Juliana: Yeah, but we could move to another city, just not New York.

Greg: We're kind of feeling like we need a new inspiration, different people to play for.

Juliana: When you play a city for five years--Greg and I have played here for five years--and we were signed once, but it didn't work out.

Who were you signed with?

Juliana: With Epic, but it didn't work out. We got a development deal for six months. We were very in-between pop and alternative then. All the independents thought we were too pop, and all the majors thought we were too alternative. So they wanted to sign us, but they were like: Could you be a little more poppy? Greg and I had to go write with some writer in New York who wrote Cher hits. But it was a good lesson: just never be what you're not.

Greg: We kind of weren't sure what we were. And in the last year, we've really found out what we feel, and what kind of music we want to do. We've grown and gone through all this developing, and this year it's kind of all come together. And we're so happy with it.

Juliana: I just want to tell you what happened with the Epic deal. The head of the label started really liking us when we turned in our five-song tape, but then he got fired. And the new guy really didn't like us.

You were saying you weren't sure what kind of music you played before. How would you categorize your music now?

Greg: We kind of don't like to categorize it. We like to do a lot of different kind of stuff. I guess if you have to, it's alternative.

Juliana: It's the kind of alternative that's easy to listen to. I think we're more like bands that came out of the '70s, and that's why we're hard to define--because I'm a woman, and those bands had male singers. If you can think of one band, there's Jefferson Airplane, but we don't sound like Jefferson Airplane.

Jay: We do a live show, a lot of energy. Some bands are more studio bands, and we're more of live band.

Juliana: We haven't really captured our songs on tape.

What would you like to see happen with your band?

Greg: We'd really like to get signed by a small independent label. That would be the best.

Jay: We'd get a chance to go on the road. We want to get out and have more people see us.

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