Julius C

Jay (lead vox /guitar) and Mike (bass) met at NYU in 2003.  They started playing together that fall, and soon, Mike brought in his childhood friend Jason to play keyboards. They spent the next 3 years developing a very heavy 70’s funk/rock sound, evolved into a 10 piece band, burned through 4 drummers and found themselves in the fall of 2007 feeling empty, lost, and disconnected from the music they were playing.

Together with their new permanent drummer, John, they decided to move into a cheap house with a broken jacuzzi in Newark,NJ and write an album.  Mike and Jay had just experienced massive breakups that brought them both into incredibly creative periods of their lives.  By the end of that year, Jay and Mike had both written enough material to fill their own albums.  One day on a camping trip in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, after contemplating going their separate ways, they agreed to give it another try, take the best of each of their songs and join together as a band to create an album that expressed their personal journeys of self discovery after their heartbreak.

They moved into a new house in Jason and Mike’s hometown of Staten Island, and for the next 6 months, the band obsessed in the house, writing, arranging, and producing the album. The combination of Jay’s songwriting skills, Mike’s production ingenuity, Jason’s understanding of arrangement, and John’s raw rock and roll spirit resulted in a powerful story of love, loss, and self discovery, moving through rock, soul, dance, psychedelia and indie-rock, finding moments to be both musically introspective and explosively raw.  They now stand unsigned, united, and determined, ready to share their story and their music with the world.

Notable achievements:

• Julius C played their 4th annual summer camp tour during the summer of 2009, playing at 30 camps in the Northeast with sponsors including Paiste, Pro-Mark, Hartke, and Shure, playing for over 20,000 kids, teens and young adults.
• Julius C has distributed over 20,000 CDs of their original music.
• Julius C played at the RedGorilla festival in Austin, Texas in March 2007 and March 2008.
• Julius C played at the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC in October 2006 and October 2008.
• Julius C played at the Atlantis Music Festival in Atlanta, GA in September 2007.
• Julius C has placed 1st in the Emergenza International Competition out of all of the bands in NYC.  They placed 2nd out of 2000 bands at the National Final at Webster Hall.
• Julius C was picked by the Emergenza International Competition to be one of two bands on the Emergenza B.E.S.T. Tour.  They were chosen out of 4000 bands in North America, and played 30 dates across the Northeast.
• Julius C has performed at Colleges around the northeast such as SUNY Purchase, NYU, Rutgers University, Cornell University, Wagner College, Stonybrook University, and Ithaca College

Instrumentation:

• Jay Stolar – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
• Jason Wexler – Keyboards
• Mike Tuccillo – Bass
• John Adamski – Drums

Discography:

• The Orange EP (2005)
• Julius C Says… (2007)
• Live At The Village Underground (2008)
• Don’t Want Anybody EP (2009)

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