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Back in 1991, N.Y.OIL (then known as Kool Kim of the U.M.C.s) dressed like a color-blind Breakin' extra and rapped with clever ebullience about "blue cheese." Seventeen years later, he's resurfaced as an angry elder statesman with a blunt hard-truths message that (mostly) succeeds where it might easily annoy.

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He's still way too fond of show-tune orchestration, and then there's the tossed-off corny stuff, but the orneriness of Newman's now-64-year-old wit makes George Carlin seem like Dane Cook.

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After emerging six years ago as the South's quintessential regular joes with the single "Awnaw," and five years after their equally down-home but less commercially successful second album, Nappy Roots return, trying to reconcile hard times with their desire for a more garish lifestyle.

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With her classic death-rock seethe, singer Julie Christmas is the perfect siren for folks who have lots of playlists labeled "heavy," but Made Out of Babies owe more to '90s noise punk (the Jesus Lizard, Rapeman) than primal metal urges such as Slayer or even Sabbath.

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Since his classic underground debut album, 2001's The Best Part, former Brooklyn schoolteacher J-Live has enjoyed cultlike status as the quintessential no-frills indie MC -- literate but genially pointed.

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A collaboration between West Coast hip-hop producer Madlib (Otis Jackson Jr.) and percussionist Ivan Conti of the Brazilian band Azymuth, Sujinho revisits the gently insistent rhythms and mouthwatering melodies associated with Brazilian music, chilling everything into one creamy treat.