While we were waiting for the Avett Brothers to take the stage at the Cabooze Thursday night, I pointed out to my girlfriend that there were not one, not two, but three banjos plugged in and ready for ...

With their banjo/guitar/stand-up bass lineup, earnest vocal harmonies, and back story growing up on a North Carolina farm, the Avett Brothers seem like the kind of old-time folk band that emerges ...

Music fans may know him best as a banjo player, multi-instrumentalist and Avett Brothers member, but Scott Avett is a visual artist, too. In fact, he has designed several album covers for the group -- ...

In September 2007, I sat with my mother in a tiny Thai food joint in Charlottesville, Va. The restaurant connected to the back of the late Satellite Ballroom, where Concord, N.C.’s The Avett ...

Seeing the Avett Brothers for the first time is like being inducted into some hillbilly cult. The brothers, Scott and Seth Avett (guitars, banjo, drums, keys and vocals), bassist Bob Crawford, and ...

For an hour and a half Friday night at the Nokia Theatre, the banjo was the coolest thing around as the Avett Brothers had something to prove to the crowd of indie hipsters in downtown L.A. By Lesley ...

So you were among the many who fretted the major-label deal Concord, N.C., country boys The Avett Brothers consummated when they hopped on a plane to Rick Rubin’s Document Room studio in Malibu to ...