REVIEW: The Avett Brothers @ The Electric Factory, 10/16

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REVIEW: The Avett Brothers @ The Electric Factory, 10/16

POSTED: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 9:00 PM

Filed Under: Music | Show concert photos

Rockin' out and makin' out.

Scott Yorko

Tight bros from way back when

Banjos and cellos and sing-along love songs, these are a few of my new favorite things. I felt soft telling friends I was going to go see a folk band play, but after the Avett Brothers played at the Electric Factory on Friday, I contemplated following them to NYC the next night.

Scott Yorko

Joe Kwon rocks the cello

With the release of their new album, I and Love and You ' that creepy face and skull CD staring up at you next to the registers at Starbucks ' Scotty and Seth Avett had plenty of weapons in their musical arsenal, both rotating turns on the keyboard, drums and guitar, while Scotty dominated the banjo.

The band blended so many sounds together that you could rock out in one song and make out during the next. You could also just crawl around on the floor for five songs looking for your hoodie like that one drunk girl with the embarrassed boyfriend, but the price of beer was too jacked up for me to reach that level.

The brothers are so alluring and Joe Kwon so animated with his cello that one could almost forget the bassist, Bob Crawford, was stringing all of these melodies together were it not for the Phillies hat that he busted out at the end, a fine move on his part.

Scott Yorko

'And the stage belongs to Bob.

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