Till now, the only way to hear former Belle and Sebastian chanteuse Campbell paired with a Waitsian growl was to force-feed whiskey shots to Stuart. Much less messy is Isobel's latest collab with Lanegan, which melds Scottish dream-pop with the deliciously murky waters of gothic folk.

Filed in: Alternative Folk

If you could combine the influences of Evanescence, Pink, and Missy Elliott, the end result would probably be 21-year-old Brooklynite Krista, an emerging artist with soaring vocals, big beats, beautiful melodies, and street-savvy raps.

Filed in: Pop

Hot off their single "Duffle Bag Boy" featuring Lil Wayne, Disturbing tha Peace members the Playaz Circle return with another hit, "Look What I Got," off their 2008 album, Flight 360.

Filed in: Dirty South

Hanging out with Broken Social Scene and listening to Mogwai has honed the hushed gloom offered by this Canadian indie-dream-pop group. But a lot of the deft moves here are clearly self-invented, most notably the mixing of Tahiti 80-like bouncy kit beats with spacious post-rock soundscapes.

Filed in: Indie Rock

It's not often you see Soulja Boy and !!! in the same sentence--usually that means someone has a gummy keyboard. But the mash of skunky hip-hop and funky synth-rock is intentional in the Telepathe project. Choppy beats prove surprisingly compatible with tart vocal texturing.

Filed in: Electronica