Juliana is auctioning more of her art right now on eBay.
Among the collection is this "Self-Portrait with Katy Perry's Body" - different from the portrait of the same title auctioned last summer.
There's also Liz Phair and Pamela Anderson as other subjects in this style.
The auction ends on July 11, 2015.
Troy Michael in an article for Innocent Words last month:
Heidi Lynne Gluck is now pursuing her solo career with her stunning debut 5-song EP ‘The Only Girl in the Room’ (Lotuspool Records). At its core, the five songs are based in roots rock with a bit of pop and country influence floating in between. Gluck’s voice is airy and captivating (think Aimee Mann) as they carry the songs. When Gluck set out to do a solo album, she took “solo” to a whole new level. She wrote all the songs and played all the instruments on the record, not to mention some of the production work.
“The intimidating parts were making the recordings sound like something. I have confidence as a player and writer, arranger and producer, but I don’t know a lot about engineering, nor do I have the patience to play with mic placement for an hour before recording a track. I was also a bit intimidated by playing drums. I don’t really know what I’m doing, and it was both a fun and maddening challenge.”
This is the first of a planned series of 4 EPs from Juliana's Some Girls colleague.
There's a further interview from earlier this week by Natalie Gallagher at The Pitch which expands on Heidi's songwriting partnership with Kenny Childers.
There's also a merch site with CDs and t-shirts: heidilynnegluck.bigcartel.com
If you want to get updates on the @blakebabies reissues and @PledgeMusic campaign, follow twitter and like the FB https://t.co/K27XVRrgSV
— John P. Strohm (@johnpstrohm) May 18, 2015
Auspicious first ever meeting of John and Juliana with Ben and Evan from The Lemonheads. First Blake Babies show winter, 1986.
Posted by the Blake Babies on Saturday, 16 May 2015
In case you've missed the announcements elsewhere, John P Strohm is currently going through the Blake Babies archives with a view to a reissue / rarity project via PledgeMusic in the future. There's been some interesting teasers of what might be to come on the Blake Babies Facebook page of late.
It's impossible for a band to announce an album any more without a deluge of pleas for vinyl. I mean, look at the responses to this tweet by Wolf Alice yesterday about iTunes pre-orders for their debut album.
So then, in response to similar demand, American Laundromat Records are now taking orders for JH3's Whatever, My Love on LP, with a choice of colours. Shipping is estimated for August 2015 and there's an as yet unspecified bonus track involved.
Update March 22 The release date is August 17, 2015 and the bonus track is Only In The Dark - previously heard as a home demo during the 2013 PledgeMusic campaign for Wild Animals.
Important to note that ALR say pressing will be limited to these pre-orders.
Update June 8 The release date has been put back to 'early November, 2015' due to the processing plant running over capacity.
Facebookers, Twitterers and Instagrammers will have noted that Juliana's official channels have shared photos of the tour merch in recent days:
The new Juliana Hatfield Three album is now available to stream for Spotify users.
As previously announced it is available on CD from American Laundromat Records and on download from iTunes.
There may be other formats to come:
contemplating a possible vinyl release of "Whatever, My Love" sometime in the no-tsod-ista-nt future
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 24, 2015
Today!
Whatever, My Love - the new album from The Juliana Hatfield Three - the kind of follow up to 1993's Become What You Are - is released today on American Laundromat Records.
If you weren't part of the PledgeMusic gang who received the album last week you should be able to find it from your retailer of choice, direct from American Laundromat and as a download on your iTunes in most territories.
American Laundromat are currently streaming the whole thing too.
The Boston Globe have reviewed the record today, not altogether favourably. Juliana has had her say on what they said:
And, because we're all 2015 now, here's a video review by The Daily Guru:
There will be a liveontomorrow.co.uk review ™ in due course, but not just yet. I want to give it several more listens.
From Juliana's official site:
Juliana’s 2011 14-song album “There’s Always Another Girl” is about to be back in stock! You can pre-order it here now for the bargain price of $8.00, plus shipping/handling. Please note that there are separate shipping/handling prices and “buy-now” buttons for North American and overseas orders.
Pre-orders: julianahatfield.com/taag.htm
Related: this site's track by track review from 2011.
The forthcoming album from the reunited Juliana Hatfield Three will be titled Whatever, My Love.
Loving the deference to the 1993 artwork.
We have a scheduled release date of February 17, 2015.
Perhaps a little unexpectedly (given Juliana's run of solo self-released albums), the band are signed to American Laundromat Records, who now have the album listed:
The twelve songs on "Whatever, My Love" are unsentimental, funny, and honest. Hatfield, humble as always, acknowledges that, "We haven’t totally reinvented the wheel or anything" with this new album and that the recordings exhibit "stuff I am sort of known for, I guess": a guitar-centric melodicism, and lyrical examinations of emotional confusion. "But I am a lot more confident now than I was then with the first album. And I had more fun recording this one."
Hatfield’s songs’ subjects still don’t know why people are the way they are. But the music is fresh and inspired, gorgeous and punk, sleazy and sweet; fully present and alive. With their new album, the Juliana Hatfield Three has in a sense responded to its former directive to "become what you are" by making an album that is exactly what it wants to be, identifiable in its acceptance--and celebration--of the unknowable and unsolvable.
American Laundromat are now taking pre-orders which include bundle options for buttons, a decal and a t-shirt.
The shirt is a different design to that offered by Juliana through PledgeMusic and is available unbundled from the CD for $24 plus postage.
The tracklist:
A sad face emoji for the moment you realise that Blame The Stylist and Wood appear to be the only previously unheard songs here.
The following have been heard in some form before:
1,2,3,5,7 - first released during Juliana's Download Experiment in 2004-2005
4 - from Sittin' In A Tree..., a 2007 EP recorded with Frank Smith
6,8,12 - from Wild Animals, a 2013 solo acoustic album
10 - from Get There, a 2013 Minor Alps Album
They are all new recordings though and let's not forget that the involvement of Tom Beaujour in the studio with Minor Alps helped transform June 6th to Away Again last year.
Also, February isn't far off now is it? Good times ahead.
God's Foot, as most of us know all too well, is the mid 90s album that has never been released. Many fans suspect it may be Juliana's masterpiece. You can read more about it here.
Today, we got perhaps the next best thing to your actual mastered studio mixes. Juliana has released some demos from the era, available as an exclusive on PledgeMusic as part of the Juliana Hatfield Three reunion project. Surely we've all bought this one, yes?
The tracks as originally labelled back in the day:
Of the release Juliana says:
the recordings were taken from an old cassette--the only version of these recordings that i have. so the sound quality is going to be possibly very slightly unlike status quo to ears that are used to, like taylor swift..or digital high resolution everything..the songs were recorded onto 2-inch reel-to-reel tape and then most likely transferred to half-inch tape and then transferred onto a cassette for my listening pleasure and then that cassette ended up in the basement sitting in a paper bag full of cassettes and then years later (circa now) the cassette was transferred onto a CD. and then this will be converted to mP3’s..it is by no means a sonic disaster..it sounds great and fine to me. but i am a caveman. and i know there are some serious audiophiles out there and they might notice something sounds a little off..but i don’t, really. and the demo versions of the songs are really cool… and some are quite different than what ended up on the album that never came out.
there are 11 songs..there were some different songs that ended up being considered for the album but either we did not demo every single song, or there are some that just cannot be found. although i never finalized an official version and sequence of the album, some of you have heard versions of what people who made the songs available (not me) were calling “god’s foot”. but, again, i never sanctioned the song choices. since i knew the album was not ever scheduled for release, i never needed to finalize the song choices or mixes or the sequence. i am telling you this so that no one is disappointed that a few songs you might’ve been expecting to be part of the GF demos will not be there. for example, “perfection” is not included in the demos. i don’t remember doing a demo for that one. maybe it exists somewhere, but i can’t find it. so that one is not in the list of GF demos…
These near 20 year old demos are sacred artefacts to this Juliana fan and I'm so pleased she's released them.
The 2014 reformation of the JH3 is a massive deal but given what we know so far about what's to come, I'll admit to being more excited to hear early versions of these GF songs than, say, a reworked 'If Only We Were Dogs'.
There are songs here that I've wanted to write about for years but have been reticent given the circumstances. Maybe now is the time for a kinda sorta God's Foot review. I'll give these tracks a good number of listens first anyway.
Big day.
Exclamation mark in post title! Big news!
On the same freaking day that David Lynch announced the return of Twin Peaks, Juliana confirmed the reformation of The Juliana Hatfield Three. It was all a bit much for those of us old enough to remember the early 90s.
I am kind of excited to announce that the Juliana Hatfield Three has reformed to make a new album--our second, after "Become What You Are"
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) October 6, 2014
Last year Juliana mooted the possibility of playing some 'Become What You Are' shows and continued to talk about it during the recent Minor Alps European tour. That she's reforming the band (with Dean Fisher and Todd Philips) and recording new music is even better news. The new album, the second to be released under the JH3 moniker over 21 years later, will be a fan funded thing.
The project is now
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Juliana:
Todd, Dean, and I have just begun recording with the lovely and talented Tom Beaujour (who worked with me and Matthew [Caws] on the Minor Alps album) at the Nuthouse in Hoboken, New Jersey, and so far it is going great. Some of you may have previously heard some version of some of the songs we are working on. For example, one of the songs we are exploring is “If I Could”. We have always loved this song but there have only ever been demos of it; it has never been properly finished or produced. There are multiple attempted versions of it but the nut has never been quite cracked, and this has always sort of haunted me. Now I feel like I finally have the chance to get it right with Todd and Dean. We are also exploring electricized band versions of a couple of the punchier acoustic home-recorded songs from my last album, “Wild Animals”. And there will be some other surprises.
Things of note in the Pledge exclusives:
VIP tour soundcheck passes (for US dates to be confirmed circa March 2015)
God's Foot demos!
Skype guitar lessons
Juliana's Cream SG
There's plenty of other stuff including artwork, clothing and instruments.
Also, Juliana's on-off 'it's complicated' relationship with Facebook appears to be back on. There's now a Juliana Hatfield Three page, together with her reactivated official page.
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UPDATE November 9, 2014 - The project is now 100% funded.
i'm getting the old band back together
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) September 29, 2014
JH3/2
— Todd A. Philips (@taphilips) September 28, 2014
More Blake Babies related news then. Following her live appearance in Chicago back in May, Freda's band are now back in business, recording new songs with possible live shows in 2015.
Thanks to Carlos for the info.
This is the official twitter for the Blake Babies! @johnpstrohm @julianahatfield @jaycoyle @staceesledge @fredalovesmith
— Blake Babies (@blakebabies) August 23, 2014
We'll be posting updates on some projects we're planning. We have no present plans to play shows or make new music, sorry!
— Blake Babies (@blakebabies) August 23, 2014
A Blake Babies official Twitter account launched today. Hopefully it might lead to us hearing some of this:
Some relics here...working on a potential compilation of stuff nobody has ever heard before!
A photo posted by @johnpstrohm on
gotta move out of my apt. into a smaller space & so i'm going to unload a bunch of my paintings on ebay starting tonight to help clear out
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 10, 2014
Self-Portrait With Katy Perry's Body pic.twitter.com/CZLJWRI5rb
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 10, 2014
12 of Juliana's paintings are now for sale on eBay.
UPDATE - Aug 19, 2014 MOAR:
there are a few new paintings and a drawing of mine up for auction here: http://t.co/2vBxOfxzCi
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 19, 2014
UPDATE - July 1, 2015 - there's another auction with a further Katy Perry piece.
Juliana has covered Elliott Smith's 'Needle In The Hay' for a forthcoming Wes Anderson tribute album.
'I Saved Latin!' also features contributions from Kristin Hersh and Trespassers William and is due for release in the US by American Laundromat Records on May 13, 2014.
The label's homepage currently has all sorts of extravagant pre-order options.
Matthew Caws:
We might do more, but Nada Surf is my priority. [Minor Alps] was a special treat because this is [Nada Surf's] first real break in 20 years.
In an interview with Rip It Up, Matthew confirms that he views his work with Juliana as a side project.
Although there may be more to come from Minor Alps, he says that work with Nada Surf will recommence in early 2014.
Fans of shitty ruined photography cool filters may wish to note that Juliana is now on Instagram.
