BROTHER/GHOST

State of the band

2011-01-05T17:30:00.002-06:00

So as you may or may not know by now, we'll be parting ways with Jasper on January 14th after our San Antonio show at the 1011 with Twin Killers, the Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and more. I'm going to pull the typical "sorry, not tellin'" band comment here, but know that we're all very much friends, and we all love Jasper very much.

We'll also be playing one final show here in Austin with Jasper the day before on January 13th. This show will also be with Twin Killers as well as Zlam Dunk. If you live in either of these cities, please come out and make them both the ragers that they should be.

The full length is still very much being written, and hopefully soon, we'll be heading into some sort of recording enviornment to bang it out. Also, as of this moment, our 10 day March tour is still a go. We'll keep everyone in the know with what's going on, but keep in touch with us on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog. We'll see everyone soon!

Thank you, Jasper. We all love you very much and will miss you.

-Colby and B/G

2010-12-09T13:45:00.001-06:00

YouTube Video

2010-12-09T13:27:00.002-06:00

Don't worry guys! We've been locked away in our little jam cave doing god knows what in addition to shaking the dirt off of some new songs. A BUNCH of new songs. You could even say we're working on a full length. Up until now the mission statement at team bg has been to "make the smiths sound like smash mouth".

With that, in march we're doing a 10 day tour of the Midwest. So stay tuned and maybe we'll play fr that ass. In time for tour we'll be selling tour only cd-r demos of a few songs from the upcoming record.

In January we'll be doing some Texas shows with our good friends TWIN KILLERS.

NEWS NEWS NEWS

2010-09-14T16:04:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone. Lots of news to discuss! Firstly, we want to thank our good friend Andrew Stevens for playing drums for us for the past few months. Andrew played during the last three shows and also helped us demo some material that will appear on our upcoming full length. Check out his band Battle Bend at battlebend.bandcamp.com. We're also very excited to announce that our original drummer, Austin Matherne has rejoined the band after moving back from Baton Rouge. We're currently working with him to write our debut full length, and we're very anxious to finish it and start recording. In the mean time, we'll be playing two shows in the next couple of months here in town. This Saturday the 18th, we're opening up an AWESOME show at the Parish with San Francisco's Sleepy Sun and Dallas' True Widow. Doors are at 8:30, and all info can be found here: http://www.theparishaustin.com/show/detail/30411. In October we'll be opening up for Brooklyn's Ghastly City Sleep at the Mohawk. Our friends Cory Brim and For Hours and Ours will also be playing. And finally, in November, we'll be heading back to Louisiana for a couple of shows with our best pals in Twin Killers . Stay tuned for more info on these shows and more news coming soon. We're stoked to see everyone!

-Colby and Brother/Ghost

APRIL LOUISIANA TRIP PART 1

2010-04-29T05:57:00.005-05:00

We got back very recently from a stress-fest of a trip to Louisiana. 2 shows were played (New Orleans and Baton Rouge) and days (and nights) were spent recording a song for our upcoming split with Magdalene. here are some videos of the better parts of the trip. picture update is coming as well. -jasper

Tour Cancellation plus some good news

2010-03-21T12:53:00.003-05:00

Hi y'all,

So as everyone may know by now, we're having to cancel the tour due to some things accumulating in our personal lives. These things have made it impossible for us to tour next month, and we are all super bummed about it. We've put a lot of hard work into making this happen for us, but of course we could not have come even remotely close if it were not for the kindess and generosity of old friends, new friends, and some complete strangers. Thanks to anyone who was willing to book a show for us next month. It means the world to us. This note does not come bearing only bad news, though. We will still be hopping over to South Louisiana for a week or so to work on some new songs for an upcoming split release and a new full length record to hopefully be released next fall. During the trip we'll be playing in New Orleans with Caddywhompus for the CD release show, and playing a house show in Baton Rogue with Thou and Twin Killers; the new project from Andrew Martin, formerly of People of Peru and Landmines, Baby! We'll also be opening up for the mighty mighty Caspian and Arms and Sleepers on their US tour when they come to Austin to play at the Mohawk on April 5th. Also, we'll hopefully be getting a short Southern tour in order very soon. Stay posted our Facebook, twitter, and myspace accounts for news. Hopefully we'll be seeing everyone very soon. Thanks. We love you all!

-Colby and Brother/Ghost

2010-01-17T23:48:00.002-06:00

BROTHER/GHOST covers "My Girls" by a band called Animal Collective.
ENJOY.

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Click his crotch to play.

gold fucking brick.

2010-01-12T16:20:00.003-06:00

Sickening news on such a beautiful day.
$.$ will make my death bed.

2010-01-06T13:11:00.001-06:00

New xiu xiu studio video. Cant wait for the new album. -sterling

T O N A L P U N I S H M E N T

2010-01-06T01:21:00.002-06:00

Welcome to the band Colbys new SVT killer...
SUNN(O))))) 300T

T O N A L P U N I S H M E N T

2010-01-05T01:26:00.002-06:00

WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBER HIS NAME IS NOT JASPER.

2009-12-26T15:25:00.000-06:00

OUR EPISODE OF NUMBER ONE JAMS IS UP

NUMBER ONE JAMS: Brother/Ghost

NUMBERONEJAMS.TUMBLR.COM
MUTUALLYMADE.ORG

R.I.P. Vic Chesnutt

2009-12-26T15:17:00.005-06:00

We saw his last show and we will never forget it.

2009-12-19T01:24:00.000-06:00

NUMBER ONE JAMS!

2009-12-17T01:05:00.005-06:00

THEE BROTHER GHOST NUMBER ONE JAMS WILL BE UP ON CHRISTMAS DAY! Thanks patrick!!!!!
Here is a sneak peek.

2009-12-06T15:21:00.000-06:00

Last night Jasper and I (sterling) attended The Vic Chesnutt Band's performance at the Central Presbyterian Church. The band consisted of Guy Picciotto of Fugazi as well as members of A Silver Mt. Zion and of course Vic himself.
Liz Durrett from Athens, Georgia warmed up the audience with her hauntingly beautiful voice and grungy acoustic guitar.
Then Vic and the gang took the stage. Vic said something along the lines of "We're gonna knock your dick in the dirt with our rock and roll!" he also threw a few "motherfuckers" out there. So after the band gets warmed up and they get rolling with some brutally intense piece featuring Guys screaming guitar and Vics alarmingly passionate vocals, jesus decided that he didnt like the Vic Chesnutt Band and turned off the power.
After the power started up again the rest of the night was absoutely beautiful, awkward, painful, hilarious, and overall the most involving and intimate show Ive ever been to. It was incredible to say the least and I will never forget it.

LOUISIANA

2009-11-06T01:08:00.001-06:00

This might be rather late, but better late than never. A post about our trip to Louisiana, which lasted 4 days. The itinerary was to play in Houma, hang out in New Orleans, play in Baton Rouge, play in Lafayette and drive back the 4th day. To preface the goings on of this trip, our van broke down outside of a CVS on the day before we were set to leave, right after getting an oil change. i guess that's what we get for getting a van with 400,000 miles on it. After spending 6 hours in the parking lot, an angel in disguise, mobile-mechanic "Paul", put us back on schedule and fixed the van.
After 4 hours of sleep, we left the next morning, heading towards Houma, but not before stopping in Giddings, TX for the most ridiculous breakfast burritos imaginable. At that time we realized Sterling was out of the loop, for he was the only band-member without a mustache; so we bought him one. We soon realized the IPod adapter we had wasn't too great, and the only tape we had was "Master of Puppets". Needless to say, most hours of the drive were spent with that tape on repeat.

Many new inside jokes later, we arrived in Houma. before this Sterling and Brandon had never been to the bayou, so we promptly searched out some cajun fixins. Po-boys were had, Abitas were drank and we had done our duty to the town. The show in Houma was at a Mexican restaurant, "Pinata's". Pax Romana and Passwords reunited to play the show and Deep Blue Sea and TaTa Destroyers also played. It was packed and many tequila shots were offered by busty employees with tequila shot trays.
After the show, which ended at around 3, we drove the 1 1/2 hours to Mandeville, going over the causeway(the longest bridge in the world.) Due to the time and tiredness of this, the bridge seemed an awful lot like rainbow road.
The next day we explored New Orleans, me being a tourist there for the first time having lived 20 minutes away for a large portion of my life.

After this we hauled to Baton Rouge, but not before we noticed the power steerning fluid was leaking. The show in Baton Rouge was at Brock's house, and it started about 3 hours late. Living Room played as well, and they were great. Abitas were had once again, old friends were seen and we crashed a party and then crashed at Paul's, who had one of the nicest and cleanest apartments i've ever seen.
The next day consisted of eating and watching the Saints game at the Chimes, being stuck at guitar center for 5 hours and playing in lafayette. lafayette was interesting, to say the least. It was a sunday night, so the town was quiet. The opening band, Honey Pillow, was hilariously entertaining and the Chauvinistas were great too! Afterwards we partied at Alex's house, after procuring bottles of vodka from the bar we had just played at and the arrival of some strange men who showed up in a short school bus.

The last day was spent going to the Creole lunch house, home of some of the nicest ladies you will EVER meet and driving home, going crazy. Videos will be uploaded soon.

-jasper

2009-11-06T01:02:00.000-06:00

boing boing

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2009-10-23T02:58:00.000-05:00

2009-08-24T15:51:00.000-05:00

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2009-03-31T14:23:00.000-05:00