Here we go again.

Juliana's forthcoming album of other people's songs is another fan funded affair. After the success of last year's There's Always Another Girl album, Juliana is again using PledgeMusic to organise the project.

She is offering her paintings, guitars and other miscellany as well as the music.

Juliana:

Also, a percentage of the money we raise will be donated to IMPACT Boston, which teaches self-defense and self-empowerment to people who really need it (I took a weekend self-defense course there a few years ago and it was really great and I was able to see with my own eyes how much it helped the women who were enrolled.) IMPACT offers scholarships for those who can’t afford the workshops.

The project has launched today. Head over to PledgeMusic to join in.

getting ready to start recording my covers album

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 19, 2012

Juliana has today confirmed on Twitter that her new album will be of cover versions.

She first pondered the project in July 2011 after finishing There's Always Another Girl, when she solicited suggestions from PledgeMusic subscribers.

More as and when...

UPDATE - MARCH 2
As expected, it's another pledge thing.

i'm going to be launching the new covers project at/through pledge music really soon--info coming later

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 2, 2012

Just kids twitpic.com/8kd4jy

— John P. Strohm (@johnpstrohm) February 15, 2012

Fans of Juliana's art might be interested to see some of the work she produced as a child. She's posted some examples today over at her official blog.

The vinyl / LP / actual proper old skool record version of There's Always Another Girl is now available from Juliana's official site.

Two songs from the download / CD version - Candy Wrappers and its alternate reprise And Again are not included due to size constraints.

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Juliana's Pony - Mikey Welsh, Juliana Hatfield, Zeph Courtney

The Boston Phoenix reports that Mikey Welsh has died at the age of 40.

Welsh played bass in Weezer from 1998 to 2001. Around the same period he was also Juliana's touring bassist. He performed on the recording of Bed and as the bassist in Juliana's Pony he contributued to Total System Failure, where he has four co-writing credits.

He left the music industry in 2001 and has since been an artist.

Juliana's 1993 album Become What You Are is the subject of this week's episode of Dig Me Out - a "weekly podcast dedicated to reviewing the lost and forgotten rock of the 90's".

You can listen or download at Dig Me Out or via iTunes.

The album is critiqued from the points of view of a listener revisiting after many years and of someone hearing much of it for the first time.

The first 15 minutes is little more than a Juliana biography so you can safely skip to the remaining half hour unless man reads wikipedia is your thing.

Three more reviews for you:

Mark Jenkins, Blurt Online:

The pretty-girl trap and bad-boy misbehavior are longtime Hatfield themes, but she's rarely delivered them with such directness and authority.

6/10

Tyler Kane, Paste Magazine:

...It’s moments like these that show Hatfield’s ability to take advantage of her own intentional, focused ideas and meld them with spontaneous moments of creative opportunity.

7.2/10

Some guy in the UK, Some Website:

The honor system had worked well since 2004, the $1,000 songs had sold, she'd succesfully auctioned her guitars. PledgeMusic was always going to work.

Ok the last one is from your humble webmaster, which doubles as the prestigious liveontomorrow review™ on this site's dedicated page for There's Always Another Girl, where all the reviews, links and other relevant info from these here news pages will be collated. More information than you could possibly ever need or want. That's how I roll.

The new album is now available for non-pledgers as a digital download in most territories.

Amazon mp3 UK

Amazon mp3 US

iTunes UK

iTunes US

The physical CD remains available to order at Juliana's official site.

Those who pledged on the vinyl version have been notified by Juliana of a delay until mid September (pledger only link) but they all have the download version.

So if you haven't heard There's Always Another Girl yet, your excuses are running out.

Q: Do you dance?

A: only alone. but yes. alone.

Another of the PledgeMusic 20 Questions has been made public. Read Juliana's responses to emailed questions raised by Foxopoly at Internet Poison.

If you missed the earlier posting of Juliana's 20 Question exchange with N'Awlins Contrarian you can read it as a pdf here.

Wow.

Just hours after the PledgeMusic download release of There's Always Another Girl, we now have some bonus demos too!

Released under the old skool Juliana honor system, 12 tracks are now available for download at Juliana's official site. Although some have been available before (at Juliana's site and PledgeMusic) there are some interesting new ones. They are released with the caveat:

Please understand/be forewarned that some of these demos 
are unfinished works in progress, especially lyrically.

With that in mind...

Download, Devour and Decide what to Donate.

The lyrics to There's Always Another Girl are now up at Juliana's official site.

The time has come people.

Coinciding with her birthday, Juliana's new album - There's Always Another Girl - is now available to download for PledgeMusic subscribers.

Audiophiles will note that the download is a 192 kbps mp3 affair.

Juliana says:

This has been a really interesting and illuminating and gratifying project and I can't thank you all enough for taking part. I hope to do it again soon.

This also means that the project is now closed. If you haven't pledged, you'll have to wait until Juliana makes the album available for general sale from August 30. (Update You can now pre-order at Juliana's official site.)

Download, Decompress and Devour.

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The new album cover is uncovered. Literally.

The new album, There's Always Another Girl will be available to download on July 27, 2011 for those of us who have made any of the pledges on the PledgeMusic project.

The vinyl mastering was completed last week, so the physical versions on CD and vinyl should follow shortly for those who picked them as their pledge.

The album remains on schedule as a CD release for non-pledgers on August 30.

The CD tracklist for the new album There's Always Another Girl as announced today by Juliana:

1. Change The World
2. Taxicab
3. Don’t Wanna Dance
4. There’s Always Another Girl
5. Candy Wrappers
6. Someone Else’s Problem
7. Sex And Drugs
8. Stray Kids
9. Failure
10. Vagabond
11. And Again
12. Batteries
13. Wasting Time
14. Thousands Of Guitars

This is updated from the list originally declared in May and, woohoo, with one more track.

Juliana has changed the title of her new album from Speeches Delivered To Animals And Plants to There's Always Another Girl.

"the new title is more succinct and makes sense, somehow, and goes really well with the artwork we are working on. also i was a bit concerned about the absolute legality of the former title as it was sort of borrowed from john irving’s “the world according to garp” (a great book)—it was (almost) the name of the book of poems that the tongueless character ellen james writes and never publishes."

She explains more in her latest PledgeMusic update.

Probably a wise decision on grounds of brevity alone. Even the original press release demoted the original title to "Speeches...", which it would inevitably have become known.

Juliana has also been pondering the track ordering so the previously announced tracklist was premature too.

There's Always Another Girl will be a familiar title to many of us, taken from what will now be the the album's title track. This song originally debuted on Myspace in April 2009 following Juliana tweeting her thoughts on Lindsay Lohan. This home demo version remains available on mp3 at Stereogum.