Whenever someone will do a thread of like, great photos taken at 285 Kent or whatever, it always makes me so glad there were people there documenting it because especially during the Pandemic it’s like, oh right, this could actually go away overnight and it’s good people were there as a part of it documenting it. JL: I only went to shows there from 2017-2019! So I didn’t actually have like a huge number of photos to go through, but it made me like realize just how important it was that I pushed myself to go to so many shows and made myself shoot even if I was having a bad day or something What did you learn assembling those photos for a book? I mean, documenting an entire era of shows is quite an undertaking even if the book was maybe more done in retrospect. Talk to me about being a scene photographer. And pre-COVID I went to and took photos of lots of Philly shows and I recently put out my first photo book of photos from everybody hits Then I started visiting there every couple months or so and after I finished school in 2016 I decided to move there in 2018. JL: Well, I booked house shows extensively in college (in Ohio) and started to book a lot of Philly bands and just made a lot of friends and got to know more people there. JL: Thank you! that’s really nice of you to say.Įlaborate on your love of the Philly scene if you can? I feel like that scene ended up being the defining indie rock sound of the 2010s, by and large, like, it was the scene with the most bands and hit home that sonic energy really well over and over again and LONGING feels like it’s totally in that lineage. JL: Yeah I could see that! I love Philly’s scene. I feel like without knowing it most of the musical cuts you’ve played tonight (see below) are good sonic indicators of what the EP sounds like, really tried and true Philly indie rock For sure a face of DC music that I know people from the larger DMV area are very proud of. JL: Yep we did our 2018 release with Fire Talk, we never officially put out one with Babe City but those people were some of the earliest supporters and we played our first show at their house venue. There was a release on Fire Talk, I think I saw one on Babe City? JL: Yes its my first band and we’ve been active since summer of 2015!Īnd Julian has kinda been everywhere. Yeah I was gonna say you’ve been kinda slowly just throwing stuff up there since like, 2015 it looks like. JL: Yeah pretty much! I write the basic song structures/ vocals/lyrics/melody ‘n guitar! But I will say my friends Brendan and Drew have been playing in the band on and off since 2016, our drummer and stuff has changed among other lineups. Yeah your Bandcamp Bio reads “Julia Leiby and other friends,” so is Julian largely you and then whoever is around? Its songs we recorded in April of 2019 though Julia Leiby: Oh yeah! we put it out February 26th. Walk me through that? Self-released it appears? You just dropped a fun little EP called LONGING back in February. This edited transcript is from March 26th with photographer and indie rocker Julia Leiby! You can find a playlist of all Leiby’s picks from that night below! Join us on JQBX.fm every Friday at 6 p.m. Every Friday, Merry-Go-Round Magazine hosts Dime in the JQBX, a fun event where artists from across the musical spectrum come and hang out! During these events, Editor-in-Chief CJ Simonson attempts to navigate a short and often spontaneous interview in the chat with the artists! We figured why not save those and publish some of them, along with the songs that the artist played that night.
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