Toronto soul singer Tara Van navigates the tangled give-and-take of devotion on her buoyant new single, “I'm A Vine.” Also featured on her EP “Miles on It,” the track adopts the stubborn genius of flora the quiet tenacity of green shoots wedging through concrete merely to catch daylight. Here, Van transforms an unbalanced dynamic with an unyielding partner into an uplifting celebration of endurance,...

The Sven Curth Trio pushes back against our increasingly artificial landscape with their new album, "live at your local Waterhole". Serving as a deliberate defense of organic, human art, the release documents the trio doing exactly what algorithms cannot: sweating it out, improvising, and finding communal joy in a crowded room. https://open.spotify.com/album/3AN1GZsmhBUtD3j4yEZr4c?si=je3S2Y-NTYm73O_NV4LqHw The lineup is tightly woven. Sven Curth anchors the band on vocals, guitar, and...