lovely links to @stuartclark66 along with donations to the Ian Brown Strepsils Fund.