Direct from the Inbox: “Hi, I’m [REDACTED], My artist name Is [REDACTED], My new album [REDACTED] Is slated to release on March 20th, so to build some hype up for the album I was hoping if you could listen to my previous releases and review them?” Oh, sure thing, pally. No problem. After all, that’s […]

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