Tom Hamilton: Guitar, Laptop, vocals;
Tom McKee: Keyboards, vocals;
Clay Parnell: Bass, vocals;
Ilya Stemkovsky: Drums
Sounds Like
"Sensitive, scorned, and whimsically serious, BROTHERS PAST is a glimpse into the future of pop music. The Philadelphia quartet rests on a bedrock of solid songwriting, progressive musical sensibilities and incredible drumming... "Words Like Weapons" is a great fucking song with its snappy blips, hot-knife lyrics and scooting breakbeat. In "Leave the Light On" Tom Hamilton's whining lament opposes quick snare snaps and dreamy synths. "Everything Must Go" closes the album with a down-the-nose farewell to the album's lost love. BROTHERS PAST offers a smooth and believable blend of electronica, rock and pop just original enough to place This Feeling at the top of the growing pile of genre-bending releases. -- MORGAN WELLS, URB MAGAZINE
"Philadelphia-based electro-rock band Brothers Past ain’t your typical rock band at all. The quartet works off an energetic sound rich with heavy guitar riffs, spazz-out drum beats, and bleepy digital audio manipulations. It’s ambitious, high-minded, conceptual stuff aiming for the same heights at which Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, and Radiohead set their sights." -- BY: T. BALLARD LESEMANN, The Charleston City Paper
Since early 2000, Philadelphia's BROTHERS PAST have managed to stand out from the crowd by merging bits of electronic exploration with indie-rock flavored anthems. The band's sound is new and energetic, big yet introspective, a merger of rock anthems and electronic exploration. Their 2005 release, This Feeling's Called Goodbye, on Sci-Fidelity Records, saw the the band receive national praise, from critics, bloggers, hippies, hipsters, and regular joes just like you! Many festival appearance followed, including a slot at Bonnaroo in June 2006. Band members are currently working on material for a new record, and dabbling in various side projects, like Tom Hamilton's American Babies and Biodiesel.
It was such a wonderful pleasure to see you guys display your creative genius as you jammed with Mr. Russo and The Join at Mexical Blues. Watching how you all made it work was such an inspiration and so interesting. The music, of course was amazing. Thank you and blessings...I am so grateful to have witnessed such an event.
Good evening from icy Boone, NC. Hope all's well with you gents. Would you please let Greg know that this evening I went one round fisticuffs with his old pal Mexican Sleighride (backseat?) in front of the Boone Saloon. Adios Mio! He grabbed my guy friends crotch...then I whooped him good and proper. Still need a bodyguard?
yo man, great time at highline. i hope i can make it up and see biodeisel play. btw, i went to westgate to get that cheesesteak, it was AWESOME. thanks. see ya around
November 16th needs to be tomorrow! Can't wait to dance it up in Baltimore...and there won't be any kicking me out this time...I will be staying off the tables!
Where the Brothers at??? Lacking in tour, that doesnt sound like my boys. When r we gunna c some more dates is what me and the rest of us are wondering.
p.s. got some real classy top friends there dont ya now? Really classy girls right?
You guys really need to clean up your commnents. They're full of spam from people who don't know how to use Myspace (much like whoever clicked to pr0n link from your account a little while back hehe)
