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http://www.npr.org/2012/08/29/160188286/first-listen-the-avett-brothers-the-carpenter?sc=tw&cc=twmp#playlist

8/30/2012 12:24:13 PM

Whats in it for me?

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[Edited on August 30, 2012 at 12:35 PM. Reason : I thought the avett fad was over]

8/30/2012 12:35:06 PM

Hipsters don't listen to the Avett Bro's anymore?

[Edited on August 30, 2012 at 1:38 PM. Reason : Just finished listening. It's good.]

8/30/2012 1:37:55 PM

Listening now

8/30/2012 4:03:59 PM

^^ They're a bro band, b.

Did Rick Rubin produce this one via email, too?

8/30/2012 6:36:28 PM

No way I'm touching this. Country bubble gum pop, basically.

8/30/2012 7:38:35 PM

There's a really good duet with Taylor Swift. But my favorite is the one song written by Brad Paisley.

[Edited on August 30, 2012 at 8:22 PM. Reason : You are a chump]

8/30/2012 8:22:24 PM

The funny thing is that Brad Paisley can run circles around any Avett on any stringed instrument.

8/30/2012 9:12:31 PM

I listened to this earlier today. It sounds like they are on autopilot.

It's elevator music.

[Edited on August 30, 2012 at 10:07 PM. Reason : Hh]

8/30/2012 10:07:16 PM

^that's about the perfect description.

8/31/2012 9:14:11 AM

Yeh, this is really bad. I actually liked their previous album (I know I'm in the minority there) and Emotionalism is great. This new one is a chore to get through even once

[Edited on September 1, 2012 at 4:17 AM. Reason : G]

9/1/2012 4:16:55 AM

Quote :

"The funny thing is that Brad Paisley can run circles around any Avett on any stringed instrument."

Ha, yeah Brad Paisley can pick a Telecaster to within an inch of its life.

9/5/2012 11:04:36 AM

well screw you guys, I like it

9/5/2012 12:46:52 PM

word. i also like what i have heard. yall are haters

also, i hope hope hope they are playing around here on new year's eve again! anyone heard anything?

9/5/2012 2:54:00 PM

their venues are only getting bigger, so don't expect to ever see the intimate NYE shows of 4-5 years ago and earlier. playing the Bi-Lo Center last NYE is evidence of that. hell, the NYE show in Charlotte at Belk Theater was probably the worst show i've seen by them of the handful i've seen. and it was also my last.

i still like the band and the new album isn't terrible, just boring. they aren't a band I jump through hoops for like they once were. it's ok to grow apart.

9/5/2012 4:06:44 PM

dear god i hate the avett brothers. but not as much as i hate mumford & sons.

9/5/2012 4:28:22 PM

we need a definitive list of Bro Bands

9/5/2012 4:41:15 PM

^

^^ those two

plus every jam band ever

plus incubus

done

9/5/2012 5:32:22 PM

Haven't listened to it yet, but I enjoy The Avett Bros.

Also many other "bro bands." I would say "fuck the haters" but I'll be nice since they are already suffering enough pretending to enjoy the barely musical hipster garbage they listen to.

9/5/2012 5:41:37 PM

I dont really consider all jam bands bro bands. String cheese incident isn't really.

Also 311 and sublime are most bro bro bands

[Edited on September 5, 2012 at 6:19 PM. Reason : Bro]

9/5/2012 6:18:32 PM

if a middle-aged guy plays a song of theirs on an acoustic guitar at one of the many horrible bars downtown/on Glenwood South, they might be a bro band

/Foxworthy'd

9/5/2012 6:21:27 PM

We can't forget DMB and Dispatch.

I like a lot of bro bands myself, not hating.

9/5/2012 6:43:15 PM

The expediency of my reply proved to be my undoing.

Sublime is indeed the ultimate bro band.

9/5/2012 6:55:57 PM

they should cover ANGEL WITCH by ANGEL WITCH

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9/5/2012 7:21:53 PM

I might be a bro.

9/5/2012 7:24:30 PM

i hate bros, but apparently i love bro bands.

9/6/2012 8:26:54 AM

let's not forget the Rusted Root wave in the late 90s early 00s.


also, Weekend Excursion

9/6/2012 8:38:37 AM

I like them. Don't know about this new album yet. It's got that Rick Rubin gloss to it.

9/6/2012 9:20:57 AM

Slightly Stoopid
SOJA (Soldiers of Jah's Army!)

9/6/2012 9:27:46 AM

Quote :

"Sublime is indeed the ultimate bro band."

i don't think they were before they got popular, put out that last album, and he OD'd. Back in the mid-early-90s in raleigh, lots of punks and members of the "mod" and "ska" revival were big into sublime.

wait, what do you mean by "bro"? like "frat-bro"? i mean, if avett brothers now are a "bro" band, sublime definitely wasn't a "bro" band.

9/6/2012 9:32:28 AM

sublime is definitely a bro band. most of the more popular bro bands don't start off that way.


O.A.R. - another bro band

9/6/2012 9:48:03 AM

OAR, ftw

9/6/2012 9:51:41 AM

I just can't see how you label a band that covered descendants and mid-80s bad religion as a "bro" band. maybe they evolved into a band a lot of "bros" liked after Bradley was dead, but they weren't a bro band while they were around.

but again, what is a "bro" band? are you talking about a band that the frat boys like?

9/6/2012 10:45:21 AM

Widespread Panic and Jack Johnson would also be bro music

9/6/2012 11:20:42 AM

i'm confused...have we decided that if a band made up of only male musicians becomes too well-liked, they're then classified as a "bro" band and the cool folks aren't allowed to listen to them anymore?

i can never remember who i'm supposed to like and who i'm supposed to ridicule

9/6/2012 12:47:25 PM

Jack Johnson is a damn good call on bro music.

this dude i went to law school with fucking loved some OAR. he was a really cool guy, and not a bro type, he just liked awful music.

9/6/2012 1:14:30 PM

^^

if you have to ask its too late.

9/6/2012 1:38:02 PM

well, nuts

i guess i'll just not be cool, then...and all those people i don't hang out with anyway won't like me

9/6/2012 2:00:35 PM

I never said you weren't cool. I just said if you may be a bro.

9/6/2012 2:41:39 PM

Quote :

"I might be a bro."

9/6/2012 4:26:13 PM

the avetts have quite a large following now, and i dont think they'll ever be the same. but i still love their older stuff - gleam, jubilee, emotionalism.

i don't understand the bro band thing. were they always a bro band? or did they earn this title with the expanded fan-base? i assume it was the latter.

back on-topic -- carpenter has too much rubin, too much production. i'm still holding out hope that they'll eventually return to their roots and produce an album on their own.

9/11/2012 8:29:36 PM

listen to what your ears like. who gives a fuck, god damn.

9/11/2012 10:51:18 PM

Quote :

"i'm still holding out hope that they'll eventually return to their roots and produce an album on their own."

that won't happen until long after the shine has worn off. though they've been around longer with a dedicated fan base they are definitely riding the wave created by Mumford & Sons that is generating a lot of support in an older demographic. For lack of a better word it's this generation's "dad rock".

that being said, the album has grown on me a bit more but it will never be a Mignonette

9/12/2012 8:12:19 AM

This album has grown on me considerably. I still hate the more poppy songs on the record (namely, PGFM and I Never Knew You).

It is also the first TAB record to not contain at least one song that really blows me away.

9/13/2012 12:24:16 PM

1 bro band vote for band of horses

9/13/2012 12:31:54 PM

The lyrics are still typical Avett quality, but musically it all sounds like Rick Rubin top-40 molded bullshit. Pretty disappointing considering their potential.

9/13/2012 12:34:51 PM

Kings of Leon has absolutely digressed to bro band status.

and everything else in this thread, for sure.

and yeah, Avett Bros have been poopoo for a solid 4-5 years.

[Edited on September 13, 2012 at 6:39 PM. Reason : afddssdf]

9/13/2012 6:38:35 PM

but also, this:

Quote :

"listen to what your ears like. who gives a fuck, god damn."

9/13/2012 6:39:51 PM

Fuck the avett brothers

Kodiak Farm Boys for life

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9/28/2012 12:01:56 PM

Got our NYE tix last night

9/28/2012 12:03:17 PM