Cassandra Maze, "Superstars". Two words. Say them out loud and they already feel like a declaration. The Vancouver singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist released this self-produced single and it carries the kind of quiet authority that only comes from an artist who has spent years earning it. No label machinery. No outside producers. Just one woman, her home studio, and a message she clearly needed to put...

Tony Frissore takes a deeply personal turn on his new single "Stolen Valor," teaming up with fellow veteran and spoken-word artist AXIOM to excavate the quiet wreckage of institutional disillusionment. Rather than aiming outward at civilian posers, the track radically upends the military concept from the inside out. Here, the valor feels stripped away by the very system that demanded it hollowed out by...