Just five more days until Ireland go into the lion’s den that is Wembley for a supposed ‘friendly’ with the old enemy (800 years of tyranny, 30 years of Jimmy Hill etc. etc.) Free Music Friday’s allegiances mightn’t be the same as most of yours, so let us just wish for a cracker of a game and no bonehead-ry from either set of supporters.
 
They’ve gone and turned the download button ‘off’ again but we’re still loving this video of James Blake glitching up a storm the other week in Washington DC. It all bodes extremely well for his upcoming visit to Kilmainham for Forbidden Fruit.
 

 
[link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link] kicks this week’s streaming off with newbies from CocoRosie, Shannon And The Clams, ASG, Classixx, Noisettes, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Parquet Courts, Crystal Fighters, The Baptist Generaks, Kylesa, Nancy Elizabeth, Mumford & Sons, Is Tropical and ADULT.; Mykki Blanco, Baths, The Pastels, ASG, Alex Bleeker & The Fraks, Sean Nicholas Savage and When Saints Go Machine are to be found at
[link]pitchfork.com/advance[/link]; Miles Davis Quintet, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound and Bobby McFerrin are loitering with considerable intent at [link]www.radio6.nl/luisterpaal[/link] and [link]www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] is the go-to place for Tricky, Mount Kimbie, Laura Marling and Sean Nelson.
 
[link]nobpm.tumblr.com/post/50990752528/daft-punk-horizon-japan-bonus-track-all[/link] is streaming the gorgeous Air-esque bonus track that adorns the Japanese version of the Daft Punk album.
 
The Death Waltz Records folk have put together a spooky Bring Out Your Dead mix for Fangoria magazine, which is not, repeat,not to be listened to before bedtime if you’re on your own.
 

 
Metallica have posted the first trailer for Through The Never, their 3D concert film-cum-fictional movie, which stars Chronicle and The Place Beyond The Pines man Dane DeHan.
It premieres Stateside in September with a European release shortly after.
 

 
Free Music Friday spent a very entertaining hour on the phone t’other night with the legend that is John Lydon. Father Ted, the Amish Sex Pistols, misogyny (real and alleged), gun control, Johnny Moped, Shane MacGowan, Ginger Baker, the Free Tibet Campaign, Miles Davis and the holes in the Iona Institute’s arguments all featured in an interview, which will be gracing the next issue of Hot Press. In the meantime, feast on the whole of PiL’s recent visit to Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.
 

 
The mighty Anvil are streaming their Hope In Hell album at [link]loudwire.com/anvil-hope-in-hell-exclusive-album-stream[/link]; [link]soundcloud.com/baauer/disclosure-you-me-ft-eliza[/link]; there’s more veteran headbanging action to be had at [link]www2.sheffieldtoday.net/downloads/WhitesnakeLoveWillSetYouFreeLive.mp3[/link] courtesy of Whitesnake, and the amps remain on ‘11’ at [link]www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/fogerty.html[/link] where John Fogerty and Dave Grohl are squaring up to each other.
 
Fresh from his cameo on the Daft Punk album, electronic legend Giorgio Moroder has come up with the titular music for Google Chrome’s Racer game.
 

 
You can also stream the 73-year-old Italian’s first DJ set at [link]www.rbmaradio.com/shows/giorgio-moroder-live-at-deep-space[/link]. The Red Bull Music Academy site also has a series of Fireside Chats with Nile Rodgers, Arthur Baker and François K.
 
Soon to be adorning the front-cover of Hot Press, 17-year-old Alcatel Big Break winner Katie Laffan is giving away this fabulous cover of Pussycat Dolls’ ‘Don’t Cha’. Also check out ‘Soldier’, which confirms her own songwriting credentials.
 

 

 
If you’ve ever wondered what Stone Temple Pilots would sound like fronted by Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, your answer awaits at [link]downloads.radio.com/stone-temple-pilots/#.UZ31zoX1u_E[/link]
 
Queens Of The Stone Age have put together a fabulous 15-minute animated trailer for their ...Like Clockwork album, which drops on May 31 and sounds pretty damn immense.
 

 
Just when we thought we couldn’t be any more excited about The National’s upcoming Irish dates they go and deliver this wondrous Late Show With David Letterman performance.
 

 
We’re also much enamoured of the tune the chaps played last week when they swung by New York’s WFYV radio station.
 
[link]www.npr.org/event/music/185548038/the-national-falling-for-graceless[/link]
 
Malcolm McLaren may very well have been thinking of Johnny Moped when he said, “It’s better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.”
World famous in his native Croydon, the great man has his story told by Captain Sensible’s son Fred.
 

 
Brooooooceaholics that we are, Free Music Friday can’t wait to see Springsteen & I, a tasty-looking fan film from the Ridley Scott stable, which hits big screens on July 22.
 

 
Okay, we’re going for a bracing stroll in Howth. If we’re not blown into the Irish Sea or grabbed by a peckish sealion we’ll see you again next with @stuartclark66 the address for all your lovely links.