American Aquarium, Abby Hamilton

Taking its name from the first line of Wilco’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” American Aquarium never got as big as that band. But it has been releasing consistently solid alternative country albums for nearly two decades, and that alone is impressive. The North Carolina band’s latest, The Fear of Standing Still, dropped in July, and it’s packed with grit and guts, anchored by incisive lyrics that broach the complexity of Southern identity, the intersection of generational trauma and the dismantling of reproductive rights. Kentucky-based country singer-songwriter Abby Hamilton opens.