Part 2 of an audio interview, titled "Juliana Hatfield On Vocals, Recording, And Musical Education Of The Higher Sort", is now available to listen at Gearwire.
If you missed Part 1, it's here.
"Every time, I write a song about a break-up, I can’t believe I’m writing about it again. It’s like shut up already. But I think it’s a universal experience and it never gets old."
Juliana talks about Peace & Love, her career and voice, and names her price for a Blake Babies reunion in a Q&A interview at Hear/Say.
Thanks to Allison for sharing this link.
"I don't know what happened with the guitar solo in 'What Is Wrong', I just sort of plugged in and in about three seconds got a kind of nasty sound happening. I pressed 'record' and this gnarly blast fell out. Listening back, I was very amused with myself."
Read more comments from Juliana in a feature on Groupee.
"When CDs came out I thought they sounded like crap. And now, I think MP3s sound like crap and MP3s make CDs sound better."
Read Juliana's thoughts on music technology, the crappiness of mp3, why Twitter is a distraction and her future book writing projects in a nice interview at Sounds Good Ink.
“The music business is so complicated. I want a really simple life. …The theme of the past few years [has been] a process of reclaiming my freedom and independence and being totally self sufficient.”
"my lack of technical expertise is, I think, an aesthetic of sorts"
Juliana talks about the recording process of Peace & Love in an interview with Patrick Ogle for Gearwire. Listen to it at gearwire.com.
It looks like there's more to come as according to Patrick's twitter post this is Part 1.
Update on 2010-03-31 20:47 by Craig
Part 2 is now available at Gearwire.
“I needed some calm because the year was very turbulent. The easiest way for me to feel calm was to be alone. I couldn’t handle the idea of going into a big studio with a bunch of people. I just wanted to stay home and make this very personal and quiet record.”
Some quotes from Juliana on Peace & Love, her withdrawal from social media and more in an article at The Patriot Ledger.
You can read a review of Peace & Love and listen to a phone interview with Juliana at The University of San Diego Student Radio.
A word of warning - there is a loud extended burst of white noise at the end of the interview. Turn it off after Juliana says goodbye 25 minutes in if you value your ears.
The final batch of guest posts from Juliana's stint as guest editor of magnetmagazine.com:
Ben & Jerry's Everything But The... Ice Cream
Referring To Everything As "This Guy"
"Jung also reinforced my instinctive belief that exploring my emotional problems through creativity/art is an extremely worthwhile pursuit not just for me but for anyone struggling with identity problems. Or any problems, really."
"When I’m skiing and I see a bump coming up in my path, I get all excited like when an alcoholic sees a bottle of booze."
More Magnet guest posts:
"I bounce around my apartment singing, “She’s a real sad tomato/She’s a busted valentine,” and feeling really good about life."
The Magnet guest editing continues with Juliana's comments on the song 'And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine'.
"My newfound love for The Rockford Files (and for RTV in general) is partly nostalgia (for my childhood, for the ’70s), but part of it is the fact that Jim Rockford, the self-employed private detective (“$200 a day, plus expenses”), is such a great creation. I love that he lives in a run-down trailer in the parking lot of a restaurant by the ocean in Malibu."
As part of her guest editing of magnetmagazine.com, Juliana has now shared her thoughts on The Rockford Files, animal prints, and, as you do, the 'Puppy Bowl'.
"I never decided to become a singer. Singing was just something I always did. From the time I could make noise come out of my mouth, I was singing. I made up songs in the car when I was three or four years old. My mother always told me I used to make up songs about the scenery we were passing by. And I’d sit in the back seat and sing."
Quote taken from a Q & A with Juliana Hatfield posted today on magnetmagazine.com, which Juliana is guest editing this week.
"When you can accept limitations, you stop fighting them. I think that is what the record is about."
Read more about the new album's themes, the recording process and Juliana's plans to retreat from music and touring in an extended Q & A at Boston Magazine.
"I really have these dreams of secluding myself in a monastery for years and being silent and eating brown rice and doing nothing else. That appeals to me that life. I just read “Eat, Pray, Love” that Ashram sounds so great to me.You probably would miss some of the world. Probably a nice new bag can make me happy. If I wasn’t developing this lust for nice things, I never had that lust. I find myself wanting to get a fat chunky gold ring. I don’t have any nice jewelry. I want that but at the same time I want to be a monk. "
More on the new album, Lindsay Lohan, blogs, books and Juliana's new found love of Twitter in an interview with Amy Shuster for Pop-Rock Candy Mountain.
“You can be more efficient as an artist today, you don’t need a studio, but ... it takes away some of the mystique and excitement of putting a record out.”
Juliana on reported plans for the new (and seemingly confirmed as acoustic) album, a new non-fiction book, a novel and painting projects in an article in Falls Church News Press.
Other recent interviews at 30 Days Out and, in German, at satt.org
“I make music because I’m compelled to make music, and I don’t know why. It’s just something I’m born with. I do find it hard to communicate in everyday life, and music has always been a way for me to communicate with people — much easier than talking.”
Juliana interviewed by The Duxbury Reporter ahead of her appearance at the Duxbury Free Library on 22 February.
The Highway Girl interviewed Juliana at the Cafe Du Nord show in San Francisco in September. The video also includes clips from Live at Lime.