iTunes: Free Thursday

Well, the Canadian and UK Singles of the Week have finally appeared. And it looks like the Faithless single "I Won't Stop" is available for free in pretty much every European store. After checking Switzerland (Thanks Matteo), Italy and Germany, and finding it free in each, I'm going to leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.

Canada: Snakes On the Ladder by Handsome Furs
Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Handsome Furs is the side project of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner. On "Snakes On the Ladder," Handsome Furs combine a crisp, slightly noir-ish guitar line against a windblown backdrop amidst the hiccups of some crisp, pre-programmed drums. The blips mesh against that reverberating guitar sound, creating some sort of Blade Runner world where the hard-boiled past meets the future. Boeckner's voice maintains a steely-eyed intensity throughout.

UK: You Are the One by Shiny Toy Guns
Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. "You Are the One" is a tune filled with so many selling points, it could very well have been concocted in a laboratory. Not to say that there's a clinical air to this song from Shiny Toy Guns, but any track that can fuse together a pouty girl singer, post-punk rhythms, electro blips and beats, and rock 'n' roll crunch could not have been made by human hands. Could science be behind this free Single of the Week?

Switzerland: I Won't Stop by Faithless
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Italy: I Won't Stop by Faithless
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