Kevin Hoopes
Photographer
@dontshoothoopes
Northside Festival kicks off in two weeks. To get in the spirit, Bushwick Daily sat down with some of the local artists involved. In this case, we caught up with indie-pop band Wet Leather.
We met last week at a setting comfortable and familiar to almost everyone in the neighborhood, The Three Diamond Door. More specifically, the elevated booth in the back which perfectly fit one reporter, one photographer, and four musicians. Happily situated with beers and burritos, we got to chatting about everything from the band’s early days, to their debut record release, to the upcoming show at Our Wicked Lady for Northside Festival.
The guys (minus their drummer) all met years ago at their alma mater, Wesleyan University. However, it wasn’t until two years after the youngest members of the band—Dema Paxton-Fofang and Jason Katzenstein— graduated, that they all reunited in New York City to form the “goofy supergroup” presently known as Wet Leather.
