Beca Grimm

Kacey Musgraves may have the breakup ballad of 2018, but "Space Cowboy" has solid sobbing company. This summer, lean into the dark stuff while sipping the pink stuff.

Crofton crystallizes the duality of heartache, knowing life marches cruelly on despite personal setbacks, but wants to simmer in the pain just a little longer.

For the Kyoto-based, Alabama-born duo of Nice Legs, its band name was more than just an homage to The Room -- it was an homage to friendship that ended up yielding a sorta-lucky break.

The Halifax rock band meditates on mortality, limitations and solitude in tight, shimmery guitar riffs.

Prass sheds Disney princess comparisons and instead gloves up to pole-vault with her first single off The Future and The Past.

For as much swagger as BOSCO drips, her nervous, racing pulse is palpable. The R&B artist's new, Haunted-produced track takes a sharp turn into soul-pop territory.

Light and airy in its sweetness, the song blooms into fluffy, ebullient tufts of cotton candy — only to soon melt in the hot June sun and dry into a hardened candy shell.

Glossy guitar and honeyed vocals help capture an empty relationship in Papercuts' "Do You Really Wanna Know?" The uncertain romance at the song's core may have no real future, but singer Jason Robert Quever still finds a way to cast it in amber.