MPFree: 1st June 2011

It's the first day of summer! Did you say "white rabbits?" first thing this morning for a month of good luck?

Pastoral sounds will be to the fore when Thurston Moore comes in for a session following his show at London's Union Chapel last night.

And what better than a song whose lyrics mention "by endless midday sun" to usher in a new month of free downloads for you?

The band are Candythief (not to be confused with late 90s Britpoppers The Candy Thieves) who have a new album out available through Rough Trade called Technicolour Wilderness and another one due soon called Partisan. They're fronted by main songwriter Diana de Cabarrus and will appear at Hutstock on London's Southbank on Sunday.

Candythief - Song For David

Today's Webchat is www.Irkafirka.com which in the words of co-founder Nick Hilditch "hosts well over 400 drawings that taken altogether offer a colourful portrait of the rubbish that is uttered daily on Twitter", literally providing a graphic for some of the inane, bizarre and gnomic tweets which are generated on Twitter.