Song for the 4th! Iron & Wine - Love Vigilantes, a really great cover of the new order song. They changed one word and (arguably, though its pretty obvious imo) made an extremely sad song into a happy one.
Song for the 8th! Ween - Pork Roll, Egg, and Cheese, make sure to listen to some of their other songs too if you don't mind this one, none of their songs sound alike.