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MF Grimm has reason to be hungry. In the early '90s, when his first career took off, the Manhattan MC was shot seven times, leaving him paralyzed, blind, and in a wheelchair. He later partnered with MF Doom until a bitter falling out. Then, a drug charge put him in prison.

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Klee is a trio (vocals, keyboards, and guitar) who write basic, efficient songs and fit them to a workmanlike variety of musical settings: disco rock ("Gold"), low-lit new wave ("As Long as You Live"), and especially jangle pop ("This Is for Everyone"). A few of them are even presented in both English and German.

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This duo's tenth album is a masterful blend of electronic genres, pulling from older works like their more ambient 1994 debut, Vulvaland, and gleaning the best from recent forays into glitchy vocal house (2004's Radical Connector).

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Once upon a time, it seemed like Junior Boys were poised to swipe the Postal Service's emotronica demographic -- they brooded harder and had better beats. But for this second album, lead weeper Jeremy Greenspan received no rhythmic contributions from former partner Johnny Dark, and it shows.

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Backpack rap gets caricatured as hip-hop for alt-rock fans, but this affable Los Angeles MC literalizes the connection, biting left-field grooves from R.E.M. and Pixies. Pigeon John specializes in the same laidback slice-of-life observations as his Cali counterparts Blackalicious and Lyrics Born, but he's funnier and more self-effacing.

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Last year millions of people took Crash's message of racial understanding through coincidence to heart, but Ludacris, one of that Oscar-winning film's many stars, was not among them. Release Therapy, his fifth album, sees the usually ebullient Atlanta MC/actor/label boss throwing 'bows not in the club but rather in his analyst's office.