If “free” is good, then surely “free” plus “free” is even better. What are we on about? Well, for starters, Grammy nominated producer and Wilmington’s best-known Dutch import Nicolay — one half of NC soul-jammers The Foreign Exchange — teams up with Raleigh’s exploratory jazz trio The Hot at Nights — which features Foreign Exchange guitarist Chris Boerner — for a two-week tour of the East coast and Midwest, and you’re invited on our dime!

Well, sort of.

Shuffle is giving away a pair of tickets for each of the tour’s N.C. dates: Jan. 24 at the Soapbox in Wilmington; Jan. 25 at the Pourhouse in Raleigh; and Jan. 26 in Charlotte at the Evening Muse. Shoot us an e-mail at swag@shufflemag.com and we’ll tell the first-come-first-served winners the good news by Monday, Jan.23. (Please specify which city you want to see ‘em in; we’re not mind readers.)

There’s more: Nicolay and The Hot at Night are touring together behind 2011’s collaborative Shibuya Session EP, in which they rearranged the Dutchman’s instrumental cuts from his 2009 LP, City Lights Vol 2: Shibuya, and they’re giving that away for free, too. Visit theforeignexchangemusic.com to scoop up the download.

Seriously, what’s not to like about all this? You’re welcome. —John Schacht