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Julia Wolf joins Klein. Ally. Show. on KROQ to talk about the massive success of her hit song "In My Room"! We dive into her genius strategy of breaking through the noise by adding her music to Twilight fan clips, her performance at Bella Swan's house in Forks, Washington, and why she believes the first Twilight movie is completely untouchable. Julia also reveals some of her behind-the-scenes tour secrets, including the time she hired a witch off Etsy for $10 to help her find inspiration and protection on the road. Plus, she and Ally bond over their shared alumni status at Purchase College, discussing everything from goddess moon circles to the sheer power of daily manifestation.
We also cover:
-How she manifested playing to her biggest crowd ever in the rain at Lollapalooza.
-The real, less glamorous story behind her missing front tooth.
-The satisfaction of being courted by the very same record labels that originally rejected "In My Room."
-Her upcoming tour dates, including sold-out shows at the Fonda and opening for Pierce the Veil at Petco Park.
We also cover:
-How she manifested playing to her biggest crowd ever in the rain at Lollapalooza.
-The real, less glamorous story behind her missing front tooth.
-The satisfaction of being courted by the very same record labels that originally rejected "In My Room."
-Her upcoming tour dates, including sold-out shows at the Fonda and opening for Pierce the Veil at Petco Park.
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00:00K-Rock, we are Klein Alley Show, and every once in a while they let other humans join us in
00:04the studio, which is nice for us.
00:05Julia Wolfe has one of the biggest songs that we are currently playing on K-Rock, which is called In
00:09My Room,
00:10and it's not a new song, but it may be new to you because we are starting to play it
00:13a lot.
00:13But first of all, Julia, welcome to K-Rock.
00:15Thank you so much.
00:16Thanks for being here. I know it's probably thrilling to hear your song on the radio still, or are you
00:20over that by now?
00:21I will never be over that.
00:22That's what you claim. Trust me, we've talked to a lot of bands. They are over it.
00:26Weezer, they're over it.
00:27They are over it, big time.
00:28Now, it's been something that we've, obviously, we're playing.
00:32The more we're playing, the more people are asking for it, and it's wild to think that here you are
00:36now in our studio,
00:37and we're going to put it on in a moment for people to hear it.
00:39Actually, we've been playing that, I think, three times a morning pretty much every day this week.
00:43But you wrote that song, this was, at this point, what, two years ago, three years ago?
00:47Yeah, yeah, two, two.
00:49Are we slower? Is that because we're slow, or did it finally, has it just taken on a life of
00:53its own recently?
00:54It's definitely taken on a life of its own, but it took me posting about it pretty much three times
00:59a day for about a year before it really found its place online.
01:04I found this to be so fascinating, and I think it's a great way for other people to study how
01:10to break through the noise,
01:11because you're a huge fan of all things Twilight, that's your thing, and you know that that fan base is
01:16a passionate-ass fan base.
01:17You wanted your music to get out there, so you just started putting your songs into clips from the movie,
01:22and those got spread among the Twilight community.
01:25It was almost a genius way to sneak in.
01:28Yeah, you're inserting it into a world that you're already in.
01:31You basically made yourself the unofficial soundtrack of a movie franchise that you were just a huge fan of,
01:36and then the fans started putting in their own brains, connecting your music with that, all things Twilight,
01:42and then you just got embraced.
01:44Completely.
01:44And then they kind of blew it up online for you.
01:46Which was incredible, because I am quite self-conscious when it comes to being on video,
01:51and being the one who has to promote the music and show myself,
01:55so I needed an outlet, so that it wasn't just me all the time.
01:59And of course, I am the biggest Twilight fan, and it just made sense to inject myself in that community,
02:06so that we can all be fangirls, and we can all relate to the same thing of wishing we were
02:12with Edward Collins.
02:14Wishing that we could be vampires and in love.
02:16And since you've broken out as an artist into the Twilight world,
02:19have you been in contact with the cast at any point?
02:23Has there been any movement there?
02:24Is that a bucket list thing for you?
02:26I know your new tour, you're going to be starting in Forks, Washington.
02:29Yes.
02:29I mean, for me, just getting to play those shows at Bella Swan's house was the peak for me.
02:37But yeah, I'm going to be doing that Forks festival.
02:39It's like a Twilight festival.
02:41And I think some of the actors will be there, but no, I haven't really connected with anyone.
02:46But were you a fan of the books first?
02:49Oh, yes.
02:49Okay, so, but if they were ever to reboot that series, would that be something you're on board with?
02:54Or are you like, no, it needs to stay the way it was?
02:57I am a fan of things remaining when they are perfect already.
03:04And to me, the first movie cannot be touched.
03:07It cannot be redone.
03:08There's just no need.
03:09The blue filter, like, everything was so blue.
03:12But do you think that now you got so entrenched in that Twilight world that you, because I don't know
03:17if this is true or not, you have actually hired a witch.
03:20You've gone into the world of the dark, right?
03:22You've hired a witch off Etsy.
03:23True or false?
03:24True.
03:24Okay.
03:25So you now love this mystical, magical stuff.
03:29And when you hire a witch on Etsy, what's the goal?
03:31What's your end game with that?
03:33That's really funny that you know that.
03:34What are you trying to do?
03:36Like, what is your goal to do that?
03:38Like, are you trying to, a spell, are you trying to, on an X?
03:42On what?
03:43On an X?
03:44You putting a spell on an X?
03:45No, no, no.
03:46It's always stuff about, like, help me find inspiration or, like, protection.
03:52You think it's a real witch or you think you got scammed?
03:54I think it's always better if I do it myself, but I was on tour when I did that.
03:58I was like, I don't have my things here.
04:01I can't light these candles on the bus, so, like, let me just mess around with Etsy.
04:05And you found someone on Etsy, a witch.
04:07Yeah, absolutely.
04:07What does that cost, a witch on Etsy?
04:09Oh, nothing.
04:10Like, I don't know.
04:11Of course.
04:11I think it's, like, ten bucks.
04:13I think you can get a spell for pretty cheap.
04:14I'm going to tell you something about Allie, and I found this out off the air.
04:17You guys apparently went to the same college.
04:19We went to college together.
04:20I don't know if you know that.
04:21Must be one of those witch colleges, because Allie also plays in the dark arts, and she...
04:25It actually kind of was a...
04:27I mean, it's a very alternative college.
04:28They tried to start a sorority, and people protested.
04:30But I want to ask you, Julia Wolfe is in our studio right now, by the way,
04:34and we make Allie, we feel bad about herself, because she does go sit in these goddess moon
04:38circles, and she makes moon water and stuff.
04:40I do a moon circle group, yeah.
04:41Oh, God.
04:42Every new moon and full moon.
04:43I know.
04:43And I make moon water.
04:45Oh, my gosh.
04:45Can I join the coven?
04:47Yeah.
04:47Oh, no.
04:47Don't encourage this behavior.
04:49Oh, I love it.
04:49You can't encourage this behavior.
04:50And it's gotten too big.
04:52It's now at a bigger space, because there are so many women.
04:55Now they have, like, it used to just be a circle.
04:57Now it's, like, multiple circles, like shark teeth, just in rows.
05:00I thought you got thrown out, though.
05:01I thought you got tossed.
05:02I didn't get tossed.
05:03I thought you weren't participating in the cauldron burn or something.
05:06Well, you know, my wife and I like to go together, and now the way of the kid is just
05:10a little harder to go in person and do them.
05:12Yeah, yeah.
05:13Plus, it's a women-only group, so he wouldn't be able to come to that.
05:17But I would do manifestation letters, burn letters, and all that kind of stuff.
05:22And, yeah, you can get really deep with it.
05:23Wow, look at her.
05:24Mind is blown out.
05:25No, I'm huge on the manifestation.
05:26I feel like it's honestly a big reason why things worked out the way they did, because
05:31I was just writing down exactly what I wanted every single day for, like, a year.
05:37And so it is done.
05:38Did you write down coming into K-Rock in Los Angeles and sitting across from a burly lesbian?
05:44Did you write this down on your-
05:47Did you write this down on your page, or no?
05:50That's for me to know.
05:51Okay, well, that's incredible.
05:52You can't know what's in the letter.
05:54We get back in a moment.
05:55We will play you the Julia Wolfe song that's getting a lot of airplay on K-Rock these days.
05:59Talk a little bit about the tour, where you'll see her upcoming, sadly, the show is good
06:02for you, of course.
06:03Already sold out the upcoming ones in October, which means, no offense to the Fonda, great
06:07venue.
06:07Too small for you now, at this point.
06:09You've outgrown your venues, which means you must go to bigger places.
06:11We will get into that and more after this with K-Rock's newest artist, superstar, Julia
06:16Wolfe next.
06:17Klein Alley Show.
06:18K-R-O-Q.
06:21That is new K-Rock music.
06:22It is called In My Room by Julia Wolfe.
06:24And Julia Wolfe is in the K-Rock studios right now.
06:26Hello.
06:27How does that sound to you?
06:29It sounds like we made it in our bedroom, which is what we did.
06:33It's kind of crazy.
06:34It's kind of tough because I'm pregnant.
06:36It makes me cry.
06:37Oh, now it's getting emotional now.
06:38But to be fair, also the commercials for Chipotle make her cry, too.
06:43Honestly, I'm the same way.
06:44Fresh off of Lollapalooza, I don't know if that was one of the things that you had manifested
06:48for yourself as well, but that's obviously one of the big ones right there.
06:52Huge, huge.
06:52To go there on stage in front of that many people.
06:55Biggest crowd you've ever played for, I'm sure.
06:56Oh my gosh, yes.
06:57Did you freak out ahead of time?
07:00Did you have the swamp ass, which I know has been a problem on the road as well?
07:03Oh my God.
07:04I mean, the 2 p.m. slot, obviously my initial thing when I saw that was like,
07:10okay, no one's coming and that's fine.
07:12That's fine.
07:13I'm used to that.
07:14But then when I got there, it was the biggest crowd I've ever seen.
07:20It starts raining during the sun.
07:22Oh, that's right.
07:22The perfect amount, the twilight of it all.
07:25Like, we just brought the Pacific Northwest to Chicago that day and it was incredible.
07:30Oh my God.
07:31And you're obviously embarking on a new tour, but in some of the many locations that you've
07:36been over the last year, did you, you lost a tooth on, on the tour?
07:41What happened there?
07:42I may have made it look like I lost it on tour, but I've actually had this tooth missing
07:47for quite a while.
07:49Okay.
07:49I was like, damn, this went hard.
07:52I know.
07:52No, no, I just never have gotten it fixed, which I need to do that.
07:56My teeth fall out during the show sometimes.
07:58Yeah.
07:58He doesn't have his two front teeth, actually.
08:00They're fake.
08:00Baseball incident.
08:01What was yours?
08:02Meth?
08:04No, I had a root canal gone bad.
08:06A root canal gone bad.
08:07That's a good story.
08:09Good story.
08:10Get her on the lie detector test.
08:12You went to the same college as I did, and I assume we had the same college experience.
08:16Did you also take ecstasy and then fall asleep with a lit cigarette in your hand, or was
08:20your experience at Purchase College different than mine?
08:22You know, it was a little different.
08:24Uh-huh.
08:25I would say I mostly didn't leave my room.
08:29Well, and you majored in music composition, but I think you were mainly a, you know, you
08:34would focus on playing the instruments.
08:36But was there from the beginning the idea of like, well, I can sing too.
08:40I know that I'm going to be singing my own music.
08:42Or were you planning on just being a background composer and then suddenly it pivoted?
08:46It's exactly that where in my heart I knew, okay, I'm going to be a singer and there is
08:51no plan B for me, but I just couldn't admit that out loud to people.
08:55So I would say like, yeah, I'll do film score or, you know, I'll work at Carnegie Hall.
09:02Like, I don't know, whatever it was.
09:04But I knew that I wanted to sing.
09:06And how many people since now you've started to break through and you have the song that
09:11is getting more popular by the day have reached out to say either, wow, you proved
09:15me wrong, you were right, you did it or any, any famous people that you look up to that
09:20have reached out to you, but they just want to let you know, love your song, you're on
09:22the right track.
09:23I mean, yes.
09:25It has happened.
09:26Yes.
09:27And I think, but the best thing is like how I brought in my room to pretty much every label
09:33you could think of and they all said no.
09:36That's the best.
09:36And now they all are like, hey, remember when we talked about that?
09:40Like whatever.
09:41And you're trying to come back.
09:42That's a great feeling.
09:43Yeah, yeah, because, I mean, listen, the reality is you're going to get rejected in
09:47life.
09:47It doesn't matter what it relates.
09:48Jake, right?
09:49Relationships happens all the time.
09:50Every time.
09:50Jake gets rejected all the time.
09:52And now look at you.
09:52And now look at you.
09:53Sitting in that back room in those jean shorts holding that dog, right?
09:56And you're showing us.
09:57But the point is you're going to get rejected.
09:59All those girls that rejected you.
09:59You're going, the one that got away.
10:01I mean, I always find that to be so fascinating.
10:02A TV show becomes a monster hit and you hear about all the stations that passed on it.
10:06And you go, these are professionals and they passed on the biggest show ever.
10:09Breaking Bad, I think it got passed on by all these different networks.
10:11You know, you went in, you played your music, you watched them look at you.
10:14They probably looked you in the face and go, eh, it's fine.
10:16It's not for us or whatever.
10:18Yeah, I just didn't have the numbers yet.
10:19I didn't have the numbers that they wanted.
10:21Go work on your social media following and come back and see us.
10:24Verbatim, yeah.
10:25It makes my blood boil hearing that.
10:26Verbatim.
10:26We hear that regularly.
10:27And they also tell us to work on our physical appearance and smells.
10:30Oh, we get that a lot.
10:31Which we're still working on.
10:32Hey, let me ask you a question.
10:33We have some instruments in the studio because we were playing these earlier today.
10:35You see that little keyboard right there, the Cocomelon keyboard?
10:38I do.
10:38Do you think you could play that since you're trained musically?
10:41Whoa.
10:41Could you make that sound good?
10:43Anything at all?
10:44We're not going to judge here.
10:45Oh.
10:46Is it even on?
10:46Oh, I turn it on.
10:47Oh, there we go.
10:48There you go.
10:49Oh, you're good.
10:49Now she's ready.
10:50Is that you?
10:50That's incredible.
10:51Is that an original?
10:53Yep, that was it.
10:53Let me hear, let me hear, just, here we go.
10:55Put you on the spot here.
10:56It's Julia Wolfe.
11:01I know this one.
11:03This is good.
11:04Is this an original too?
11:08I learned that in college.
11:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:09It's just good.
11:10We wrap up all chats at KROQ with not one, but two epic questions.
11:13Here we go.
11:14Two.
11:15Two.
11:16Two.
11:17Two.
11:17Two.
11:18Epic.
11:18Question.
11:20Question.
11:21Question.
11:22Julia Wolfe on Instagram at JuliaWolfeNYC.
11:26Song you're hearing a lot on KROQ these days in my room.
11:28New single.
11:29Deep End, which you can check out on all streaming platforms.
11:33And shows coming up, including the one at the Fonda, sold out already on the 25th and
11:3726th of October.
11:39But we have sent some listeners to Petco Park in San Diego, September 12th, where she will
11:43be opening for Pierce the Veil.
11:45So there you go.
11:46Just a sampling of what you can look forward to.
11:48Julia Wolfe, question number one.
11:50Epic question number one.
11:51Allie, what is it?
11:51Julia Wolfe, you go to a restaurant and you would like to sit outside and they say, I'm
11:57sorry, we don't have outside available.
11:59We either have inside or you can wait.
12:02What is your choice?
12:04I'm definitely sitting inside because I hate bugs.
12:08Oh, you're an insider.
12:10Oh, Cocomelon's turning off.
12:12Cocomelon agrees.
12:13That means you got that right, I guess.
12:14So you would rather, but if you, like, if your choice was not available, you wouldn't
12:19wait.
12:20You would just take first available.
12:21You want to sit down.
12:23Yeah, I want to sit down quick.
12:25Of course.
12:26I mean, unless, what's the view?
12:27Are we, like, on a pretty dock somewhere, you know, or then I'll wait.
12:32For me, it doesn't matter.
12:33Even if it's one minute, I'm like, I'm sitting wherever you want to put me.
12:35Pretty much.
12:36I'll eat right now.
12:36You can bring me, I'll eat the food at the host stand and just start eating.
12:39That's a good question.
12:40Epic question number two.
12:42You've now performed in front of tens of thousands of people.
12:46What is the weirdest thing you've ever seen anyone doing in a crowd while you've been
12:49performing?
12:50Because I know you're looking out and you're seeing people do things.
12:52There's more pressure now than ever before an artist to stop a show if someone looks
12:56like they're getting trampled and whatever.
12:58But every once in a while, you've got to just see someone going knuckles deep, picking
13:00their nose.
13:01You're going, that's interesting.
13:02What is one thing you've witnessed happen at one of your shows from someone in the crowd?
13:06I mean, the most ridiculous thing that happened, because obviously my crowd is a bit softer,
13:12like we're emotional, whatever.
13:13But these two guys just started wailing at each other, like punching each other in the
13:18They're in one of your songs?
13:19Yeah.
13:19I'm like, guys, this is not the vibe.
13:22We're all emailing out here.
13:24What are you doing?
13:26It was so random and weird and everyone was like, what?
13:30Okay.
13:30Maybe it opened up some skeletons in their soul that they couldn't figure out how to handle
13:34or something.
13:34I'm too vulnerable.
13:36I don't like this feeling.
13:37Kick me in the face.
13:38Yeah.
13:39Julia Wolfe, thank you for coming by, K-Raw.
13:40Thank you so much, guys.
13:42This is awesome.
13:43And I look forward to seeing big things from you in the immediate future and long-term
13:47future.
13:47And you can remember that we were friends.
13:49And now it's nice to know that Allie has moved down another peg on most successful
13:52people to ever graduate from her college.
13:54Oh, yeah.
13:54Allie is now out of the top 100.
13:56Me and Stanley Tucci, Wesley Snipes, Regina Spector, and more.
14:00And Julia Wolfe.
14:00That's right.
14:01Yeah, and I Spice.
14:01I Spice.
14:02That's right.
14:02Well, Julia Wolfe has just bumped Allie down another spot, so Allie is now out, and they'll
14:07stop hitting her up for money.
14:08All right.
14:08Goodbye.
14:09The world famous K-Rock.
14:11Klein Alley Show.
14:13Klein Alley Show.
14:13K-Rock.
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