Funked-up keyboards, thick horns, and a smattering of dry beats borrowed from regional rage hyphy--that's the sonic blackboard of this Bay Area darling. More significant is what she writes all over it: vocals that flit between pure R&B sugar and breathy rhyming. Download free MP3 now!

We need to research new metals for a 100-million-selling artist like Janet. Forget platinum--this diva's gone magnesium. The original crossover star is at it again with new track "Feedback," Autotuning her way through a feast of sizzling postmodern synth beats and sultry murmurs.

The Counting Crows came of age in the early '90s, during the swan song of smart major-label rock. New album "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" shows they get the indie kids, as a rowdy A-side from Pixies producer Gil Norton decrescendos movingly into a brooding back half from Brian Deck. Download free MP3 now!