New Music Friday: 13th Floor New Album Picks: July 26, 2024
It’s New Music Friday and we’re closing out July with some excellent new releases. One of our Fave Americana bands, American Aquarium returns along with two Kiwi gals.
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American Aquarium – The Fear Of Standing Still (Losing Side/Thirty Tigers)
American Aquarium turns up the heat following the relatively mellow Chicamacomico (2022), despite front man BJ Barham’s new-found domestic bliss that finds him sober, married and a father.
13th Floor Top Concerts Of 2022 as chosen by Marty Duda
It’s been a weird and wild year but we did have some excellent live music to get us through it. Here now is The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda with his top 10 concerts of the year.
AmericanaFest 2022: Day 2: From The Heavy Heavy to American Aquarium
AmericanaFest 2022 was now in full swing! Here’s what we got up to on Day 2…interviews, awards shows and lots of live music.
American Aquarium Take Us To Chicamacomico: Interview
American Aquarium bandleader BJ Barham returns to The 13th Floor to talk about Chicamacomico, their new, very personal album about loss, grief and the healing power of music.
American Aquarium – All I Needed (New Song)
American Aquarium has become one of our favourite bands here at 13th Floor. So, we’re very excited to bring you their new song, All I Needed.
Watch: Part 2 Of Our Conversation with American Aquarium’s BJ Barnham
“Call out the bad when you see it!” That’s what American Aquarium frontman BJ Barnham does during Part 2 of this 13th Floor interview. Watch or read as BJ discusses recording their album Lamentations with producer Shooter Jennings, how he re-built his band and how the recent events in the US have affected American Aquarium.
Watch: Part One of this Powerful Interview with BJ Barnham of American Aquarium
Lamentations is the name of the latest album by American Aquarium, and it just may be the best record of 2020. The main creative force behind American Aquarium is vocalist/songwriter BJ Barnham. The 13th Floor’s Marty Duda spoke to BJ from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina… deep in the heart of Dixie.
American Aquarium – Lamentations (New West)
According to Wikipedia, Lamentations is is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE and is one of the books of the Old Testament in the Christian bible. As the Jews lamented the destruction of Jerusalem, so does American Aquarium singer/songwriter BJ Barham lament the state of the US…the South in particular.