What Brothers Nat & Alex Wolff Learned on Tour With Billie Eilish

Welcome to SOUND ADVICE, Interview’s weekly destination for playlists curated by our friends, enemies, and lovers. In recent weeks, we’ve featured playlists from Skype Williams, True Blue, and LSDXOXO. This week’s installment comes from indie pop duo and one-time Nickelodeon stars Nat & Alex Wolff, whose new, self-titled studio album, their third full-length as a pair, arrives this week. Anchored by a string of singles written on the road while opening for Billie Eilish on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour, the album features tracks like “Soft Kissing Hour” and the more recent “Emilia,” offering a glimpse into the duo’s grown-up glow-up. Apart from music, they’ve been busy on the silver screen, too: Nat in the Shane Black heist film Play Dirty and Alex in the Chloë Sevigny-led absurdist comedy Magic Farm. To celebrate their return to music, we had the brothers craft us a playlist and answer our questionnaire, where they tell us their dream collaborator, the songs that turns them on, and a few life lessons learned from one of the world’s biggest pop stars.

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Best concert you went to in 2025: Alex G at Radio City [Music Hall]. Or the last show of Hit Me Hard and Soft tour in San Francisco. Or Cameron Winter at The Palace [Theatre].

What’s your national anthem?

NAT: “In My Life” and “Hey Jude” [by The Beatles] and  “Martha” by Tom Waits.

ALEX: The National Anthem.

One thing you’ve learned from Billie Eilish: Pickleball rules. Don’t step in the kitchen. How to be a world class artist with grace and make her fans all feel so special and beloved while never sacrificing her artistry or sense of cool.

What song on this playlist do you wish you wrote? “Ambulance Blues” [by Neil Young]. No one writes a heartbreaking line like Neil.

What song on this playlist turns you on? Not on the playlist (couldn’t find it). The theme on Mario Tennis Pro on the original Nintendo.

Where’s the afters?

NAT: At my house sitting in a circle listening to sad music.

ALEX: Ikea.

Describe the new record in three words:

ALEX: Nat and Alex.

NAT: The joke I came up with would get us in too much trouble with the internet.

Dream collab, dead or alive? Adrianne Lenker and Paul McCartney.

How do you rage?

NAT: Less than I used to.

ALEX: Nesquik.

Name your favorite artist nobody knows about: They might know but This is Lorelei or Astronauts etc.

Who’s the queen of pop? Billie [Eilish].

Best part about working with your sibling—and the worst? We get to hang out with each other so much more than we probably would. Worst. No one can ever tell us apart. Even our mom can’t these days. Our grandpa is 98 and has just decided there’s one of us.

The world is ending. What are you wearing?

NAT: We can’t come to an agreement. I said, “Eddie Murphy’s suit from [Eddie Murphy:] Raw.” Alex said that wasn’t very funny. He said, “shower cap.” I didn’t really think that was that funny. We argued a little, and then I just wrote this down explaining our process of answering questions for this interview.