Experimental, In-your-face, Intense, Loose, Lush, Pop, Rebel, Sexy

Darlings are a four-piece band from New York. The current climate of popular music criticism demands that influences be compactly delineated and musical kinfolk named, and Darlings are no strangers to this treatment: their music has drawn comparisons to Teenage Fanclub and My Bloody Valentine; their

Anxiety, Charming, Composed, Dreamy, Playful, Pop, Sexy, Smarty arty pop, Witty

Innovator of the Senegalese popular music form Mbalax (pronounced UMM-BAL-LAAKH). The genre blends the Griot tradition of West Africa (praise singers and historians associated with royalty), Afro-Caribbean music, and African-American popular music. N'Dour began performing at the age of 12. He has si

Mbalax, Rhythmic, Urban

Hikaru Utada, better known by her stage name Utada in America and Europe, and also known by her fans as Hikki, is a Japanese American singer-songwriter, arranger, and record producer. Utada's official debut album in 1999, First Love, immediately became Japan's biggest-selling album in history and

Bright, Bubblicious, J pop