MUSIC

Bands

branjoe

2023 - 2024

"Hi I'm Brandon, that's Joey, we're branjoe, and this is my banjo."

Joey and I started writing bluegrass and folk songs during the summer of 2023 and by the fall we had written five original songs that told stories of heartbreak, traveling, elusive wizards, and more. Along the way we found arrangements with guitar, banjo, harmonica, ukulele, cajon, and our rugged harmonies. Ask us to play our hit single, Gilmore.

Update: Joey's in medical school now, but branjoe persists in our hearts.

MVVN

2022 - 2023

Ya like disco? My good friends from the deCasa days started their own project called MVVN (pronounced Moon). We started playing in January 2022 and played a slew of shows around Texas including Austin, Denton, Laredo, and more! The music is a blast to play: high energy wall to wall dancing fun!

Update: Though I'm no longer playing with them, they're still playing shows and releasing music. Links Below!

Animal Teeth

2021

Rock and Roll, man! Cover band of classic hard rock bands like ACDC, Guns N' Roses, and Motley Crue. I only got to play with them for my last semester of grad school, and I'm still not tired of playing Sweet Child O' Mine.

deCasa

2018-2019

Drumming for Luis (deCasa) was a wild ride of a grind for the love of music. It was the first band I was in that played original music, and I loved learning how to put on a show, whether it be in a living room or at venues like Hole in the Wall or The Mohawk. Unfortunately, I had to drop out to focus on my senior year of college, as we started getting too many gigs!

Update: After this project was put on the backburner for a few years, Luis is back to releasing new music and playing shows around Texas. Links Below!

Pants Not Trousers

2018 - 2022

Johnny, Evan, and Brandon came together in the summer of 2018 with the goal of playing a full length concert as an actual band, each for the first time as musicians. After great success at this debut, the band mysteriously disappeared for almost three years, until in 2021 they reunited for a secret house show playing both a mix of covers and unreleased originals. Still finding their sound, they hope to expand their selection of originals and refine their chemistry as a group to put on kickass performances for years to come.

Update: Sometimes great things must come to an end, but we get to keep amazing memories.

Playlists

Collaborative Series

Let's share some music! Don't be shy, click the playlist to add songs on spotify!

Funk Together

January 2022

add some funky tunes. deep cuts encouraged, one song per artist. get out there, get silly, get strange, get stank face.

Good Game Series

In high school all I really did was go to school, go to swim practice, and play a whole lot of minecraft and league of legends. In elite gamer fashion, I purchased myself a button that when pressed, plays a recording of a guy yelling "GG!!!" so I could smack it at the end of every game of league. Most of high school my mom worked out some carpools with other swim parents to get us to swim practice. When my mom ended up driving, I always liked to play music for those 20 minutes, playing songs across as many genres as I enjoyed that I thought no one else would know and were still great tunes, some hidden gems, the deep cuts (at least to me at the time). Well after a while I decided I would combine all of the songs I had been playing during those car rides into a playlist, and from there the GG series was born. I continued it through my undergrad in college where it turned into a sort of "Best of Brandon's Last 6 Months of Music Listening" playlist. Going back through all of these, they not only still hold up, but serve as a cool little archive of my music taste over time.

GG1

Good Game 1

July 2015

This is where it all started. Shout out to Jacob Stubbs and Ashlyn Carrol.

GG2

Good Game 2

October 2015

What do we have here, but another eclectic assortment of quality tunes.

GG3

Good Game 3

October 2015

Third time's the charm.

GG4

Good Game 4

July 2016

They said it couldn't be done. They thought it was over. Finished. Dead. And for a time, they were right...

GG5

Good Game 5

Oct 2016

Give into the music...

GG6

Good Game 6

April 2017

The next installation of the award winning Good Game playlist series. For your listening pleasure.

GG7

Good Game 7

January 2018

The music plays, and it sounds like heaven. Welcome, everyone, to Good Game 7.

GG8

Good Game 8

May 2018

You've lost weight, you feel great, and you're about to go on a date. It's getting late, and as you wait, you listen to Good Game 8.

GG9

Good Game 9

September 2018

Come on in, come on in! Make yourself at home, get comfortable! Don't be shy now, have a seat. We're glad you're here.

Good Game 10

September 2019

Let go of expectation, and experience the music. You might be surprised where you end up.

Solo Projects

Should I release the goods?

Drumming

Aaron Parks Quartet - Live at Monk's

Ben Pham - It Runs Through Me - Drum Cover