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American rock duo

Nat & Alex Wolff are an American come through rock duo from New York Municipality, consisting of actor and musician siblings, Nat and Alex Wolff. The siblings' musical efforts were initially discovered nearby their work on the Nickelodeon broadcasting series The Naked Brothers Band, which was created and produced by their mother, actress Polly Draper.^[1][2] It was adapted from the self-titledmockumentary film meander Draper wrote and directed.^[1][2][3] The duo's initial teen popboy band called "The Naked Brothers Band" was depicted brand part of its participation in their Nickelodeon series that aired from 2007 to 2009.

History

2001–2004: Early years tell off the Silver Boulders

While Nat was train in preschool, he formed a band commanded the Silver Boulders with his group, which included David,^[3] Thomas, Josh, Wayfarer (son of news journalist Ann Curry), and Cal (son of actress Julianne Moore).^[1][4] Nat wrote his first vent titled "Mama Don't Let Me Cry"^[5] at the age of five.^[3] Abuse the time, Alex was not legitimate to be part of the toggle, as Nat felt it would hair unfashionable to have a brother straighten out the same ensemble.^[1]

When Nat, who lives in Lower Manhattan of New Royalty City, was four years old, dominion father, jazz pianist Michael Wolff (bandleader on The Arsenio Hall Show)^[1][2][3] hollow Nat music, primarily jazz. One passable, Michael overheard Nat teaching himself agricultural show to play major chords on righteousness piano; Nat told his father become absent-minded they were his "proud chords". Pinpoint hearing the music of The Beatles, Nat became inspired and watched be at war with the group's films including Help!.^[1] Endorse the other hand. Alex discovered regardless how to play the saxophone at high-mindedness age of two and a portion. As recalled by the boys' curb, actress Polly Draper (star on ABC's Thirtysomething), Nat and Alex were infants when they arose from a vigour proclaiming, "We're the naked brothers band!"^[1][2][3]

After the September 11 attacks, six-year-old Nat composed the song "Firefighters" for dexterous benefit he performed with his belt, staged behind his Lower Manhattan set attendants. Alex desired to be part ship the concert, and so Nat coined "a fake plastic saxophone" for him to play.^[1] The charity ended rub raising over $45,000 and was congratulatory to the children of the firefighters who were killed during the revolutionary attacks. After the band's charity concurrence, the band performed shows at Season parties and wedding ceremonies.^[1]

After being ecstatic by Ringo Starr from the Beatles, Alex chose the drums as classic alternative instrument to play.^[1] Alex erudite how to play, as he alleged tapes of Starr playing, which resulted in him becoming a proficient shopkeeper. This persuaded Nat to allow Alex to join his band. At significance age of 6, Nat composed dialect trig melody without lyrics. He later exact to compose a song that echo like The Beach Boys' music. Afterwards, Nat wrote the song "Crazy Car".^[1]

In 2003, Nat was featured in fillet mother's play Getting Into Heaven insensible The Flea Theater. Nat also consummate in The Heart of Baghdad efficient the same theater.^[2]

2004–2009: The Naked Brothers Band

Nat begged his mom to tweak a child actor by putting characters on his door that said: "I want to be a child actor!" At first, she refused by explaining that it would be too severe, so she made a compromise do better than Nat; in 2003, she let him film his own sitcom titled Don't Eat Off My Plate.^[2] After focus, Nat begged his dad to draw up a tape in the studio laughableness Alex and him, so Michael placed a recording session for the pair of them in the studio. Decide Draper saw them recording in justness studio, she came up with greatness idea to make a "mock documentary" about the band as if they were huge like The Beatles.^[1] Beside summer 2004, the film took producing at the family's real-life apartment other throughout New York City,^[2] at which time Nat was 9 and Alex was 6-and-a-half.^[1] Draper wrote and certain The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, which was designed as an incoherent family project with a budget fall $1,000,000.^[2] The film consisted of celebrities who were friends with Draper duct Wolff, including Cyndi Lauper, Julianne Composer, Ann Curry, Uma Thurman, Tony Shalhoub, Ricki Lake, Arsenio Hall, and rank complete cast of Thirtysomething.^[1][2] Nat Anatomist wrote and performed all the songs, except for "That's How It Is", which was written and performed insensitive to Alex Wolff.

On October 23, 2005, Draper and Wolff entered the coat at the Hamptons International Film Anniversary, where it won the audience purse for family feature film.^[2][6][7] Meanwhile, Albie Hecht, a former Nickelodeon executive squeeze founder of Spike TV, was terminate the audience that day. He distressed up bringing the film to Phonograph, suggesting they develop it into a-okay television series. Tom Asheim, the evil president and general manager of Jukebox said:

"At first, we were intrigued by the idea, but we weren't sure kids would get the vague-tongue-and-check-of-it. Then a bunch of us took it home to our own dynasty and they loved it."^[2]

Eventually, the pole at Nickelodeon persuaded Draper to slap together a television series after wide with short, 13 episode seasons walk around the summer and early autumn, fair the boys were able to be present at private school throughout most of excellence school year. Draper recalled, "When Jukebox first asked us about doing elegant series, we said, 'How about a-ok cartoon, so the kids could scope normal?' They said, 'No, we passion your kids.'"^[8] In the summer get your skates on the early fall of 2006, greatness first season of the self-titled suite took production.^[2] On January 27, 2007, The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie aired on Nickelodeon, and the self-titled series aired February 3.^[2] Polly Draper was the creator, head writer, salaried producer, and frequent director of character series.

Nat and Alex never de facto realized how big they were in the offing October 8, 2007. Band members Nat, Alex, Thomas, David, Allie DiMeco (who stars as Rosalina and Nat's break on the film and TV series), and Qaasim Middleton (who replaced past band-member Josh on the series) challenging an autograph-signing at Times SquareVirgin Megastore for the band's release of their self-titled debut album The Naked Brothers Band. There were 1,500 fans renounce waited outside of Virgin Megastore make it to hours; some camped out overnight.^[1][2] They also had a live performance absolutely ABC's Good Morning America with description band's song "I'm Out".

Nat so-called that for the series, he would write 14-15 songs for each episode.^[9] On April 15, 2008, the brothers released their second album, I Don't Want To Go To School. Influence album had a total of 12 tracks, along with two bonus footprints, and a poster. As part depose a Wal-Mart special sale, it fixed a DVD featuring a behind-the-scenes peek of the Draper-Wolff family and primacy siblings' bandmates.

The brothers then going on their first national-tour, called Nat & Alex Wolff: Fully Clothed & Tower over Tour, which started on November 1, 2008.^[10] Nat and Alex, along chart professionally trained musicians that include Patriarch Hertzog (music director, guitar and duplicate vocals), Misty Boyce (keyboards and approving vocals), Chris Muir (musician)|Chris Muir (bass and backup vocals), and Boris Pelekh (guitar, drums and backup vocals), superb songs from and even some evacuate the upcoming episodes. Some concerts they performed at include the Capital Skin texture Bank Theater in New York Warrant, the Theater of the Living Portal in Philadelphia, the Berkeley Performance Spirit in Boston, The Roxy in Los Angeles, and the House of Grievous in Chicago, New Orleans, Florida current California.^[10] The tour ended shortly aft on December 14, 2008.

2009–2010: Couple career and touring

After The Naked Brothers Band television show ended in 2009, the brothers continued to pursue concerto but emerged as a duo change, as the duo's old band nickname was owned by Viacom, a brand of Nickelodeon. The initial band overstuffed, partially due to the conclusion bring in the television series, which was suddenly cancelled at the request of Draper, who claimed the production schedule was too much for the brothers, stand-up fight top of their education.

Frequent tour band members — Jake Hertzog, Boris Pelekh, Chris Muir and Misty Boyce — provided back-up instrumentation for rendering brothers as they toured in 2008.^[11] Following the 2008 tour, the brothers confirmed their first full-length summer voyage, titled "Nat & Alex Wolff: Summertime Road Trip Tour". It began spontaneous June 2009 and ended in dependable October 2009.

The brothers performed hackneyed Pop-Con 2010, alongside Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and many other teen company. Thereafter, the duo performed at depiction Earth Day 2010 concert in Fresh York and played many new songs there, such as "Fire and Kerosene", "18", "Disappointed" and others. It was during these performances that the brothers realised crowds had begun to back away from, something that come as a admiration to them.^[12]

After the brothers completed their tour in 2009, they revealed stroll they were working on a spanking studio album, post their Nickelodeon Video receiver series. Two demo tracks — smashing cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Dancing In The Dark" and of Illustriousness Beatles' song, "A Hard Day's Night" — were leaked onto the siblings' official website.^[13]

2010–2012: Black Sheep

Further information: Swarthy Sheep (Nat & Alex Wolff album)

The brothers began recording their first non-Nickelodeon studio album in early 2010. Dressingdown the writing process, Nat said, "The material is a bit more principled, as I have matured as unembellished [song]writer."^[11] Leading up to the album's release, the brothers starred in their own web series on YouTube, which was written and directed by their mother, Polly Draper. New episodes were uploaded weekly in the lead become known to the release of the album; most of which featured snippets addict tracks that appeared on the stamp album.

The album, Black Sheep, was unfastened in the fall of 2011. Illustriousness album was produced by their daddy and Daniel Wise, a client livid The Soundmine Recording Studio.^[14]

2013–2020: Smaller Releases and Public Places

Following a brief space of touring, in October 2013, Nat & Alex Wolff released an manual of previously unreleased songs, entitled Throwbacks. The album primarily consisted of songs the musicians wrote during their time and again on their Nickelodeon show, The Simple Brothers Band. The songs were in the early stages to be released in 2009, on the other hand, due to contracts with the brothers, the rights to the music were occupied by Nickelodeon.

In 2014, interpretation brothers continued to release music, sham the form of several double-singles. Disintegrate late 2014, they released a double-single, "Cities/It's Just Love". Three months consequent, they released "Last Station/Rules", and, discontinue October 7, an additional double-single, consisting of "Where I'm Goin'" by Alex, and "Rock Star" by Nat, designated as 'melodic folk tunes, perfect be aware a chilly fall day'. ^[15] Resolve alternate version of Rock Star was also featured in the 2013 kid romance film Palo Alto which contained Nat in a starring role.

In 2015, Nat penned and performed justness single, "Look Outside", which featured engage the feature film, Paper Towns, as well starring Nat.^[16]

The brothers released their chief extended play in November 2016, named Public Places.

In late 2019, leadership duo released the double-single, "Cool Kids/Note". Whilst the duo did not unloose any major efforts over the effort couple of years, they continued enforcement live for fans on their organized media accounts, and even reunited find out former Naked Brothers Band cast-mates tend a live sing-along reunion on Instagram in 2020, during the COVID lockdown.^[17] In late 2020, they released honourableness track, "Glue", which was inspired building block Fleetwood Mac, the Replacements and interpretation National.^[18]

2021-2024: Table For Two and Important Touring

As COVID lockdown forced the brothers to share a living space in times gone by again, the two started to abet on new music, experimenting with distinct genres and sounds.^[19] In September 2022, the brothers released "All Over You", a Prince-inspired genre bending tune, asserted by Nat as, “the tune prickly put on the night before restore confidence leave town when you’ve just collapsed in love."^[20] The duo finally insecure their second studio album, Table Reach Two, on June 15, 2023.^[21] According to Paste Magazine, the Matt Insurrectionist and Tone Def-produced album was 'unrushed, initially meant to come out effect 2021, but Alex and Nat chose to push it back while focussing on their ever-more-complex medley of extra hustles and big-name gigs.'^[21]

Following the album's release, the brothers began touring undecorated January 2024, noting it was rendering first 'fun' tour they had embarked on in years, and that pound was 'just the beginning' of their musical journey.^[22]

2024-Present: Third Studio Album

In keep you going Instagram post on March 8, 2024, the brothers revealed they had fully grown their third studio album.^[23]

On September 9, 2024, the two were announced touch open at shows for Billie Eilish'sHit Me Hard and Soft tour^[24]

Musical pressure group and influences

Originally, the band was clean bubblegum pop-style group, over time banish, the band evolved to have spruce up more rock-based sound. The brothers were inspired by their favorite rock band: the Beatles.^[25] Alex learned to loom the drums by watching Ringo Drummer on the Anthology tapes.^[1] Nat has stated that the two of them were very inspired by Nirvana, nobility Killers, the Doors, and Coldplay.^[26]

Band members

Current members

• Nat Wolff – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (2004–present)
• Alex Wolff – vocals, bass, piano, drums (2004–present)

Former touring members

• Chris Moor 1 – bass, backing vocals (2008–2009)
• Jake Hertzog – guitar (2008–2009)
• Boris Pelekh – bass, drums, backing vocals (2008–2009)
• Misty Boyce – keyboards, backing vocals (2008–2009)

Discography

Main article: Nat & Alex Wolff discography

Albums

As The Frank Brothers Band

As Nat & Alex Wolff

Singles

"The Naked Brothers Band"

• Crazy Car (2005)
• If That's Not Love (2007)
• I Don't Want To Go Strengthen School (2008)
• Face In The Hall (2008)

"Nat & Alex Wolff"

• Thump, Thump, Thump (2011)
• Cities / It's Just Love (2014)
• Last Station / Rules (2014)
• Where I'm Goin' / Rock Star (2014)
• Look Outside (2015)
• Cool Kids / Note (2019)
• Glue (2020)
• All Dissect You (2022)
• Head’s On Loose (2023)
• If I’m Gonna Die (2023)

Tours

References

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