Brown Brothers Recordings

One of our best New Year’s ever was seeing Wilco and Flaming Lips perform at Madison Square Garden.  We hope all of you have as good a night as that one was for us.

Steven Benjamin Mandel, who grew up in Bardonia, New York listening to Elvis Costello, is today’s Brown Brothers hero.  But, he is much more than that.  He is the architect behind our sound, having recorded and de facto produced our first two albums.  As if that weren’t enough he is one of the best friends we are lucky enough to have had for the last 25-30 years.

As for his non-Brown Brothers work, we highly recommend Wise Up Ghost.  Work with your idols? Absolutely. Tirelessly help your friends? Check. Do it all with the utmost generosity and humor? You bet.  No one is without flaw but this guy is pretty close.

This is Michael Anderson.  He has done the visual art for our first two releases. He mainly uses old street posters or handbills and combines them to make beautiful collages.  Please seek him out online under his alias chumaconegro.

The Hollywood Bowl was the site of a Brown Brothers field trip last summer to see wonderful performances by Sufjan Stevens and Kurt Vile.  It is also one of the best acoustically designed venues of its size-indoor or outdoor. It’s also beautiful. Finally, it may be the subject of some big news soon. Stay tuned.

This is a photo of 242 east third street in Manhattan, NYC.  It was the site of Slug’s Saloon, which holds an important place in one of the Brown Brothers’ jazz and history loving heart for the significant role it played in the lives of Sun Ra and Lee Morgan.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug’s_Saloon

if you’re the kind of person who savors your cuppa joe get ye to southside coffee in sunset park Brooklyn Nyc USA earth.  This place will light you up

This company’s predecessor was named Pointillist Media after the painting style popularized by dead Frenchman Georges Seurat. True story.

Ya like bourbon? Then this is your holy grail.  From Wolfe and Bernard Bernheim’s original to today, the folks who passed for I.w. Harper have been churning it out as well as anyone. Sip it with joy this holiday season.