Week three of July brings a mixed offering of new music releases. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
Phil Anselmo, Walk Through Exits Only (Housecore Records)
Bitchin' Bajas, Bitchitronics (Drag City)
Sara Bareilles, The Blessed Unrest (Epic)
BEACH, In Us We Trust (Short Story Records)
The rocktronic music project of electric violin songstress Karen Mould aka Bitch, of Bitch and Animal. Check out the sultry yet jagged blues-blasted number "Love Was a River" below, in which her violin sounds as loud and amped as a guitar.
Andrew Cedermark, Home Life (Underwater Peoples)
Chance, In Search (Paradise of Bachelors)
Cherry Poppin' Daddies, White Teeth, Black Thought (Space Age Bachelor Pad)
Eric Copeland, Joke in the Hole (DFA)
Court Yard Hounds, Amelita (Columbia)
The new(ish) country music and folk duo founded by Dixie Chicks sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, with the latter on lead for the first time. This is their second full-length.
Defeater, Letters Home (Bridge Nine)
Ezra Furman, The Year Of No Returning (Bar/None)
Gauntlet Hair, Stills (Dead Oceans)
James Holden, Inheritors (Border Community)
Mayer Hawthorne, Where Does This Door Go (Republic)
The soul revival singer with the silky croon presents a fourth full-length album with guest spots (Jessie Ware lends vocals to first single "Her Favorite Song" after the jump) and producers, among them, Oak of Pop & Oak, Pharrell, Greg Wells and Jack Splash... listen to the track and see the rest of this week's new releases after the jump...