The Wolfe Brothers have released their brand-new single “No Brakes” and announce global recording deal with BMG. “No Brakes” is the most conceptually and musically bold song The Wolfe Brothers have ever put to tape. Tom speaks to 3KND about BMG contract and what it means to the band. A joyful fusion of country, rock, and pop, “No Brakes”, like Country Heart, is a portrait of where the brothers are at this point in time — only this time, it shows them going full speed ahead, pushing forward with no cares in the world. “We’re drawing from pub rock, from old country, from new country,” Nick explains. “Maybe it’s a bit confusing, but we do what we do and write what we love.”
A song about going full steam ahead in a relationship, “No Brakes” works as an accurate metaphor for where The Wolfe Brothers are in their career. “This represents the last few years of our journey,” Tom says. It also represents where he and his brother want to go. “It’s been quite a long time since there’s been an Australian country act who’s been a huge, huge crossover,” adds Nick, signaling, in part, where he and Tom’s ambitions lie.
“No Brakes” is the first single released via The Wolfe Brothers new label home; BMG. The exclusive global recording deal with BMG means The Wolfe Brothers now have a global label partnership to further build their career internationally.
In the USA, The Wolfe Brothers join the BMG owned BBR Music Group (BBR was acquired by BMG in 2017) who will represent the band’s releases stateside. They join the star-studded roster on the powerhouse Nashville label, home to the likes of Chase Rice, Granger Smith, Jimmie Allen, Runaway June and Blanco Brown. Jon Loba, EVP BBR Music Group said “We are thrilled to welcome one of Australia’s truly great artists to the BBR family; The Wolfe Brothers. Nick and Tom write world class songs and are incredible live performers. The minute our staff heard their first single No Brakes they were in and wanted to be involved. We look forward to partnering with our amazing BMG Australia team to bring their music to the US!”
The Wolfe Brothers said of the signing announcement: "We are absolutely thrilled to be joining the Broken Bow Records/BMG family for the next phase of our career. To be joining a roster that includes Jason Aldean, Dustin Lynch and Lindsay Ell is truly a dream come true for us and with the help of the dynamic and creative teams in the BMG offices around the world we are looking forward to taking our music and our live show internationally. We feel we are creating the best work of our career at present and look forward to the road ahead with our recording and publishing rights being managed by the passionate Broken Bow Records/BMG teams headed by Heath Johns and Jon Loba. We can’t wait to see where this journey takes us."
Humility is as baked into The Wolfe Brothers’ DNA as music is, but it’s clear that, at this point in their career, it’s time for something bigger: radio crossover, stardom, the massive American market. Tom and Nick Wolfe will always remember where they came from, but “No Brakes” feels like the song that could take them a step further. It may be far cry from their roots, but as Tom says: “We’ve never been the kind of band that stays in one lane.”
“No Brakes” follows seven years of success for The Wolfe Brothers; the band have had 12 consecutive #1 radio airplay singles in Australia, all four studio albums have debut at #2 on the ARIA chart and #1 on the Australian Country Music Album Chart, and the band have been nominated for 19 CMAAs and winning 'Group Of The Year' in 2015, 2016 + 2019, Album of the Year and Song of The Year in 2019.