Tori Amos - Maybe California

A US Mother's Day gift from Tori to the world in the form of a free track from her new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin. A lyrical letter from one mother to another. Find it at www.spinner.com/2009/04/27/tori-amos-offers-all-moms-a-mothers-day-gift-exclusive-downl/.

Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom

A great 're-imagining' of Peter Shilling's 80s classic based on the adventures of Bowie's Ashes To Ashes character. This band have been making waves for the past couple of years so this is a great chance to check them out for nothing. Nothing beats the original, German-language Shilling version though! Get Major Tom from hipsteroverkill.com/Blogs/tabid/1936/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/496/DOWNLOAD-Shiny-Toy-Guns-new-80s-cover.aspx.

Lady Gaga - Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) (Pet Shop Boys Remix)

The Pet Shop Boys have been remixing all sorts of people lately, from Yoko Ono to Madonna. But their mix of Lady Gaga's Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say), is only available as a free download from AOL Music UK. An absolute must for Petheads, find it here: music.aol.co.uk/exclusive-lady-gaga-download/article/20090217132209990001.

Heads We Dance - Work It Out (feat. Little Boots)

We're proud to proclaim “you read it here first” every time the much-hyped Little Boots gets a mention. She's now collaborated with electro-poppers Heads We Dance whose When The Sirens Sound is getting much-deserved breakthrough airplay on Radio 1. This is the B-side, which is available as an official, "totally guilt-free download" from the US Arjan Writes music blog at www.arjanwrites.com/arjanwrites/2009/04/exclusive-free-download-heads-we-dance-featuring-little-boots-work-it-out.html.

Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On

Disco, synths and dance influences seem to be flooding back into indie music this year - praise the lord - and a prime example is the new single from Wave Machines. one of the most hyped bands of the year so far, they've been described as "like Hot Chip dipped in Hot Chocolate" and, impossibly, "polished, accomplished, budget disco." Keep The Lights On is their third single and is available as a limited edition 7" vinyl (Rough Trade, £3.99) or as a completely free download from their website.

www.wavemachines.co.uk

The Streets – Trust Me

Here's a reason to jump on board the Twitter bandwagon, if you're a Streets fan that is. Mike Skinner has been posting free MP3s – as well as lots of chat and random musings - from his studio via the new microblogging platform. First up was a track called I love My Phone which the Guardian Music Blog jumped on for its “chipmunk vocals, crashing snares and text message bleeps.” Then came Trust Me, which is an endearing knockabout fusion of Massive Attack and Karel Fialka. Like everything on Twitter it's gone in seconds, so download while you can.

twitter.com/skinnermike

Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe

Not so much a download, but well worth a mention: digital distributor We7 has struck a deal to stream the new Depeche Mode album in its entirety on NME.com. If you go to the URL above you can click through every track, like the stripped down industrial opener In Chains, and the buzzing, dirty Wrong. It's covered in adverts – both visual and audio – but worth a go.

www.nme.com/news/depeche-mode/44025

Grant Phabao presents The Lone Ranger - Fever

Grant Phabao is the man behind the recent reggae remix of of AC/DC's Let There Be Rock. That one's streaming for free at ParisDJs.com and an original track he uploaded there - Fever - has now been released as a limited, 300-edition 7" vinyl. So you can buy the vinyl and get the MP3 free. Or buy the MP3 and get the vinyl free. Either way you'll get some rich and sophisticated Parisian dance tracks.

SuperflyRecords.com

No Doubt – Everything, basically!

If you ever wanted a sign as to just how much the recorded music industry is changing, try this. If you buy a “top tier” ticket to one of No Doubt's forthcoming live shows you can download their entire back catalogue! For free! That's seven albums, and one extra exclusive track – their first new recording in years - which is, quite bizarrely, a cover of Adam & The Ants' Stand & Deliver. Their tour kicks off on 02 May 2 in Atlantic City and those “top tier” tickets are actually quite reasonable. They start from $42.50, which is about thirty quid.

www.nodoubt.com/events

Lenka - Anything I'm Not (Acoustic)

Ex-Decoder Ring vocalist Lenka was recently named VH1's "You Oughta Know Artist" and chosen as iTunes Single Of The Week in the US, but possibly the best barometer of her impending popularity is the fact that one of her tracks, The Show, has had over six million plays on MySpace. You can download this track for free from Columbia Records, if you sign up to her mailing list to hear what all the fuss is about.

Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands

Doherty's delicate musical and medical rehabilitation continues with this new album of shrewd, languid guitar pop. Head to iTunes where you'll find an exclusive bonus track, an acoustic version of Lady Don't Fall Backwards. Handily, and unlike many other iTunes bonus tracks, you don't have to download the full album to get this, you can just buy it by itself if you want.

Tom Waits & Kronos Quartet - Way Down in the Hole

“Working with the Kronos Quartet was like firing a .38 Special with a clam shell holster: beauty meets brains," Tom Waits said of this collab, which had the Dalai Lama enthralled. And Spinner.com has a free MP3 so you can hear it for yourself at www.spinner.com/2007/07/02/exclusive-mp3-tom-waits-and-kronos-quartet-way-down-in-the-ho/.

The Prodigy – Omen (Herve's End Of The World Remix)

One of the best mixes of The Prodigy's return-to-form (or, at least, return-to-the-charts) single Omen is the Herve's End Of The World Remix. It's available exclusively on iTunes and, while you're logged in, check their version of the band's Invaders Must Die album for a very interesting 16:44 Track By Track Walkthrough audio commentary and a frankly useless Digital Booklet.

Little Man Tate - I Am Alive

Interesting new take on anti-piracy here from Brighton's Skint label. Firstly, they're not sending advance copies to radio or press (so there's no star rating with this review), to avoid unscrupulous DJs and journos dropping off their promos at Record & Tape Exchange or ripping them to Pirate Bay. But the main deal is that each downloader of the finished release will get a ticket to Little Man Tate's forthcoming gig at Magna in Rotherham. It's very much a test of the water and, if it works, expect future releases from the label like this.

Pet Shop Boys – Brit Awards Medley

As we go to print, the new Pet Shop Boys album is only available to pre-order on iTunes, so we can only hear a 30-second sample of each track. But one that everyone's heard in its entirety is their fantastic 10-minute medley which was performed at the close of the The Brits 2009. Mixed by Stuart Price, it instantly became the joint best mash-up ever to have been performed at The Brits (tied of course with Rihanna's Umbrella from 2008 which was mashed with, or rather mashed all over, Klaxon's It's not Over Yet). Elsewhere on iTunes, Apple has the 35-song/2-video PopArt package to download at £5.49.

YMC Radio Buzzy

You Must Create (YMC) is a London fashion label which started out back in 1995. They've been causing a bit of a stir lately with a series of free-to-download podcasts, which Ben Ayres from Rough Trade emailed us to flag up. "If you like a bit of weird and rare 1950s audio," he says, "these podcasts are something else. A friend's done them and every track and each advert/jingle has been taken from original vinyl 7"s, no reissues allowed..."

www.youmustcreate.com