Not all wars are fought with guns. Some battles are waged in traffic jams, in empty kitchens, or in the hollow space between a scream and a whisper at 2 a.m. Dax's latest single "Soldier" featuring Tom MacDonald doesn’t march with a drumbeat of victory; it crawls, it scratches, it survives. Written for anyone wrestling with life’s demons—the internal kind, the ones that don't...

Young V opens his latest album, "I Can See Earth From Here", with the peculiar calm of someone who has managed to step entirely outside the atmosphere to catch his breath. Hailing from Michigan City, the artist born Vincent Young crafts his records by putting pen to paper first, subsequently building custom sonic architecture around the lyrics at Bright Star Studios. That deliberate discipline...