Baby D's Bagels
$20 Worth of Food and Drink for Only $10
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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.
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Song Town

Wyndell Williams
SELF-RELEASED

Song Town is the result of a wedding singer thinking he can make a solo record.

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Black Kite

Silver Tongues
KARATE BODY
The debut album from the Louisville-based Silver Tongues, which includes some talents who have played with Wax Fang, The Fervor and Cabin (including LEO (m)ad man James Hewett), is yet another surpris
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Beautiful Noise

SNO.
SELF-RELEASED
I was recently asked why I don’t automatically love all local releases, regardless of quality, just because they’re from the same region as me.
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Wobble Walkin'

The Duke Robillard Jazz Trio
BLUE DUCHESS

Once upon a time, it was cool to be smooth, before elevator music became “smooth jazz.” Guitarist Duke Robillard, known for his T-Bone Walker-influenced blues, is smooth in the old-fas

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The Money Store

Death Grips
EPIC
This is music as a blunt instrument.
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Look Harder

Actual People
SELF-RELEASED
Louisville has some solid live hip-hop acts. I don’t need to list them; they’re already playing somewhere around town this weekend.