Artist:WaleReview:On his 2008 Mixtape About Nothing, this D.C. rapper hadthe guts to set self-examining rhymes to Seinfeld samples.There's nothing so admirably weird on his debut. Wale insteadfashions himself Kanye East, a mix of aspiration and anger, givento jazzy moralizing à

Artist:The Rolling StonesReview:"Get yer ya-ya's out!" — recorded in 1969 over two nightsat Madison Square Garden — is the last official live documentof the Rolling Stones in their swaggering Sixties prime; it's alsoone of the great live albums of all

Artist:AmerieReview:On Amerie's fourth album, she excels at getting in your facewithout overdosing on divatude — not much excessiveBeyoncé-size vocalizing here. The lack of pretense can'tsave snoozy slow ones like "The Flowers," but some of the uptempotracks borrow the basic approach

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Artist:NirvanaReview:Hot on the heels of Live at Reading is this dolled-up20th-anniversary (!) edition of Nirvana's debut, which barely hitthe radar on its initial release but whose resonance ballooned asthe band scorched the earth. Now, its near-greatness is plain, mostclearly on

Artist:WeezerReview:Do you think Rivers Cuomo ever gets tired of pissing people off?Check that album title again. The fact that he's willing to slap atitle like Raditude on his work shows that when it comesto taunting and baiting the crowd, Cuomo

Rolling Stone takes the Weezer frontman to the beach to watch himboogie

Eminem, Kiss, The Flaming Lips, Lenny Kravitz, Jane's Addiction andmore rock New Orleans fest

Trey and Co. rock the Rolling Stones and jam with Sharon Jones andthe Dap Kings at two-day fest