Bee Delores

Bee Delores declares Orville Peck's new album, Mule, one of the best albums of 2026.

Bee Delores reviews Hope Is a Heavy Thing, the urgent new album from Joy Oladokun. "It's long overdue to actually listen to Black women about brutal reality," writes Dolores.

Kam Franklin electrifies the eardrum and slithers into your soul on her genre-blending country funk album Land of the Neon Sun, writes Bee Delores

Bee Delores reviews Aaron Lee Tasjan's latest, Get Over It, Underdog. Tasjan gets at the core of our collective tensions, Delores writes, but the album could have used some editing.

Allison Russell gives us a reprieve from the contamination of today's world on her new album In the Hour of Chaos. Bee Delores writes that it allows us to find ourselves again.

River Shook's solo debut makes the listener ache and feel every twinge of anger, sadness, joy, and love with the heat of a thousand searing cattle irons, writes Bee Delores.

Bee Delores reviews this vital Juneeteenth release. Outlaws' Almanac is a roots mixtape of rebellion and resistance from Lizzie No, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Nick Shoulders, Kaia Kater, Kasey Anderson, and many, many more.

Bobby Dove's new album Fortune Teller probes deep into a search for meaning, purpose, and drive -- all with some killer country hooks, writes Bee Delores.

Queer country legend Rae Spoon returns to their genre assigned at birth -- one full of cunning, needle-point songwriting, writes Bee Delores.

Bee Delores proclaims Wren Carpenter "a beautiful force of nature" on their EP of sparkling demos Charmed, I'm Sure.

In their new album, Tired of Being Relevant, Minneapolis' Ungrateful Little String Band "unleashes hell right out of the gate," writes Bee Delores.

Bee Delores reviews Adam Mac's "extravagant and heartfelt" country pop masterpiece, Southern Spectacle.

If you're heading to Music City for Americanafest, Bee Delores heroically highlighted all the best queer happenings to make your week more fabulous

MORGXN takes a country turn on his outstanding album Heartland: Part I. Bee Delores guides us through this "wallop" of a meditation on pain and belonging in rural America.

Caspar Milquetoast makes heartfelt music with From The Cheap Seats. Bee Delores writes that it's a remarkable debut.

The Rainbow Rodeo staff nominates their favorite queer country albums (so far) of 2025.

Sam Williams melds classic and pop country on his bouncy and confident new album Act II: COUNTRYSTAR -- by Bee Delores.

Bee Delores reviews Winged Victory, Willi Carlisle's exploration of revolution, love, and resistance.

Bee Delores reviews Valley Heart Drive, the new country pop release from New York singer Carley Ridersleeve. The EP brings comfort to anyone going through the messiness of their '20s.

Bee Delores reviews Goodbye Small Head, the galvanized emotional metal of an album by Ezra Furman