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,...

Before you can even properly settle into Tim Camrose’s new single, “Going to Nashville,” your mind gets delightfully snagged on the backstory. For forty years, this man was a surgeon and a professor—a life measured in scalpels and lecture halls, not chord progressions. It’s impossible not to picture those same steady hands, once dedicated to mending human bodies, now tracing the frets of a...