For the last two decades, American Aquarium frontman BJ Barham has seemingly willed his band to survive. Armed with an incisive pen and a love for Whiskeytown and Drive-by Truckers on one hand and Springsteen and Petty on the other, […]
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B.J. Barham has spent the last couple of years trying to make musical sense of his own wreckage, so it’s not surprising to see the resulting set of songs named after a place that historically provided maritime rescues for those […]
Discerning fans may have already seen frontman BJ Barham’s posts on social media earlier this week, but country rockers (and weepers) American Aquarium have officially announced their ninth studio album. The 10-track Chicamacomico is due out June 10 via […]
One of my new year’s resolutions is to feature more individual photographers. First up is Chad Cochran, better known in the music photography world as cowtownchad, whom I first met several years ago at an Ohio festival. Since then we […]
BJ Barham of American Aquarium, Columbus, Ohio 2016
BJ Barham of American Aquarium at AmericanaFest 2018
Well, June is here and we hope you’re buckled up, because it’s going to be a busy month for new releases. Here on Day 1 alone, we’ve got new albums from Neko Case, Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American […]
[Content warning: general discussions of sexual assault and violence. There is a brief description of a personal experience at the beginning of the third section. I’ll put another reminder at that point in the article.] I. Imagine me, an awkward […]
BJ Barham of American Aquarium in Falkenberg, Sweden.
BJ Barham of American Aquarium in Falkenberg, Sweden.
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