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Okay, so Resonators is going to be dropping at some point tomorrow evening along with Billboard BREAKDOWN, so stay tuned!

So when I reviewed Yelawolf's Trunk Muzik III  earlier this year, I made the observation that you could tell he wasn't happy with ...

Okay, extremely late for this one, but considering how many of my friends have recommended this time and time again, I figured I'd ta...

So we've reached the part of the year where the major releases have started to seriously dry up and I'm stuck poring over what I...

I'm honestly not sure how this will be received - silent majority acts like him always get a bit of an odd response, so we'll hav...

So I'm not too proud to admit that I screwed up in a big way by not covering Luke Combs' debut album. Now to be completely fair,...

Yeah, this is going to get messy... sorry y'all, I wanted to love this as much as you did, I am  a fan... but I have to be honest too...

When Miranda Lambert released The Weight Of These Wings  in 2016, I can argue it simultaneously opened many doors, but also closed many as...

Well this was... mildly disappointing? I wanted to be more over the moon for both of these albums, but I did see it coming, tbh. Next u...

So I've gone back and forth so often on whether it's a good idea for artists to release more than one album a year, especially in ...

Huh, I honestly thought this would attract more interest... eh, makes my plans for 2020 all the more valid, I guess. Anyway, I feel lik...

Okay, I'll just say it: in my reviews of Jon Pardi up to this point, the majority of the problem is me. And this is one of those utt...

Well, this was well-worth the review... let's see if the trolls decide to come down on this one... Anyway, I'm on a kick for th...

This is the sort of album where it would be too easy to set impossible expectations... providing, of course, you could contextualize a rel...

Well damn, this came right the fuck out of nowhere! Great project, absolutely worth hearing, make time to check it out! Next up... hone...

So fun question: if you're an indie country act who puts out an album that only your diehard fanbase hears about, does that count as a...

Yeah, I wanted to like this a lot more than I did... eh, it happens. On the plus side, I found a surprise country album that actually d...

You know, I keep looking back on the last two years of Patreon scheduling with some degree of exasperation - nothing against you guys, a h...

Hmm, a little surprised by how well this is getting received... guess the benefit of low expectations will take something a long way...? ...

So I brought this up originally on Billboard BREAKDOWN a month or so ago and I think it's important to state it here to provide some c...