Pledgers will have noted that Juliana recently posted a photo taken from a shoot in New York with Brad Walsh.

Three other photos from the shoot are now up on Brad's Flickr pages:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268150566 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268157838 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268166162

Thanks to Andrew for posting this info at This is the Sound

really liking alpinisms by school of seven bells that my friend turned me onto the other day

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 24, 2012

Alpinisms is the 2008 debut album from School Of Seven Bells.

The band are heavily played on the liveontomorrow.co.uk stereo and their two subsequent albums - 2010's Disconnect From Desire and this year's Ghostory come highly recommended.

Good to know Jules is now a fan.

Two upcoming shows on the same day - acoustic and full band, both at Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA on Wednesday, June 27 2012.

In her announcement at PledgeMusic, Juliana says while there is the possibility of further shows this year, these could be the only performances in support of the covers album. Her discomfort with playing live has been well documented for many years, and you'll recall there was only one full band show for the previous album.

Billed as 'private shows', tickets (priced at $50 each) go on sale to pledgers at PledgeMusic tomorrow (19 May 2012) at 10am EST.

If you can't make it, you may be able to hear it later:

@VoodooHipster @PledgeMusic will record shows but gotta have time to mix it to my liking for possible release later on

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 18, 2012

Who will you be covering and was it hard to narrow down the songs?

A funny thing is that a bunch of the songs are from about 10 years ago. I don’t know what it is about that period of time, but I keep going there. One example is the song “Fruit Fly” by Nada Surf, a band I like a lot. And I was lucky to have Matthew Caws (the singer from Nada Surf) sing on a few of the songs on the album. He did not sing on his song, “Fruit Fly,” though.

You can read a short Q&A with Juliana on PledgeMusic's blog.

Some Some Girls news:

Heidi Gluck is currently touring the US with Joel Henderson, both as opening act and playing in Joel's band.

thanks to Carlos for the info.

PledgeMusic update for non-pledgies:

In recent days Juliana has posted video of acoustic performances of Blur's Coffee + TV, her own On Your Mind, and a duet with Joe Keefe on Neil Young's Barstool Blues.

You may recall that Juliana recorded the Young song acoustically in 2011, releasing it to pledgers during her previous project.

@pictureboxsongs:

It's Record Store Day, and this here video is about buying music in a record store. How about that?

Picturebox's rather lovely Juliana Hatfield song, now with added video.

It was filmed in the English city of Canterbury by the songwriter Rob Halcrow, a reader of this site. Excellent stuff. Bonus points for featuring Peanuts characters.

A reminder that you can download the song at bandcamp.

I've been working extensively on the new Juliana Hatfield covers album. It's going to be super cool! Hooray! Songs are top secret. :)

Well, not all the songs are that secret.

If you're a pledger you can now hear what Juliana describes as "a bit of a weird mix" of Liz Phair's Friend Of Mine, in a work in progress update in the covers album project.

Spoiler Alert!

Although Juliana's intention is to keep the songs chosen for the covers project a secret, this doesn't really fit with the PledgeMusic 'updates from the studio' idea. Inevitably, we have been hearing snippets along the way and now some songs as works in progress.

If you really don't want to know their identity, it looks like you'll have to skim the Pledge updates avoiding the songs and the user comments, which isn't really the idea is it! Oh, and don't come to this site either. Smiley winking face emoticon thing.

Having previously uploaded a video snippet of Pete Yorn's Closet, Juliana has now posted a demo.

@peteyorn closet!

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) April 22, 2012

@peteyorn will do

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) April 22, 2012

if i did ever do karaoke i think i would do the theme from the spy who loved me

Now if Juliana were ever to make a covers album...