Low Times Podcast:

Maggie Serota sits down with entertainment lawyer John P. Strohm to chat about his roots in the Boston music scene of the late 80s, founding The Blake Babies with ex-girlfriend Freda Love and Juliana Hatfield and playing in The Lemonheads with Evan Dando. He also discusses the shift from trying to eke out a living as an indie musician to becoming an attorney specializing in working with artists.

It's a very good interview and well worth a listen for any Blake Babies / Juliana fan.

You can hear it via the episode page at Low Times.

John's interview is the last section of the episode and begins after the 1 hour 4 minute mark.

rock and roll! twitter.com/julianahatfiel…

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 10, 2013

For those who don't follow Juliana on Twitter, she posted the above tweet earlier this month, plus others from the studio in New Jersey, where she continues to work with Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.

No further news has emerged on this project which doesn't seem to be following the fan funded route so far.

The two have worked together before of course. They've guested on each other's albums and Nada Surf's Fruit Fly featured on Juliana's eponymous covers album last year.

been making big plans with matthew caws twitter.com/julianahatfiel…

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 31, 2013

blake babies "epilogue" --our very last record release/ep---is out now --available for the first time for your digital downloading pleasure

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) December 11, 2012

'Epilogue' - the last Blake Babies release from 2002, is now widely available for the first time from today via most digital outlets including iTunes and Spotify.

The EP was originally available in limited numbers on CD and sold principally at the final Blake Babies live shows in the US.

It features 3 covers (Fleetwood Mac's 'Walk A Thin Line', MC5's 'Shakin' Street' and The Ramones' 'I Wanna Be Sedated'), a remix of 'Nothing Ever Happens', and an original Hatfield / Strohm composition - 'My Motor'. It's not automatic. You've got to work that stick.

'Epilogue' was the first release on Juliana's Ye Olde Records label. A handful of remaining cds found at Ye Olde HQ were sold by Juliana at $200 each as part of her first PledgeMusic project in 2011.

It's a bit cheaper now.

i am no longer able to do the lemonheads shows..please accept my sincere apologies..i wish it could be..

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) October 2, 2012

i hate to have to say this but due to unforeseen circumstances i won't be able to join the lemonheads on bass this month as planned.sosorry

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) October 2, 2012

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Juliana Hatfield, aka The Covers Album is now on general release.

The album is available on cd from julianahatfield.com and digitally at iTunes and Spotify with other digital services expected to follow.

Juliana has announced that she will be closing the PledgeMusic project for the covers album tomorrow (Friday 31 August 2012).

There's a handful of artwork and posters still available so if you want them you'd better be quick.

@phizlair so glad you don't hate it! thanks!

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 11, 2012

For those of you with Spotify, here are the songs from Juliana's new Juliana Hatfield album aka The Covers Album, by all the original artists*:

*apart from Led Zepagain. Also, 'Ready For Love' was originally a Mott The Hoople song, but Juliana has referenced the subsequent Bad Company version.

This was created for Spotify in the UK but hopefully most if not all songs are licensed in other regions.

In varying quality, here are the original artists performing the songs which make up Juliana's new eponymous covers album:

Teenage Fanclub - Cells

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Bad Company - Ready For Love (original by Mott The Hoople)

I Blame Coco - Selfmachine

Nada Surf - Fruit Fly

Pete Yorn - Closet

Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Is The Night

Ryan Adams - Do I Wait

Liz Phair - Friend Of Mine

The Who - My Wife

Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

Here we go.

Juliana's new album of covers - the oddly titled Juliana Hatfield, is now available as a download for PledgeMusic subscribers ahead of the global release, which remains scheduled for August 28, 2012.

This site hasn't published the artwork, title and track list before now because Juliana has wanted, in her olde worldy ye olde records style, to keep it a secret.

Although some of the arrangements will come as a surprise the chosen songs are pretty much in line with what she has posted to PledgeMusic / Twitter and the live shows in June.

1. Cells
2. Learn To Fly
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. Ready For Love
5. Selfmachine
6. Fruit Fly
7. Closet
8. Sweet Is The Night
9. Do I Wait
10. Friend Of Mine*
11. My Wife*
12. Rock And Roll

*omitted from the vinyl version.

What are you waiting for? Allez. Avante. Now.

Juliana's 2011 album There's Always Another Girl is available again on CD at julianahatfield.com.

Check my new avatar - courtesy of the gifted @julianahatfield!

— John P. Strohm (@johnpstrohm) May 31, 2012

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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.

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.

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

— Peter Adams (@SLightFLight) April 14, 2012

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