Listening to Cuzoh’s new single, “Slow Down,” feels a bit like holding your breath without realizing you’re doing it. The Hempstead-born artist has crafted a piece so deceptively smooth in its Hip-Hop and Soul blend that the grim story coiled within it strikes you a second too late, like the aftershock of a distant tremor. It’s a ghost story told about someone who is...

Toronto songwriter Tara Van has unveiled "Miles On It," the bittersweet title single from her upcoming EP due out October 16, 2026. As a practicing massage therapist and self-described unapologetic daydreamer, Van seems uniquely attuned to where we carry emotional ache in the body, and how melody can coax it loose. Blending indie pop warmth with folk intimacy, she approaches the quiet demise of...