Out This Week 7/1

With today being Canada Day and Friday the Fourth of July, the music industry world is kinda quiet this week, but there are still some stellar releases worth shooting fireworks for. Highlights include the comedy album 2776: A Millennium of American Asskickery, the brainchild of Conan/The Daily Show writer Rob Kutner, The Tonight Show writer Joel Moss Levinson, and Steven Levinson. The compilation features new music from Yo La Tengo, Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, and Aimee Mann, with guest appearances from Ira Glass, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt, and many more, plus proceeds go to benefit the charity OneKid OneWorld.

Other highlights include the debut album from Beverly, a new project of Frankie Rose, solo artist and former member of Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls. KEXP's Music Director Don Yates notes the album, "blends hazy dream-pop with crunchy ‘90s indie-rock." A mere month after the release of their debut collaboration Someday World, Brian Eno and Karl Hyde of Underworld are already back with their sophomore release, High Life. Former Dream Syndicate frontman Steve Wynn shares the collection, Sketches In Spain, featuring music he recorded there from 2001-2005 with producer Paco Loco. Mark Kozelek releases the album Live at Biko, recorded earlier this year in Milan, and featuring several tracks from the Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon catalog. Ryan Adams presents his first new music since 2011, and Japanese noise band OOIOO, featuring Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We (yes, that Yoshimi), release their euphoric sixth album, Gamel.

• (Various Artists) Yo La Tengo - "Toymageddon"
• from 2776: A Millennium of American Asskickery on CD Baby
• Ryan Adams - "Gimme Something Good"
• from "Gimme Something Good" b/w "Aching for More" 7" on Pax-Am
• Bad Suns - "Salt"
• from Language & Perspective on Vagrant
• Beverly - "Honey Do"
• from Careers on Kanine Records
• Cabaret Voltaire - "Crackdown (Radio Edit 83)"
• from #7885 Electropunk to Technopop on Mute
• Cam'ron - "Devil feat. JuJu"
• from First of the Month, Vol. 1 EP on Killa Entertainment
• Corrosion Of Conformity - "Number IX Number IX Number IX"
• from IX on Candlelight Records
• Gal Costa - "Não Identificado"
• from Gal Costa reissue on Real Gone Music
• Brian Eno / Karl Hyde - "DBF"
• from High Life on Warp
• Azizi Gibson - "Smoking With The Gods"
• from Backward Books EP on Brainfeeder
• Gulp - "Vast Space"
• from Season Sun on Everloving
• The Levon Helm Band - "Drivin' Wheel"
• from The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3 on Vanguard
• Mark Kozelek - "Micheline"
• from Live at Biko on Caldo Verde
• Late Bloomer - "Use Your Words"
• from Things Change on Self Aware/Tor Johnson
• Jim Lauderdale - "I'm a Song"
• from I'm a Song on Sky Crunch Records
• Corb Lund - "Counterfeiters' Blues"
• from Counterfeit Blues on New West
• Matthewdavid - "In My World"
• from In My World on Brainfeeder
• NONONO - "Pumpin Blood"
• from We Are Only What We Feel on Warner Bros
• Old Crow Medicine Show - "Dearly Departed Friend"
• from Remedy on ATO
• OOIOO - "Atatawa"
• from Gamel on Thrill Jockey
• Tricky D - "Equanimity" mix
• from Equanimity on BBE
• Turn to Crime - "Sunday's Cool"
• from Can't Love on Mugg & Bopp Records / Old Flame Records
• Steve Wynn
• from Sketches in Spain on Omnivore
• Zeds Dead - "Hadouken"
• from Somewhere Else EP on Mad Decent