A (very) limited number of T-shirts from the recent Juliana & Evan shows are now on sale at Juliana's official site. UPDATE Jan 16 - They are now sold out.
Priced at $20 plus shipping to US, Canada, Europe, Japan & Australia they are available in noir et blanc or couleur.
No sign of the mugs for sale, sadly.
Aficionados of the air guitar may care to note that for the first time a Juliana song is coming to Rock Band.
Available next week as a downloadable add-on for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, the latest song pack for the game will include Nirvana from Hey Babe.
Makes you wanna go fuck shit up. With buttons.
When she's not busy saving stray dogs and other 'super secret' non-musical adventures it appears Juliana is also now a consumer champion. Today's blog post addresses the vital matter of the new US 2 piece King Size Snickers bar and the inane brevity of the manufacturers' reply to her complaint.
Such an important issue that liveontomorrow.co.uk has taken to Google to find a more detailed answer from Mars Chocolate North America:
"The size of the product was changed in order to hold the retail price steady. This is also directly related to manufacturing and ingredient costs. When you compare the weight of any product of equally high quality, we are confident our candy would cost less per ounce."
Juliana has written a new article for the Huffington Post on her Save a Sato dog rescue patronage.
She previously mentioned her interest in this project last month.
For those who may have missed the news, a reminder that Juliana has recently resurrected her blog pages on the official site. She may have quit social networks but appears to be now using the blog for random thoughts rather than the song inspired essays of yore. It now looks like many other blogs with Twitter-ish posts - a means for her to communicate if not (by virtue of comments being disabled) to interact. If you enjoyed her Twitter posts it's worth subscribing to the RSS feed.
Peace & Love can now be heard on Spotify, the streaming service available in parts of Europe (UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Finland and Norway).
A handy tool for those of us who want to recommend the album to non-Juliana fans who use the service. Just suggest that if they like it they might want to buy the CD from Ye Olde. Although Spotify is legal there are doubts as to how much independent artists are compensated, and your site admin is a bit suspicious of the motives of a DRM / p2p service by stealth, and still prefers to 'own' music, rather than trusting a collection to the cloud. Maybe he's just old fashioned.
Juliana's new album Peace & Love is released today.
CD:
As expected distribution of the CD format appears to be very limited. Orders can still be placed directly on Juliana's official site but given the scarcity elsewhere on online stores you might want to get your order in now.
Juliana's patronage of the Puerto Rican Save A Sato dog rescue project is featured in her recent blog post and an article in Samaritan Magazine.
An example of Juliana's art. View this picture in higher res and a whole bunch more on Juliana's official blog.
This is one of four alternate cover art ideas designed by Jordyn Bonds originally considered for Peace & Love. See the other three alternates at Juliana's official blog.
"TV is not reality. Even reality TV is not reality. Cameras and microphones and lights trailing a person during a dramatic, difficult period of her life is not reality; it's something else. It's commerce. It's exploitation. It's entertainment."
Juliana discusses fame, loneliness and reality TV in her take on VH1's Celebrity Rehab show. Read the article at Stereogum.
There are some interesting views on Heidi Fleiss's appearance, not least as Fleiss is currently also 'starring' in the UK show Celebrity Big Brother.
"One thing I’ve noticed is that people who look good on TV often have either very small heads or very large ones.
I was standing behind a former MTV veejay in a coffee shop yesterday afternoon and he had a skull the size of a coconut."
After wiping the slate clean in July, Juliana is blogging again. Instead of themes based around her songs as before, her new one suggests just-like-the-rest-of-the-internet random bloggy irrelevance. Read more on 'Hello' at Juliana's official site.
...(but hopefully not) Forever.
The new homepage at julianahatfield.com"I always try to learn from painful experiences, and to forgive myself and others - and to move on, with an open heart and mind. At some point one realises that anger is a real waste of energy, it's draining and damaging, and one learns to deliberately let go of it, and the letting go brings a lightness, a new freedom and hopefulness that may unfortunately be hard to sustain at all times. Peace and love are ideals toward which we reach."
Juliana, on the title song from Peace & Love. Read her track by track comments on the whole album at the newly revamped official site.
Peace & Love pre-orders from Europe, Australia and Japan are now being taken at Juliana's site, priced at $12 plus $6.50 shipping. This is in addition to the North American (now clarified as USA and Canada) pre-orders announced last week. CDs will be in limited numbers available from Juliana's site and "a few other places".
Juliana Hatfield (photo: Jonathan Stark)
Pre-orders for Peace & Love are now being taken at Juliana's official site. The price for the CD is $12 plus $3.50 shipping in the USA and Canada. Overseas orders are not being taken at present.
Also, song clips of Dear Anonymous and Let's Go Home can now be heard on Juliana's MySpace site.
If you can't wait until February, amazon.com has preview audio clips of all tracks from Peace & Love. Also at amazon.co.uk
