As Brad Paisley celebrates yesterday’s release of his very cool new album, Moonshine in the Trunk, there’s a flurry of news, reviews, tidbits, and more…here’s some of what’s happening!

• Brad had great fun leaking songs from Moonshine in the Trunk via Twitter and enlisting some of his celebrity friends to help him do it, and Brad took to Twitter again this week to give everyone the scoop with a video message, as he tweeted from @BradPaisley: Here’s why I leaked the album. http://on.fb.me/1wuAaXL
• “Perfect Storm” has just been announced as the second single from Moonshine in the Trunk, and the song is ready to take flight on the airwaves as Billboard.com promises that the power ballad is “one of those love songs that says what women want to hear and what men wish they could say.  … It’s the new single, and rightfully so – it’s got hit written all over it.”
• Moonshine in the Trunk is Amazon’s Album of the Week! You can pick up your copy on Amazon at http://smarturl.it/moonshineamz.
• The Washington Post chats music and more with Brad in this new feature, which says, in part, “His music doesn’t just chronicle the America we live in. It envisions the America he wants to live in. … He’s the closest country music has come to Norman Rockwell.”
• Rolling Stone Country is smiling along with a look back at some of Brad’s funniest tour pranks…you can see the story, online here, and take a look at their conversation with Brad about his new music in this feature.
• The latest issue of People magazine is celebrating Brad’s Moonshine in the Trunk as #1 on this week’s “People Picks” list of cool things, touting the album as “the perfect soundtrack to your Labor Day barbecue”!
• Praise has been coming from all around for Brad’s Moonshine in the Trunk album, including Tim McGraw who tweeted to Brad from @TheTimMcGraw: congrats on the new album Mr Paisley!!… nice work man! @BradPaisley #MoonshineInTheTrunk