Marc "Brownie" Brownstein (born April 8, 1973) is the founder and bassist of Philadelphia-based jamtronica band, The Disco Biscuits. He is also a co-founder and co-chair of voter registration group, HeadCount

HeadCount

HeadCount is a nonpartisan organization that works with musicians to promote participation in democracy in the US. It is best known for registering voters at concerts – having signed up 175,000 voters since its launch in 2004. It also encourages voter turnout and general civic participation...

, as well as the host of weekly radio show, "Jamtronica," on Sirius Satellite Radio's jamband channel, Jam On.

Brownstein is married, has three kids and is Jewish. He attended Poly Prep Country Day School.
Personal Life

Brownstein also leads Electron (the first band to perform his rock opera, Chemical Warfare Brigade

Chemical Warfare Brigade

Chemical Warfare Brigade is a rock opera created by Marc Brownstein of the trance fusion band The Disco Biscuits. It was written during Marc Brownstein's dismissal from the band and was debuted by Electron. Since the Disco Biscuits rarely play a full Chemical Warfare Brigade, Disco Biscuits fans...

), an all star collaboration that includes Aron Magner

Aron Magner

Aron Magner is a Philadelphia-based musician best known as the keyboardist and founding member of The Disco Biscuits. Magner and The Disco Biscuits have been instrumental in bringing live and studio improvisational, electronic-based music to the forefront of the live music scene and, increasingly,...

 (The Disco Biscuits) on keys, Tom Hamilton (Brothers Past

Brothers Past

Brothers Past are an indie-electronic band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that has been called "one of the most talked about independent acts in the nation." Since forming in 2000, the band has released three records and one EP, including the critically acclaimed This Feeling's Called Goodbye in...

, Tom Hamilton's American Babies) on guitar, and Joe Russo

Joe Russo (musician)

Joe Russo is an American drummer and half of the Benevento/Russo Duo. He plays with a number of other bands, including A Big Yes and a Small No, Fat Mama, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Danjaboots, Bustle In Your Hedgerow, Electron , Younger Brother, Shpongle, Tom Hamilton's American Babies, the...

 (The Benevento/Russo Duo, Tom Hamilton's American Babies) on drums. Electron was formed during Brownie's brief hiatus from The Biscuits after Brownstein and the Biscuits went separate ways in 2000.

Electron is only the tip of the iceberg as far as side projects go. Conspirator featuring Aron Magner and formerly DJ Omen is a live electronic act that was born out of the ashes of Sam Altman's departure from the Disco Biscuits in 2005. Conspirator became its own project, selling out venues across the country. Conspirator is now just Brownstein and Magner, and this new leaner and meaner version of Conspirator has been known to play until sunrise to a packed, and enthusaistic crowd.

In addition to Electron and Conspirator, Marc also is involved in (in no particular order) Sucker Punch, The Maui Project, JM2, Laverneous Cool, The Join, The Brain Damaged Eggmen, and most recently the project Younger Brother

Younger Brother

Younger Brother is an electronic duo formed in 2003 by Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan. Their debut album A Flock of Bleeps was released in 2003, followed by The Last Days of Gravity in 2007 and Vaccine in 2011....

 with psy trance phenom Simon Posford.