Juliana's opening song from the City Winery show last night in New York.
Video via spiketop.
Last night's set list from the City Winery in New York, where Juliana shared the bill with Jesse Malin:
- Taxicab
- Candy Wrappers
- Ride With Me (Lemonheads)
- Dear Anonymous
- I Picked You Up
- Wasting Time
- It Never Rains In Southern California (Albert Hammond)
- Hole In The Sky
- Vagabond
- Failure
- Slow Motion
- I Won't Let You Go
- There's Always Another Girl
- The Fact Remains
- My Sister
Thanks to spiketop for sharing this via
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You can read this review by Jonathan Perry at the Boston Globe.
A couple of other reviews are also online. A gushing blog review at A Momentary Lapse, With Joel:
Juliana has written a song full of truth. 'There's Always Another Girl' will leave an impression on you and you'll want to go back and re-listen to make sure you heard every word she uttered. "Don't you love it when a beautiful woman self destructs?"
And a not quite so gushing review from Austin Trunick at Consequence Of Sound:
Nothing says open mic night more than singing lyrics such as “The batteries are dead/Totally, completely dead [...] Completely fucking dead.” It’s bad enough to recall another buried mid-’90s memory: Phoebe Buffay’s agitating coffeehouse performances on Friends.
2/5
The liveontomorrow review is now imminent. That's the one you're all waiting for of course.
Let the reviews commence...
this album is the perfect blend of everything that Juliana already does best, while amping up the melodies, harmonies and moods to degrees that even some of her most ardent followers probably couldn’t have predicted.
Marc With A C, The Real Congregation
Having made her name producing sardonic jangle-pop tunes with sometimes uncomfortably honest lyrics, Hatfield has wisely gone back to those roots for There’s Always Another Girl. Recapturing the golden-age of ’90s female-fronted indie, the album feels startlingly retro at times.
7/10
Terry Mulcahy, wears the trousers magazine
The innocent voice may be a little raspier with age, and the heart may be a little more ragged and roughed up by experience, but the soul of Juliana Hatfield remains strong.
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.
On the eve of releasing of There’s Always Another Girl, Juliana is already talking about her next album.
In her latest PledgeMusic update she moots the idea of a collection of cover versions.
Having invited suggestions it comes as no surprise to see a plethora of tracks in the comments. Music fans will take any opportunity to list some songs. It's in our DNA.
There are some really good choices there and some super duper great fab choices too - enough to fill several albums.
Given the success of the current project, it would seem almost certain that if pursued this would be another PledgeMusic thing.
Juliana has a history of some inspired covers. In recent times these have been largely home acoustic recordings.
For those who have missed this year's covers they have included Albert Hammond's It Never Rains In Southern California and Jessie J's Price Tag (both Juliana's choices), Neil Young's Barstool Blues and New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle (both fan choices), and for band with electric guitar fans she has performed Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl with Evan Dando.
Another new song and this time it's a preview from the now imminent new album.
Stray Kids is track 8 from There's Always Another Girl and can be heard / downloaded at Stereogum.
In her PledgeMusic update yesterday Juliana said:
if you do hear the sneak peek don’t go thinking that the whole album will sound just like that, okay? not that i don’t love the song—i have a special place in my heart for the song.....it has been around me for a while, in different forms.
A spotters badge for anyone who has recognised one of those different forms as Bringing You Down Again - one of the 2009 honor downloads.
Saturday, August 27 at the Brighton Music Hall, Boston.
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.
A mighty liveontomorrow.co.uk gold star is awarded to the PledgeMusic pledgetastic™ pledger who chose New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle as a song for Juliana to cover. One of the all time greats.
Visit Juliana's latest PledgeMusic update to hear her acoustic take on the track.
New Song alert. Juliana's cover of Neil Young's Barstool Blues is available to listen at PledgeMusic.
This results from one of the 'record a song of your choice' pledges.
If you have Spotify (which as of today includes those of you in the US), you can listen to Neil Young performing the song live.
The CD tracklist for the new album There's Always Another Girl as announced today by Juliana:
- Change The World
- Taxicab
- Don’t Wanna Dance
- There’s Always Another Girl
- Candy Wrappers
- Someone Else’s Problem
- Sex And Drugs
- Stray Kids
- Failure
- Vagabond
- And Again
- Batteries
- Wasting Time
- 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.
An addendum to last week's post on the Juliana & Evan show in Toronto with the above clip of My Drug Buddy.
There's also a nice set of photos in a review at Lithium Magazine and if you were in the crowd you might spot yourself in another fine set posted at Flickr.