Coming This Week: Free Music Streaming, Downloads from Hamilton-Wenham Library

You’ve come to appreciate the Hamilton-Wenham Regional Library for all your book, periodical, DVD and CD borrowing needs.

Beginning July 1, you can add streaming and downloadable music to that list.

The Hamilton-Wenham Regional Library will launch Freegal Music Wednesday. The service allows patrons to download up to five songs per week and stream up to three hours of music daily from a catalog of more than 8 million songs.

Additionally, Freegal features more than 15,000 music videos for viewing.

And this isn’t just your mom and dad’s music, either. Current chart-topping artists -- think, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, Gavin DeGraw, Justin Timberlake and others -- are offered alongside classic artists like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

To access the music, you’ll need to have your library card handy. You can listen on your computer or download the Freegal app from the Apple Store or Google Play and listen on the go.