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Hard-Rocking Folk: The Avett Brothers
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World Cafe

Hard-Rocking Folk: The Avett Brothers

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Though its members recently shaved, The Avett Brothers long marched in the seemingly endless parade of bearded indie-folk acts to rise to prominence in recent years. But with its raucous live shows, it may just be the hardest-rocking band ever to win an award from the Americana Music Association.

The Avett Brothers in Studio on World Cafe 9/24/09

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All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

The Best Music Of 2009

All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

We could tell early on that 2009 was going to be an outstanding year for music. Here are the top 25, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners.

All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

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Exclusive First Listen: The Avett Brothers
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Exclusive First Listen: The Avett Brothers

With their roots in punk and bluegrass, Seth and Scott Avett know how and when to careen wildly, almost recklessly. But in their albums as The Avett Brothers, they're just as likely to ruminate softly on devotion, desire and regret, in austere, sweet-natured songs that exude a sort of hard-won decency. Hear the band's much-anticipated major-label debut, I and Love and You, in its entirety here for the week leading up to its release on Sept. 29.

The Avett Brothers: Stomping And Hollering
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Song Of The Day

The Avett Brothers: Stomping And Hollering

It's a tribute to The Avett Brothers' considerable charms that "Slight Figure of Speech" never loses track of the group's warmth or generosity of spirit: Speedy, sunny and all too brief at just a shade over two minutes, it finds the band maintaining a perfect balance of studio slickness and garage-band glory.

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The Avett Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert

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Tiny Desk

The Avett Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert

With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at every workplace in America, the band would be a world-beating colossus. For proof, listen to this performance in the NPR Music offices.

Audio Only: The Avett Brothers' Tiny Desk Concert

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SXSW 2009: The Avett Brothers

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SXSW 2009: The Avett Brothers

Hailing from North Carolina, the band takes Southern music traditions and merges them into a uniquely catchy musical sensibility. Hear The Avett Brothers premiere songs from a forthcoming album.

The Avett Brothers in Concert at SXSW 2009 - 03/19/2009

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The Avett Brothers: Fate And Consequences

For guys at the epicenter of so much music-world chatter, Seth and Scott Avett sure spend a lot of time ruminating gently on the nature of memory. About halfway through "Tear Down the House," their unsentimental bravado is revealed as a desperate plea for escape from the past.

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All Songs Considered

Eno And Byrne: Together Again After 27 Years

We've got a Brian Eno and David Byrne sneak preview. Also, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Andrew W.K., Van Dyke Parks and Inara George, Earlimart, The Avett Brothers and more.

Eno And Byrne: Together Again After 27 Years

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Favorite Sessions

The Avett Brothers: Beyond Blood

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The Avett Brothers' members aren't all brothers, but it's hard to tell from their close musical kinship. In a session on KEXP, the band talks about breaking out on its seventh album and growing up in punk and hardcore bands. It also performs two new songs.

The Avett Brothers in Studio on KEXP 4/11/08

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Music Interviews

Long Route to Bluegrass: The Avett Brothers

NPR's John Ydstie speaks with members of the Avett Brothers band about their new album, Emotionalism. The three Avett Brothers, Seth Avett, Scott Avett and Bob Crawford, combine their early love of pop music and heavy metal with their newfound interest in bluegrass; the results are quite unique.

Long Route to Bluegrass: The Avett Brothers

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