Kevin Bacon and his bro to sizzle your summer

You could easily call Friday “National Actors Releasing Albums Day”: Kevin Bacon, Scarlett Johannsson and Erza Miller are among the famous faces dropping new music.

But releasing music for those well-known for their roles in movies haven’t always been accepting or a breeze.

“It’s crazy how actors bring out some kind of hostility from a rock music crowd that rock (fans think), ‘We have our idols and we don’t want you to try to share that.’ That kind of hero worship drives me crazy. I just find it such nonsense,” Michael Bacon, Kevin’s older brother and bandmate, said in an interview this week.

“I will say though that resistance to that idea comes from rock press and rock radio, but not from rock musicians. In my experience, when we play with musicians, musicians are incredibly welcoming of us. That’s not just studio guys, guys we’re paying, it’s like big musicians,” Kevin, 59, added.

“And the other thing is you’ve been accepted as a professional musician,” Michael, 68, said looking to his brother. “It takes a while to do that.” “It takes 25 years,” Kevin laughed.

The Bacon Brothers have been on the music scene for over two decades, releasing their debut album, “Forosoco,” in 1997. Their latest, a selftitled 10-track set, comes out on Friday, the same day they’ll launch their three-month U.S. tour. (On Friday Johannsson will release an EP with Pete Yorn and Miller’s band, Sons of an Illustrious Father, will drop its sophomore album).

Kevin and Michael recall years ago using another name for their band when releasing music to see what attention they would get.

“What happened is they started distributing the record to FM radio and didn’t say who it was and people really were playing it,” Michael said. “We got a little traction from it but it’s a lot of work to do that, too.”

“The Bacon Brothers” was produced by G.E. Smith, the former “Saturday Night Live” music director and guitarist of Hall & Oates. It starts off with “Tom Petty T-Shirt,” written shortly after the rock icon died.

The duo’s tour started in Rocky Mount, Virginia, on Friday. They wrap on Aug. 11 in Glenside, Pennsylvania.