Top 5 Bands that include brothers, then a few omissions, then the rest of the list:
1. Bedhead
2. The Arcade Fire (but they got like 20 people in the band, so of course two of them would be brothers. Duh!)
3-5. All the other bands the Kadane Brothers have been in.
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29. Chevelle (is it corporate rock? perhaps. but Steve Albini produced their first album. look for my upcoming series "People Who I Will Never Be As Cool As!" Part 1 will be dedicated to Steve Albini)
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1000. Hanson
1001. The Jonas Brothers
There it is, the complete list, with only minor omissions!
Listen to "Wind Down": The Last song from What Fun Life Was, by the incomparable Bedhead.
Here's "The Unpredictable Landlord" from the same album. If you're not tapping your toes you have no soul!
For the uninitiated, this type of music has been referred to as a number of things: slowcore, shoegaze, emo, lo-fi, bedroom pop, I'm sure there's others. Those labels are reductive, unnecessary, and usually wrong. Particularly egregious is the "emo" label, which like "alternative," just refers to large and disparate body of music most people are too ignorant about to classify correctly. So, as opposed to labels, allow me to quickly evangelize some good bands that also happen to sound like Bedhead, at least a bit (individual posts coming for most of these bands eventually):
1. Low (cross reference: Steve Albini)
2. Pedro the Lion / David Bazan (same thing)
3. American Analog Set
Like the boys from Explosions in the Sky (fellow Texans), the Kadane Brothers have also scored a film or two (well only one that I know of). They supplied instrumental music for Hell House, a nifty little documentary about the spiritual-themed "haunted house alternatives" put up by evangelical churches to evangelize and scare the pants off of (or on to, given their focus on abstinence) kids around Halloween time. It's great for a double feature with Jesus Camp! And yes, I have an opinion on Jesus Camp. But I'm keeping it to myself for now.
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