A photo of Freda, Juliana and Peter Wolf taken at last Friday's promotion event for Freda's book, via Twitter.
There's another photo at The Boston Globe.
From last week in Chicago, Freda & Robbie Fulks playing a Blake Babies track. There's more from the show at hmc1410's YouTube page.
Also, from earlier this month here's a brief WCIU-TV interview with Freda as part of her book promotion:
thanks to Carlos for the info here
Juliana is selling "small number of customized (ink-embellished) Polaroid self portraits onto canvas" via her website.
There are 12 designs to choose from, available for $100 USD each including postage.
Check them out at Juliana's official site.
Brad Walsh:
My strongest songwriting influences have always been female, and I was lucky enough to be able to work on this EP with some of the artists I idolized growing up. To be able to guide a rock legend like Juliana Hatfield into the realm of dance music, to have her hear what was done and respond with marvel, was a dream come true for me.
The PopCrush post also has a quote from Juliana about 'Easy'.
There's a new band in town.
They're called The I Don't Cares.
Juliana Hatfield is in it.
Paul Westerberg is in it.
There's a single.
It's called 1/2 2 P.
You can buy it at Nimbit Music.
You can buy it at iTunes or stream on Apple Music in the US & UK and no doubt elsewhere.
It's on Spotify.
It's on Rdio.
It's from an album called Wild Stab.
Wild Stab is "coming soon".
There you go.
For those of us who missed the shows or didn't pick up merch at the time, Juliana's official site is selling T-shirts from the JH3 US shows earlier this year.
There are two designs to choose from and the sale is 'for a limited time'.
Hilken Mancini, writing for Boston Herald's Boston 101 Guestlisted series:
I first saw Juliana Hatfield play at T.T. the Bears in the Blake Babies -- it must have been 1989. They had two nights back-to-back there and the first night she was playing guitar and the next night she was playing bass: same set, same songs. Right then and there I decided she was a totally badass. I could barely play guitar at that point in my life and I was totally blown away.
Hilken goes on to discuss how Juliana and others were influential in the formation of her bands plus an appreciation of Trying Not To Think About It.
It's all eBay news round here.
American Laundromat Records are auctioning a test pressing of the forthcoming vinyl version of the Juliana Hatfield Three LP:
Only four "Whatever, My Love" test pressings were cut. We gave one to our mastering engineer and kept one for our archive. This is one of two we're offering on eBay to the highest bidder. Ships in it's white paper sleeve. Good luck!!!
Bidding ends tomorrow (July 8) with shipping estimated for next week.
Regular orders for the LP are not due to ship until November 2015 (delayed from the original plan of August).
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
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:
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:
- Invisible
- Now That I Have Found You
- Ordinary Guy
- If Only We Were Dogs
- I'm Shy
- Dog On A Chain
- If I Could
- Push Pin
- Blame The Stylist
- I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands
- Wood
- Parking Lots
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.