Nat & Alex Wolff or The Naked Brothers Band are a pop/rock band. The band was created by two real life brothers Nat and Alex Wolff. It was originally a self-titled mockumentary film that the brothers' mom actress Polly Draper put together that eventually developed into a television series on Nickelodeon. The Brothers became recording artists in February 2009 and Embarked on a Summer Road Trip Tour that Summer. The brothers are currently awaiting the release of their Third Studio Album, set for release Late 2009.

History
(1999-2004) Early Years

When Nat was in preschool, he formed a band called The Silver Boulders with his best friends, including David, Thomas, Josh, Ann Curry's son Walker, and Julianne Moore's son Caleb "Cal" Freundlich. The band's name was taken from The Beatles' original name, The "Silver" Beatles and The Rolling Stones, as "boulder" is almost synonymous with "stones." Nat wrote his first song, titled "Mama Don't Let Me Cry", at the age of five. At the time, Alex was not allowed to be in the band, because Nat thought it would be unfashionable to have a brother in the same ensemble. When Nat, who lives in Lower Manhattan of New York City, was 4 years old, his father, jazz pianist-composer Michael Wolff (who was the bandleader and musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show) used to play Nat different music (mostly jazz) and when Nat heard some of The Beatles' music, he became inspired by them and watched all The Beatles' movies including Help!. Alex learned how to play the saxophone at the age of two and a half.

When Nat and Alex were toddlers, they jumped out of the bathtub shouting, "We're the naked brothers band!" While Nat was in pre-school he formed a band called The Silver Boulders with his best friends David Levi, Thomas Batuello, Joshua "Josh" Kaye, Ann Curry's son Walker, Julianne Moore's son Caleb "Cal" Freundlich, and many more. The band's name was taken from The Beatles' original band The "Silver" Beatles and The Rolling Stones, since a "boulder" is a synonym of the word "stones".[citation needed] Nat was so inspired by The Beatles that at the age of five he wrote his first song, which was called "Mama Don't Let Me Cry." At the time, Alex wasn't allowed to be in the band, because Nat thought it would be corny to have a brother in his band.

After 9/11 terrorist attacks when Nat was 6-years-old and Alex was 3-years-old, Nat wrote a song called "Firefighters" for a benefit concert he performed with his band at the back of his apartment. Alex wanted to perform too, so Nat made Alex a fake plastic saxophone for him to perform. According to an interview by Jacques Steinberg at New York Times Center Stage in January 2008, the boys' mother actress-writer Polly Draper (who starred as Ellyn Warren on ABC's thirtysomething) recalled, "...And anyway when it was Alex' solo he would hold up the fake plastic saxophone Nat made for him and say, 'Mommy, I have the hiccups and I have to go potty' [laughs]." The benefit concert ended up raising over $45,000 and donated it all to the children of the firefighters who died during 9/11. After the band's charity concert, the band ended up performing all over different Christmas parties and wedding ceremonies.

Eventually, Alex got inspired by Ringo Starr from The Beatles and decided to take up the drums instead. When Alex got so good at the drums (by watching tapes in his house of Ringo playing the drums), Nat changed his mind and let him be in his band. At the age of 6, Nat composed a melody that didn't have any lyrics to it, but when he wanted to write a song that sounded like one by The Beach Boys, and since The Beach Boys wrote a lot of songs about cars; Nat wrote a song called "Crazy Car" After a while, The Silver Boulders broke up; it led to Nat, Alex, Thomas, David, and Josh to change the band's name back to its original name, the Naked Brothers Band.

In 2003, Nat had a minor appearance in his mother's (Polly Draper) playwright Getting Into Heaven, in 2003 at the Flea Theater. Nat also performed off-Broadway in The Heart of Baghdad. After a while, Nat begged his mom to be a child actor by putting signs on his door that said: "I Want to Be A Child Star, Mom!" At first, she refused to explaining that it would be to difficult, so she made a compromise with Nat; in 2003, she let him film his own sitcom titled "Don't Eat Off My Plate."
 

(2004-2008) The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, Mockumentary Series & Debut Album

After that, Nat begged his dad to record a tape in the studio with Alex and him, so Mr. Wolff arranged a recording session for the three of them in the studio. While Ms. Draper saw them recording in the studio, she came up with the idea to make a "mock documentary" about the band as if they were huge like The Beatles. During the summer of 2004, the film took production at the family's real-life apartment and all around New York City, which at the time Nat was 9 and Alex was 6-and-a-half. Ms. Draper wrote and directed The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, which was designed as an independent family project with a low-budget under $1,000,000. The film consisted of celebrities who were friends with Draper and Wolff, those were Cyndi Lauper, Julianne Moore, Ann Curry, Uma Thurman, Tony Shalhoub, Ricki Lake, Arsenio Hall, and the complete cast of Thirtysomething. The film also included Ms. Draper's niece Jesse Draper, her brother Tim Draper, and her nephews William "Billy" T. Draper, Adam Draper, and Coulter Mulligan. Michael Wolff produced the music with his longtime friend music composer Michael A. Levine; Polly Draper, Michael Wolff, and Tim Draper all served as executive producer for the film; and Nat Wolff wrote and performed all the songs, except for "That's How It is," which was written and performed by Alex Wolff.

In 2005, Ms. Draper entered the film at the October 23, 2005, Hamptons International Film Festival where it won the audience award for family feature film. Meanwhile Nickelodeon executive and the founder of Spike TV, Albie Hecht was in the audience that day. He ended up bringing the film to Nickelodeon—begging them to do a television series based on it. Tom Asheim, the vice president and general manager of Nickelodeon 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 children and they loved it."

Eventually, Nickelodeon persuaded Ms. Draper to put together a television series. Draper recalled, "...When Nickelodeon first asked us about doing a series, we said, 'How about a cartoon, so the kids could stay normal?' They said, 'No, we love your kids.'" In the summer through the early fall of 2006, the first season of the self-titled series took production. In January 27, 2007, The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie aired on Nickelodeon and the self-titled series aired February 3. Polly Draper is the creator, head writer, executive producer, and frequent director of the series, while Albie Hecht is the executive producer and his production company Worldwide Biggies distributes the series. Kidz House Entertainment also distributes the series. It's located at Stage 1, which is a division of Broadway Stages in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where the show is filmed. The series that is now in its third season brought Nickelodeon's highest-rated premiere in seven years.

Nat and Alex never really realized how big they were until October 8, 2007. Band members—Nat, Alex, Thomas, David, Allie DiMeco (who stars as "Rosalina" and Nat's crush on the film and TV series), Qaasim Middleton (who replaces former band-member Josh on the series) had an autograph signing at Times Square Virgin Megastore for the band's release of their self-titled debut album The Naked Brothers Band. There were 1,500 fans that waited outside of Virgin Megastore for hours, some camped out over night.[1][2] In addition, they also had a live performance on ABC's Good Morning America with the band's song "I'm Out." Their Second studio album, I Don't Want To Go To School was released a half-year later. Now nat and alex wolff are going on tour and they will soon become recording artists.
 

(2008-2009) I Don't Want to Go to School & Fully Clothed Tour

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In 2008, the Second Season of the band's Television Series began airing, starting on January 26 in The Sidekicks and ended on June 6 in Polar Bears.

On April 15, 2008, the band released their Second Studio Album I Don't Want to Go to School. The album included all of the music from the second season of the band's Television Series.

In Summer 2008, the band returned to the Studio to begin recording music for the Third Season of their Television Series (the songs were ment to be released on the band's third album, although the album is currently an Unfinshed Project). The Third Season began filming on July 27th and then premiered on October 18 in the television movie Mystery Girl, the Series concluded the following year.

The band then started their first national-tour around the country called Nat and Alex Wolff: Fully Clothed and on Tour, which started on November 1st and ended on December 14, 2008. Nat and Alex, along with professionally trained musicians that includes Jacob Hertzog (Music Director/Guitar/Backup Vocals), Misty Boyce (Keyboards/Backup Vocals), Chris Muir (Bass/Backup Vocals), and Boris Pelekh (Guitar/Drums/Backup Vocals) performed songs from and even some from the upcoming episodes.[citation needed] Nat and Alex Wolff: Fully Clothed and On Tour performed all around the United States from November 1st to December 14, 2008. Some concerts they performed at include the Capitol One Theater in New York, the Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, the Berkeley Performance Center in Boston, The Roxy in Los Angeles, and the House of Blues in Chicago, New Orleans, Florida and California.
 

(2009-Present) Summer Road Trip Tour & Third Studio Album

After beginning on October 18, 2008, the Third and Final Season of The Naked Brothers Band (TV Series) ended on June 13, 2009, in the Television Special No School's Fools Day. The reason the show ended was because the brothers revealed that they chose to do a Tour instead of Filming a Fourth Season.

The band then left on their Summer Tour as Nat & Alex Wolff, with band members Jake Hertzog, Chris Muir, Boris Pelekh & Misty Boyce (these members also appeared on the band's Fully Clothed Tour). The Tour began in June and wrapped up in August.

During the Tour, the band revealed that they started working on their Third Studio Album, the album was to include songs from the unfinished album that was recorded in Summer 2008 (the songs were all performed in the third season of The Naked Brothers Band (TV Series)), plus new matieral was also written and recorded in the Summer of 2009. The band released the album's first single Face In the Hall back in October 2008. Two other Tracks were released on the band's Official Myspace Page (A Cover of the Bruce Springstein song Dancing In The Dark and a cover of The Beatles song A Hard Day's Night.