Early childhood Brian and Michael were born two years apart from each other, both in March. Ronnie D'Addario, their father, is a musician and songwriter from Manhattan who played with Irish folk singer
Tommy Makem. Susan Hall, their mother, is a neuropsychologist from Ohio who pursued acting and entertainment in her younger years.
Formation and first years Brian and Michael D'Addario had extensive stage experience as children. Brian played
Gavroche in
Les Miserables and Flounder in
The Little Mermaid on Broadway. Michael appeared in
The Coast of Utopia,
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and the 2008 production of
All My Sons. Michael also appeared in a variety of television shows and films, such as
John Adams on HBO,
Are We There Yet? on TBS, and the 2012 films
People Like Us and
Sinister. The D'Addario brothers first played music together in a
cover band called Members of the Press. The Lemon Twigs were founded by the brothers while they were both students at
Hicksville High School on Long Island, New York. The siblings both perform lead vocals, lead guitar, drums and other instruments.
2016–2018: Do Hollywood festival in Germany, 2018. In 2014, the unsigned D'Addarios approached
Jonathan Rado of
Foxygen on
Twitter with demo recordings in hopes of attracting interest. Rado flew the brothers out to Los Angeles to record a series of basic album tracks and spent 18 months engineering and refining the tracks. The brothers also signed with the British independent label
4AD. and performed on television programs like
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,
CBS This Morning Saturday Sessions,
Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Later... with Jools Holland, and
Late Night with Seth Meyers. In early 2017 it was announced that the band would play on day one of the
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on April 14, 2017. This performance saw the Twigs joined by one of the band's "favorite musicians ever, in the whole world",
Todd Rundgren, to play "Couldn't I Just Tell You" from Rundgren's classic 1972
double album,
Something/Anything? The Lemon Twigs released the
Do Hollywood tracks "These Words" and "As Long As We're Together" as a double-A-side single, and made videos for both songs. The third single was the album opener, "I Wanna Prove to You", with a video directed by Nick Roney. The band played at several major festivals in the summer of 2017, such as
Glastonbury,
Outside Lands,
Lollapalooza,
Austin City, and the
Montreux, in addition to opening for
Phoenix across the United States. The Lemon Twigs performed with Thomas Hedlund of Phoenix on drums while supporting Phoenix at the
Hollywood Bowl alongside
Mac DeMarco. In September 2017 the band released an EP,
Brothers of Destruction, containing songs recorded during the
Do Hollywood sessions.
2018–2019: Go to School The band's second album,
Go to School, a musical about a chimpanzee raised as a human boy, was released on August 24, 2018. Singles included: "If You Give Enough," "Small Victories," and "The Fire." The album debuted at number 93 on the
UK Albums Chart on September 6, 2018. The band were also announced as one of the support acts for
Arctic Monkeys' 2018 tour in support of their album
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Appearing on the album were
Todd Rundgren and
Big Star drummer
Jody Stephens.
2020–2022: Songs for the General Public On March 2, 2020, the band announced that
Songs for the General Public, their third studio album, was scheduled to be released on May 1, 2020. However, due to complications of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the album's release was changed to August 21, 2020. Singles included: "The One," "Moon," "Only A Fool," and "No One Holds You (Closer Than the One You Haven't Met)."
2023–present: Everything Harmony, A Dream Is All We Know and Till The Morning In March 2023, the D'Addarios backed
Zombies singer
Colin Blunstone at the
South by Southwest festival in
Austin, Texas. On May 5, 2023, the Twigs released their fourth album,
Everything Harmony, through
Captured Tracks. It was self-produced by the band and received positive reviews from critics. The album produced the singles "Corner of My Eye," "In My Head," "Anytime of Day," and "Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life." The band supported the album release with a tour of North America and western Europe, concluding in
London on June 1, 2023.
A Dream Is All We Know is the band's fifth studio album, released on May 3, 2024. It was preceded by four singles, the first being "power-pop anthem" "My Golden Years" on January 2, 2024. The album and album artwork were subsequently announced on
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 31, 2024. The three succeeding singles for the album were: "They Don't Know How To Fall In Place", "A Dream Is All I Know", and "How Can I Love Her More". In May 2024, the Lemon Twigs began a tour of North America and Europe in support of
A Dream Is All We Know, including a string of shows opening for
Lake Street Dive and a main stage performance at the
Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona. On August 9, they performed at San Francisco's annual
Outside Lands festival. On September 1, they played the
End of the Road Festival in southwest England. On February 19, 2025, Brian D'Addario released a single, "Till The Morning", from a
solo album of the same name released on March 20. Despite the solo billing, Michael D'Addario co-produced the album, contributed backing vocals, and co-wrote two of the songs. Former Beach Boys collaborator
Stephen Kalinich also wrote the lyrics for two songs. D'Addario described the album's sound as "country
baroque". In October 2025, the Lemon Twigs released "Not Today", a cover of a song written by their father, Ronnie D'Addario. The brothers helped their father record and produce an album of his songs, called ''Written by Ronnie D'Addario'', released on November 28, 2025. The album features contributions from
Darian Sahanaja,
Mac DeMarco,
Sean Ono Lennon,
Todd Rundgren, and
Matt Jardine. On November 25, 2025, the Twigs released two new songs, "I've Got A Broken Heart" and "Friday (I'm Gonna Love You)". == Collaborations and production work ==