{"id":24118,"date":"2015-04-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T21:59:14","slug":"southern-roots-rock-grit-american-aquarium-hit-proud-larrys-416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/southern-roots-rock-grit-american-aquarium-hit-proud-larrys-416\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern &#8220;Roots-Rock Grit&#8221; American Aquarium Hit Proud Larry&#8217;s 4\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>American<\/strong> <strong>Aquarium<\/strong> have been perfecting their soulful blend of raw roots rock with nearly a decade of touring across the US. Their new album\u00a0\u2018Wolves\u2019, which\u00a0debuted at #6 on Billboard&#8217;s Heatseekers chart,\u00a0was produced by <strong>Brad<\/strong> <strong>Cook<\/strong> of <strong>Megafaun<\/strong> and is <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BJ-Barham.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24120 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BJ-Barham.jpg?resize=600%2C403\" alt=\"BJ Barham\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BJ-Barham.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/BJ-Barham.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>imaginative alternative rock that blends the twang of the pedal steel with the dark, dirty swirl of two electric guitars. It definitely creates a sound that&#8217;s fit for the roadhouse, the honky tonk and the dive bar.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Listen to the album in full via <strong>Wall<\/strong> <strong>Street<\/strong> <strong>Journal<\/strong> who praised its\u00a0&#8220;roots-rock grit and wistful, road-worn lyrics\u201d: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2015\/01\/28\/american-aquarium-skips-break-up-to-record-new-album-wolves-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2015\/01\/28\/american-aquarium-skips-break-up-to-record-new-album-wolves-exclusive\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">It&#8217;s already been praised by Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Country Weekly, CMT Edge, and Rolling Stone who named American Aquarium as one of the top new country acts to check out this year!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Aquarium have been perfecting their soulful blend of raw roots rock with nearly a decade of touring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":24119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6341,6343,6344,4,53,6342,3325],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-shows","tag-american-aquarium","tag-brad-cook","tag-megafaun","tag-oxford","tag-proud-larrys","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-wolves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AmericanAquariumFEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}