BAND OF BROTHERS.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 29-JAN-07

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Nat and Alex Wolff, the brothers in the Naked Brothers Band, have been working together for five years, since the evening they got out of the bathtub and began singing and jumping around. Eventually, they got dressed, picked up instruments, and, along with a few friends, started playing neighborhood gigs. Nat, who is twelve and is known as "the girl magnet," is the singer, songwriter, and piano man; Alex, nine, plays drums. Their big single, which Nat wrote when he was six, is called "Crazy Car." As a nine-year-old female fan remarked the other day, "I like it because it's about a love that leads you nowhere."

Nat and Alex live with their parents, the jazz pianist Michael Wolff and the actress Polly Draper, on...

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