Baby D's Bagels
$20 Worth of Food and Drink for Only $10
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Before the Wheels Freeze

Several Hundred People
SELF-RELEASED
Hardcore heaven Louisville has gotten poppier lately, with intricate yet light-hearted sounds coming from the Deloreans, Murals, and Several Hundred People.
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Rotten Thing to Say

Burning Love
SOUTHERN LORD
Burning Songs for Lovers was an energetic but ultimately one-dimensional debut to Burning Love’s distorted brand of bluesy punk ’n’ roll.
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Live From the Underground

Big K.R.I.T.
DEF JAM
After three mixtapes better than most emcees’ entire catalogs, K.R.I.T. ventures into the retail market. K.R.I.T.
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Room Service, Carry Out & Delivery

The Inn Crowd
SELF-RELEASED
The latest in a multitude of releases from the Triple B camp, trio project Room Service is a mixture of the good and bad ideas from last year’s output.
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The Way We Move

Langhorne Slim
RAMSEUR

Raw honesty and fiery, vocal-cord shredding howls make Langhorne Slim what he is.

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Orbiting

The Aruán Ortiz Quartet
FRESH SOUND/NEW TALENT
Cuban-born pianist Ortiz embraces progressive jazz more than Afro-Cuban here.
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Diamonds & Dub

VHS or Beta
KRIAN
VHS or Beta recruit the next-big-thing producer Jacques Renault and former-big-thing engineer Mark Verbos to strip tracks from their album Diamonds and Death.
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Safety Fifth

Mucca Pazza
ELECTRIC COWBELL
Devoted superfans like yours truly are the most qualified to tell you that this is a great album, completely worth your time and money — but the third-best of the group’s three albums to d
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Celebration Rock

Japandroids
POLYVINYL
“Young Hearts Spark Fire,” the burning anthem that won David Prowse and Brian King the hearts of thousands of young punks on Japandroids’ debut album, Post-Nothing,
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Cancer 4 Cure

El-P
FAT POSSUM
Five years after his last album, El Producto has leapt back into music with two major releases.