Click to download: Amoeba Music online

For the last 20 years, music-loving Brits returning from California have sung the praises of Amoeba Music, the self-proclaimed largest independent record store in the world. At Amoeba.com , you can order new-release CDs direct to the UK, but the main reason to visit the website is the free content it offers. For starters, there is a wonderful video archive of more than 200 live sets played in Amoeba's shops by everyone from Os Mutantes to Steve Earle, and Andy Bell to Dizzee Rascal. They also have an insightful series of videos called What's in My Bag, where staff, customers and musicians discuss their recent purchases, alongside clips of the music. Recent highlights have included Groove Armada, Robyn, the Big Pink and an extremely funny interview with South African rave-rappers Die Antwoord. To top things off, it also has a free downloads section, which puts you just a click away from more than 200 MP3s, including sample album tracks from the xx, Avi Buffalo and Pavement, plus songs from many of the aforementioned in-store performances. Although Glastonbury and T in the Park are two of Britain's biggest festivals, the eight-hour drive between their respective sites in Somerset and Scotland seems to prevent them viewing each other as major rivals. So many acts are able to play at both events. The problem with that, though, is that the BBC's extensive online coverage of T comes with an unmistakable whiff of deja vu. Just a fortnight after we were treated to online highlights of Glastonbury sets from Muse, Faithless, Dizzee Rascal, Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Hot Chip, Groove Armada, Mumford & Sons, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Vampire Weekend, we can, until Sunday night, watch those very same acts playing at bbc.co.uk/tinthepark . Of the T artists who didn't play both events, the highlights of Goldfrapp, the Prodigy, Kasabian and, particularly, Eminem are most worthy of your time (there is, sadly, no footage of Jay-Z's set). But you can't help thinking that, next year, the BBC might do better ploughing its festival-filming resources into something completely different. More than two years after his last album, and following a disastrous hard-drive crash last year, Mancunian indie-popster Jim Noir finally has 10 new tracks ready to go. However, Noir has decided that the songs don't really sit together as an album. So, he's giving away four tracks as a free download from his website, jimnoir.com , presumably in the hope that they'll encourage people to buy what Noir calls the "better" six when they're released as an EP later in 2010. Certainly, if these four terrific slabs of sunny psychedelic pop are the duff ones, then the other six are worth getting quite excited about. Send your links to [email protected]