Random Facts

Their third album is to be released on August 12th, 2008.

A Disney Digital 3D production crew will be filming their entire Burning Up Tour which will be a theatrical release in late January or early February 2009.

The Jonas Brothers have made three appearances so far on The Early Show. They've made one in 2004, 2006 and 2008.

The song "Australia" was inspired by The Veronica's. They wrote it after they went on tour with them.

They won Best Music Group at the 2008 Kids Choice Awards.

The name of their tour bus is Bertha.

The brothers give 10% of their income to churches and Nick's charity, Change for the Children Foundation, which is a charity for kids with diabetes.

All of them agree that the girls they date should be smart, independent, have a good sense of humor, be spiritual, and understand their crazy schedules.

Their first song came from Nick's journal.

Tom Higgenson for the Plain White T's collaborated with the Jonas Brothers for their CD, Jonas Brothers. The song did not make it on the CD though.

Before being homeschooled, all three Jonas brothers used to attend Eastern Christian High School.

The Jonas Brothers performed at the 2007 Miss Teen USA Pageant.

At a photoshoot, Kevin brought a tape measure to prove that he is taller than Joe. Turns out, they're both the same height.

They all like wearing skinny jeans.

According to Joe, they wrote a lot of personal lyrics for their second album. It's about heartbreak and joy.

The Jonas Brothers did a Summer 2007 tour with Corbin Bleu, Drake Bell, and Jordan Pruitt.

Each member knows how to play guitar.

Even though they are brothers, each member was born in a different state. Nick was born in Texas, Joe was born in Arizona, and Kevin was born in New Jersey.

As of January 2008, the band has had seven music videos featured on Disney Channel,"Poor Unfortunate Souls" "Year 3000","Kids of the Future" ,"Hold On", "I Wan'na Be Like You", "SOS", and "When Look Me In the Eyes."

They all wear purity rings.

 

 

Ask the Jonas Brothers who they're hoping to turn into fans with their new self-titled CD and they won't say "everybody." But that's precisely what they'll mean. "We're aiming for people our age," says 17-year-old Joe. "But we also wanna get kids younger than us," adds 14-year-old Nick. "And older people, too," 19-year-old Kevin pipes up.

The highly anticipated follow-up to the New Jersey siblings' 2006 debut -- which featured the TRL hit "Mandy" -- The Jonas Brothers is sure to make good on the band's goal: It's a high-energy pop-punk disc overflowing with insanely catchy hooks, muscular guitar fuzz and mature songwriting that reveals just how much growing up the boys have done since we last heard from them.

Talk about something for everyone: In "S.O.S." they attack a fierce dance-rock groove, while in "Hello Beautiful" they go soulful and acoustic. "Games" rides a laidback reggae groove the Police would envy, then switches gears into a zippy Ramones-style rave-up. ?Hollywood"pairs a tricky funk beat with divebombing guitar lines, and "When You Look Me in the Eyes" builds to a power-ballad crescendo. In "Goodnight and Goodbye," the album's most ambitious cut, they combine Warped Tour-style punk with musical-theatre trimmings inspired by Nick's years on Broadway in Les Miserables and Beauty and the Beast. Throughout the album, the boys reflect on a variety of emotional hardships without losing their grip on the positive vibe that underpins all their music.

Remarkably eclectic yet bound together by the brothers' trademark harmony vocals, the CD is the natural result of the wild times the Jonases have experienced lately. After spending much of 2006 supporting their debut on the road with tween-scene heavyweights such as Jesse McCartney, the Veronicas and Aly & AJ, the brothers found themselves reaching a new audience earlier this year when the Disney Channel put the band's "Year 3000" video into heavy rotation. "As soon as that happened, the song entered the Top 10 on iTunes and our MySpace comments doubled," Kevin marvels. "It was almost impossible to keep up with the new friend requests!"

It didn't get any easier: The band's profile continued to rise over the next few months thanks to appearances on Radio Disney and the Meet the Robinsons soundtrack, where the Jonases remade Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" as "Kids of the Future."

Eager to provide their quickly expanding fanbase with new music, the band entered L.A.'s Seedy Underbelly studio in February with producer John Fields, whose work on Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown had made the boys huge fans of his. "John lives rock music," Joe says of the producer, who's also worked with Rooney and Pink. "We always thought it would be so cool to work with him."

They worked quickly, recording the album from beginning to end in a mere 21 days, a feat they accomplished in part because they knew the material so well: Where their debut featured work by a handful of professional songwriters, The Jonas Brothers only contains songs penned by the Jonas Brothers themselves, with occasional assists by pals like Bleu ("That's Just the Way We Roll"), P.J. Bianco ("When You Look Me in the Eyes") and the boys' own backing band ("Games"). "As brothers, we just know how to work together," Nick explains.

"When we signed to Hollywood," Kevin remembers, "we told the label, 'Hey, we have some demos of songs we've been writing for the past year and a half.' We thought it'd be so funny to just record those songs for the album to see what we could get away with. But those turned out to be the songs on the record!"

The brothers say their writing reveals a lifetime of influence -- everything from My Chemical Romance to the Backstreet Boys to Weird Al Yankovic (with whom the band recently shared the stage at New Jersey's Bamboozle festival). Still, what you really hear on The Jonas Brothers is the sound of three young musicians finding their own voice -- their own distinctive blend of Nick's way with an R&B vocal, Joe's love of danceable beats and Kevin's obsession with guitar solos.

"This album is so us," says Joe. "The first one was us kind of coming into what the Jonas Brothers could be," Kevin adds. "Whereas this one really shows off where we're at right now." The youngest Jonas but perhaps the wisest, Nick concludes thus: "We love what we're doing and we want to do it for a while."