Brothers Adam, Jack and Ryan– known collectively as AJR– are pop-rock multi-instrumentalist siblings who write, produce and mix their own sounds.

Known for smash hits "I'm Ready," "Weak" and "Come Hang Out," the band has just released its third studio album, Neotheater, earlier this month. The album features their Top 20 alternative radio hit, "100 Bad Days."

You may have seen their Tour Update episode, but we wanted to share more of our chat with AJR where they talked about risk-taking, differentiating perspectives and all things Neotheater! Dive more into AJR and their new music right here:

On the New Version of Neotheater

Jack: "When we started to write Neotheater, it's kind of exactly what we said in the trailer. A lot of the songs that came out originally... we had the reaction of 'Oh yeah, I could see this on the album,' 'Yeah, this could definitely be on the album.' After we had a bunch of those songs, we realized that this wasn't the reaction we wanted to have. We wanted to be like, 'This HAS to go on,' or 'Why would we ever put this on the album?' Those two sides are why it's really fun to make music but if we're gonna make a 12-song album of 'This could be us,' or 'Maybe people could like this,' that's not fun for us at all. So we had a lot of those songs and we realized ok, maybe we should start taking a different direction.

"We started saying "Why not?" That was kind of the motto of the album. We kind of said 'Why not, let's throw this in,' 'Why not, that's weird, let's throw that in.'"

On The Album's Title

Ryan: "We don't want to talk too much about it because my favorite thing is when people give us what they think it's about... like, I think those are the best movies, the 'I think he died at the end,' the 'I think he didn't.'

"We definitely know what we think it is but we kind of invented this world we got to go into where we didn't have to learn all the lessons about being in your twenties and we didn't need to become jaded and disillusioned and Neotheater kind of became that world for us but we want to keep it as, whoever's listening, it can kind of be your world into that."

On the Album's Perspectives

Ryan: "You go from the tour bus to the venue to meet people... you're around the same crew... It's really hard to write an album that relates to everybody in that mindset. We took a lot of classes that had nothing to do with music. I took an evolution class on the history of the human species and the human origins, and as soon as you think of time in terms of not, 'We posted this on Instagram and it got this many likes!' but when you think about the human race from hundreds of thousands of years, you begin to look at the world with a outside perspective and you're like, 'Here's a weird song to sing from this perspective.'"

On the Tour Being Like a Broadway Show

Jack: "I think that when you go and see this next tour that we're gonna go on... you're gonna really see that this was kind of meticulously worked on. That this exact moment is perfectly in time with this exact song and this exact note, and you're gonna be like, 'Ok wow, this was actually thought out and this was actually processed,' instead of just getting on stage and playing the 12 songs and throwing a couple of tricks in there."

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The AJR brothers are hitting the road this fall for a North American tour in support of the album. Visit their website to purchase tickets and check out a complete list of dates below!

AJR North American tour dates:

September 20 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Stir Cove

September 26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall

September 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

September 30 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre

October 1 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds

October 3 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Great Saltair

October 5 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

October 10 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall

October 16 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit

October 18 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live!

October 19 – Indianapolis, IN @ Indiana Farmers Coliseum

October 20 – Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live

October 22 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory

October 23 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee

October 25 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater

October 26 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant

October 27 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion

October 29 – Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

October 30 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live

October 31 – Houston, TX @ Revention Music Center

November 6 – New Orleans, LA @ Fillmore New Orleans

November 8 – Orland, FL @ Hard Rock Live

November 9 – Tampa, FL @ USF Sun Dome

November 12 – Atlanta, GA @ Infinite Energy Center

November 16 – Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena

November 19 – Buffalo, NY @ Shea’s Performing Arts Center

November 21 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem

November 22 – Pittsburgh, PA @ UPMC Events Center