Mon, Nov 23 2009 01:18 PST

Artist:Baby The BirdmanReview:Cash Money label founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams is aswell-known for slinging cash — he once gave Lil Wayne $1million on his birthday — as he is for rhyming. The NoLanative's fourth solo disc is the rap equivalent of

Artist:Elvis Perkins In DearlandReview:Elvis Perkins' first two records were informed by his roughbiography: His father, actor Anthony Perkins, died of complicationsfrom AIDS, and his mother died on 9/11. This EP opens with a NewOrleans stomp about that "Doomsday" Tuesday and

Artist:Ray DaviesReview:An elegiac quality deepens many of the Kinks' most enduringsongs, from "See My Friends" to "Celluloid Heroes." Frontman RayDavies reaffirms his belief in faded beauty with a newly recordedcollection of classics rearranged for London's Crouch End FestivalChorus. At 65,

Artist:Kid SisterReview:So why did Chicago rapper Kid Sister, 29, tinker with her debutfor so long? For one, she has a split allegiance to club-pop andhip-hop. This overhaul of last year's leaked Dream Datemakes things more clubby with new tracks: a

Artist:Various ArtistsReview:"Got to try to improve your brain," warns born-again Connecticutcrooner D.R. Hooker on the title track. But, dude, haywire brainsare what make this freak-rock compilation so awesome! Top Drawer's"Song of a Sinner" pairs sweet vocals with a nine-circles-of-hellelectric-guitar trip;

Artist:Justin BieberReview:No man alive — well, no 15-year-old Canadian — makesladies squeal like Justin Bieber. He's 65 inches of pure lovepanther, with sensitive-man bangs and a voice like Joey McIntyregetting savagely beaten by the AutoTune police. On the jazzy"P.Y.T." rip

The making of a teen-angst guru in the Age of MySpaceIt's just past noon in Atlanta, where the Warped Tour is in full swing,but already Jamie Tworkowski has hugged 79 people, posed for 56photographs, signed 42 autographs, blotted the tears

With the release of his career-spanning "Live Anthology," Petty talks about the Heartbreakers' early days, plus Jagger, Harrison and DylanTo mark the release of The Live Anthology, a multi-CD boxed set covering 30 years of road work with his band