Daily Edit | Jun 9

Sturgill Simpson's Mutiny After Midnight — released under his Johnny Blue Skies alias — was one of the best albums of the year. At first it was only available physically (though it was briefly on YouTube), but today is the country-rock maverick's birthday and to celebrate he put it on streaming with a bonus cover.

This isn't necessarily a surprise; he said in March that the plan had been "a physical only release for at least the first 4-6 weeks to support and show solidarity with independent record shops and to promote an increasingly bygone physical and tangible connection between music and music fans." -Stereogum

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