Miles Brown (6)

In 1998 Miles Brown began his music career with a set of tri-toms in a marching band. After improving his marching skills he began to look elsewhere for musical challenges starting set drumming in 2004 with his first band Crisis Point. A grueling practice schedule found him a second band The Kilz, who he met in a studio on “the Mesa” in central California. Crisis Point was a throwback to South Bay, Redondo Beach punk rock while The Kilz retained a surfy melodic rock style that was both mellow and edgy in its lyrical composition. Miles played drums in numerous compilations including both bands. Eventually, he laid tracks for Crisis Point’s debut album as well as The Kilz-released self-titled EP and their later feature on an LP titled “Nardcore: 30 Years Later”. After three or so years of touring and playing shows all over California, Oregon, and Washington with The Kilz, Miles met a ska guitarist from Las Vegas and started a seven-piece ska band called The Action League. After their debut during a battle of the bands in San Luis Obispo with a four-song EP, The Action League continued as a fusion ska, reggae, punk band until they broke up in early 2012. During this time Miles was also involved in Stab Your Back and Exit Plan. He played shows for a year or so with these two bands before travelling to the San Francisco Bay Area where he joined a project called Cheap Squeeze. Stylistically, Miles’s influences include The Suicide Machines, and Northern California bands such as Primus, Dead Kennedys, A.F.I, The Nerve Agents, and Choking Victim. While some of his Southern California influences include: NOFX, Lagwagon, Mad Caddies, RX Bandits, Descendants, Dead Kennedys, Operation Ivy, The Aquabats!, and The Vandals. Throughout Miles’s musical career he has played guitar for fun and has skill as a rhythm guitarist, as well as singing back-ups. In 2013, he joined the SPEBSQSA and began singing and practicing four-part harmonies in both chorus and quartet format going so far as to win a bronze medal after performing with the Masters of Harmony in 2016. He continues to this day as a Lead with the The Fog City Singers in San Francisco. To date Miles lives in Northern California with a new project experimentally called “Good Death”.