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Meredith Willson wrote this tune back in 1951 - just a few years before he would pen his best-known work, the 1958 musical, The Music Man The versatile Harry Connick Jr. adds his characteristic soul and charm to this version, which gives a touch of his New Orleans big band style. This track is available on Harry Connick Jr.’s new holiday album, What a Night!. If you like the track, check out the album.

Curumin is a Brazilian MC, sound sculptor, and beatmaker whose newest album, Japan Pop Show, is a cornucopia of styles from throughout Brazil’s history with a tight hold on hip-hop and funky R&B. “Caixa Preta” is the sound of an electro, bass-driven favela party with a heavy nod toward Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It.” If you like the track, check out the album. For more info, visit Curumin’s MySpace Latino page.

“Jealous Enemies” is the opening track on Dark Captain Light Captain’s new Miracle Kicker album. The tune has a dreamy intricacy coupled with blissful folk harmonies. It could be the starry-eyed offspring of the Kings of Convenience and one of Radiohead’s quiet moments. If you like this song, check out the full-length album.

The Puerto Rican DJ known as Dragon was worked as the man behind the decks and producer for artists like Alex y Wibal and Nestor Torres in the past. Now he steps up to the mic with his debut, The New Face. “Nada Sin Ti” nails down the sound of an echoing, cavernous club - pulsing with massive synths and auto-tuned vocals, but with a tight, reggaeton-inspired bounce carrying the melody. If you like the track, check out the album. For more info, visit Dragon’s MySpace Latino page.

This is some soulful, sentimental pop that starts with a piano-driven lead and proceeds to tell a bittersweet love story. The trio’s frontman, Danny O’Donoghue, engages with a conversational delivery, before diving into well-timed harmonies and a booming chorus filled with vocal swells reminiscent of Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

On this song, the opening track from Chilean artist Gonzalo Yañez’s self-titled album, Yañez makes the most of every nuance of stereo sound capabilities. Acoustic guitars pan across, outer-space synthesizers meld into sing-song choruses, and Yañez sounds like he’s singing just out of reach. The combined result is a Technicolor dream, part Beatles, and part Flaming Lips.

“Mr. Hurricane” packs a beat that will be blowing speakers apart across all continents. That’s the hope, anyway. This track comes courtesy of Montreal-based duo Beatrice Bonifassi and Jean-Phi Goncalves. The group has created a song that has garage-rock’s fuzzed-out wallop, Jack White’s sneering, bluesy darkness, and a giant, space-age gospel chorus worth of the Flaming Lips. Get it now and thank us later.

This Glaswegian group have been together just two years and have already made frothing fans of critics back home thanks to two big singles - “Daddy’s Gone” and “Go Square Go!” - songs that swelled with feedback and honeyed melodies. Their sound calls to mind of early (read: pre-Oasis) Creation Records with touches of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s noise assault and much more up-front, emotive vocals. Try the track “Geraldine” and get ready for your new favorite band.

Famed vocalist Rosario has been creating hits since the early ’90s. The songs featured on her new album, Parte de Mi, celebrate the music of her childhood and her life thus far by embracing the songs of people like Roberto Carlos, Juan Luis Guerra, and one song from her mother, Lola Flores. Here, she delivers Vicentico’s “Algo Contigo” in flamenco-touched, jazz-pop style.

The 88 are a Los Angeles-based band who have been causing a bit of ruckus down in the Southlands thanks to their fist-pumping power pop. Take a listen to the band’s embracing of the British theatrics of bands like Queen, the Kinks, and T.Rex and you’ll know immediately why you should care.