New, Exclusive Interview with Multi-Talented Avi Kaplan

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What has two legs, a raw talent of your favorite pop star (who arguably may even exceed it), and a voice of a silky smooth angel? Oh, and—lest we forget—a multi-faceted musical expert who knows how to take one genre and slap his own brand of playful nuance on it?

Because this isn’t just any artist making the leap from one genre to another.

This is Avi Kaplan—yes, the same Avi from Pentatonix, the one with a voice so deep it makes the floorboards vibrate—and not only is he stepping into a new sound; he’s building a whole new world inside of it.

Avi is many things. But, similar to what an infamous rapper once proudly proclaimed, Avi is everything that he's not.

Avi’s not a country artist. He’s not a folk artist. He’s not even Americana in the traditional sense. What he is, in my humble, untrained, admittedly emotionally-biased opinion, is an absolute storm of mood, tone, and intention.

He’s creating music that doesn’t just fit into a genre. It sorta rewrites the emotional temperature of the room you’re in.

And I don’t say that lightly. Avi’s sound feels like what happens when you take the haunting sincerity of mountain hymns, blend it with modern folk arrangements, and wrap it all up in a voice so uniquely rich and resonant, it feels like it belongs to some deeper, older version of Earth. It rumbles, it aches, it even lifts.

But here’s the thing. What makes Avi’s music feel so alive isn’t just the voice, or the arrangements, or the live-off-the-land production style that makes each track sound hand-carved—it’s him. It’s the way he leans into every song like it holds a secret he’s still trying to figure out.

Avi doesn’t hide behind his voice, he uses it, like a lantern in a cave. And, somehow, every time it leads him somewhere new.

That’s why I’m sharing this interview. Not just because I’m a fan (which I am), or because I think more people should be listening to his latest work (which you should), but because artists like Avi are rare: the kind who could rest on their legacy, but instead keep carving out new paths with hands full of soil, silence, and soul.

Avi Kaplan was kind enough to sit down with me for a one-on-one conversation on May 21st, 2025 ahead of his show (with Guthrie Brown) at the Elm in Bozeman, MT, on June 7th, 2025. Tickets are available at logjampresents.com.

Listen to the full interview below, courtesy of Logjam Presents and Townsquare Media.