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UK based pop group Picturebox have this week released a new song titled Juliana Hatfield.

Picturebox:

This is about the thrill of hearing something great on the radio for the first time, trying to find out who it's by and get hold of it in the pre-Internet days. Also saying how great it is when someone you like keeps making great music after such a long time!

Gotta be loving the picture of the cassette.

You can listen to the song below and download (with optional contribution) at bandcamp.

<a href="http://picturebox.bandcamp.com/track/juliana-hatfield">Juliana Hatfield by Picturebox</a>

Another excerpt from the 1971 "Homewood Sessions" featuring Leon Russell and a few good friends such as Don Nix and Furry Lewis. Furry can be seen several times throughout the video. This song is, in many people's opinion, one of the finest ballads ever written. I agree!

New pledges have been added to Juliana's Covers Album project at PledgeMusic since the launch earlier this month, including the return of the 20 questions by email thing which she did last year.

Today, she's brought back the offer of a personalised song, which you'll recall was a fundraiser of sorts she did in 2010 before the original PledgeMusic project.

Juliana:

I will write you a personal song! I’ll create an original song exclusively for you, to you, about you... [] ...Think of it as a commissioned sonic portrait. I will send you an mP3 and a CD of your song and will never release it to the public.

This offer is available now for up to 3 potential pledgers for, ahem, $1,000.

But you all know this anyway because you're all pledgers, right?

Thanks to Robert Shell of JBTV for letting us know that Juliana's solo acoustic TV performance is back online.

Dating back to early 1993 (post Hey Babe and pre Become What You Are), the videos can now be viewed again at JBTV Online, featuring a snippet of Start Choppin (Dinosaur Jr), plus full versions of He’d Be A Diamond(The Bevis Frond), My Sister, Ugly, It’s A Shame About Ray(The Lemonheads) and Supermodel.

https://www.facebook.com/nicdaltondoco https://www.twitter.com/nicdaltondoco 'If It's Catchy, It Means You Stole It' is a feature documentary on Sydney musician/independent record label boss Nic Dalton. Dalton has played in over 65 bands (and counting!), most notably Boston's The Lemonheads during the peak of the "alternative" movement in the early 1990's. Dalton co-founded independent record label 'Half A Cow' with Miles Ferguson in 1990, which has gone on to release over 150 titles in it's 22 year history. Interviews with key figures in the Dalton/HAC story will be interwoven with animation, rare unseen footage and performances. Featuring sound and vision by Art Of Fighting, Booster Valves, Craven Fops, Crow, The Daisygrinders, Dog Trumpet, Fuzzy, Godstar, Bernie Hayes, Hippy Dribble, The Lemonheads, Love Positions, The MoMos, Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers, The Orange Humble Band, Kim Salmon, Plunderers, Sidewinder, Smudge, Sneeze, Spdfgh, Swirl, The Triangles, 2 Litre Dolby and more!

While we're in a pledgy, kickstarty, fundy mood, there's this from filmmaker Jarrad Kennedy:

'If It's Catchy, It Means You Stole It' is a feature documentary on Sydney musician/independent record label boss Nic Dalton. Dalton has played in over 65 bands (and counting!), most notably Boston's The Lemonheads during the peak of the grunge movement in the early 1990's.

... Interviews with key figures in the Dalton/HAC story will be interwoven with animation, rare unseen footage and performances.

... Funds generated will be used to cover equipment hire, film transfer, legal clearances and mastering.

We aim to have the film completed by July 2012 to submit for the Boston Film Festival in September.

You can get involved in the project at Pozible.

Juliana is mentioned in the trailer's credits.

In the 90's she performed one of Dalton's songs - Love Went Away - under the pseudonym of Kelly Wilson.

Love Went Away

hat tip to Carlos for the info

Here we go again.

Juliana's forthcoming album of other people's songs is another fan funded affair. After the success of last year's There's Always Another Girl album, Juliana is again using PledgeMusic to organise the project.

She is offering her paintings, guitars and other miscellany as well as the music.

Juliana:

Also, a percentage of the money we raise will be donated to IMPACT Boston, which teaches self-defense and self-empowerment to people who really need it (I took a weekend self-defense course there a few years ago and it was really great and I was able to see with my own eyes how much it helped the women who were enrolled.) IMPACT offers scholarships for those who can’t afford the workshops.

The project has launched today. Head over to PledgeMusic to join in.

getting ready to start recording my covers album

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 19, 2012

Juliana has today confirmed on Twitter that her new album will be of cover versions.

She first pondered the project in July 2011 after finishing There's Always Another Girl, when she solicited suggestions from PledgeMusic subscribers.

More as and when...

UPDATE - MARCH 2
As expected, it's another pledge thing.

i'm going to be launching the new covers project at/through pledge music really soon--info coming later

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 2, 2012

Just kids twitpic.com/8kd4jy

— John P. Strohm (@johnpstrohm) February 15, 2012

Luscious Jackson are returning with a PledgeMusic project.

In an interview with Rolling Stone where you can hear their first new song in a decade, singer / bassist Jill Cunniff cites the success of Juliana's There's Always Another Girl project as an inspiration.

Cunniff:

Juliana Hatfield was really great, and she was sort of our generation and she did a pledge drive and did really well with it. She was really active with it and did a lot of updating and that's what we're going to do.

UPDATE

The LJ PledgeMusic page is now live.

This was Juliana Hatfield's third appearance on 89.1 WFDU fm's "That Modern Rock Show" hosted by Ghosty and originally aired on 9/10/2011. Topics discussed include Juliana's latest album "There's Always Another Girl" and classic Hollywood films.

Well this passed us by.

Thanks to Ghosty of WFDU's That Modern Rock Show, we can now hear his interview with Juliana which originally aired back in September.

Given the almost non-existent promotion for There's Always Another Girl this is a rare opportunity to hear Juliana talk about the record, the origins of the PledgeMusic project, and 90's nostalgia.

Juliana:

If I could afford to, I would just paint for the foreseeable future. It’s the way I saw music before. I only wanted to do that. Now I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who’s been a musician. It’s weird, no one even knows I’m doing this school. None of my quote unquote fans knows that I’m in school. I haven’t really told anyone.

Juliana is interviewed by Middle Mojo - a site focusing on "what happens when creative people get older and older people get creative."

Juliana goes on to indicate that the proceeds from There's Always Another Girl were intended, in part, to fund art school.

The interview also covers why she has previously found it difficult to fulfil her wish to quit performing live, and how her art is proving a different form of expression to her music:

It’s going to be interesting to see. I am starting to see some of the themes from my music in some of my paintings. It’s not really planned, it’s just sort of happening. Look at my past few album covers. It’s naked parts of my body. And I’m painting stuff like that. Body parts with no heads. Fake boobs. I’ve always had these issues with my identity, anxiety about my femininity. I never felt I really expressed it the way I wanted to with music. This is just another way to work through some of the issues I have.

The music side isn't being neglected though. If you've been following Juliana on Twitter in recent days she has, amongst other topics such as complaining about her Wikipedia image (now changed), indicated that new tunes are forthcoming:

that was too many tweets& i'm sorry& & i have to get back to work now but THANK YOU ALL for EMO & TECH SUPPORT and new album coming soon

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 8, 2012

A couple of album reviews that emerged towards the end of last year that you may have missed:

Katie Caroll, mxdwn.com:

There’s Always Another Girl is hit and miss; it tries to bring together the many incarnations of Juliana Hatfield’s impressive career.

Steve Smart, Rabbit Hole Urban Music:

She's the kind of artist you can get very attached to over the years. I know I have - 5/5

Fans of Juliana's art might be interested to see some of the work she produced as a child. She's posted some examples today over at her official blog.

The vinyl / LP / actual proper old skool record version of There's Always Another Girl is now available from Juliana's official site.

Two songs from the download / CD version - Candy Wrappers and its alternate reprise And Again are not included due to size constraints.

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Juliana's Pony - Mikey Welsh, Juliana Hatfield, Zeph Courtney

The Boston Phoenix reports that Mikey Welsh has died at the age of 40.

Welsh played bass in Weezer from 1998 to 2001. Around the same period he was also Juliana's touring bassist. He performed on the recording of Bed and as the bassist in Juliana's Pony he contributued to Total System Failure, where he has four co-writing credits.

He left the music industry in 2001 and has since been an artist.

Three more:

Adrienne Urbanski, Short and Sweet NYC:

There’s Always Another Girl doesn’t pack the same emotional punch that How to Walk Away did but it’s a gem nonetheless.

Ania Roginska, MVRemix:

I left wanting at least one crack at a track where the instrumentals were the rusted gears, pushed through by Hatfields well oiled smooth sound.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic:

a continuation of the excellent, mature work she’s done in the new millennium.

4/5

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How rare. A Juliana remix.

Don't Wanna Dance (Brad Walsh remix) has been created for use as runway music for Christian Siriano at New York Fashion Week.

You may recall that Brad Walsh took some excellent photos of Juliana after a book reading in 2008.

If you haven't already nabbed the track at PledgeMusic you can download from this direct link to the mp3:

http://www.bradwalsh.com/audio/JulianaHatfield-DontWannaDance-BradWalshRemix.mp3

If you're curious, you can listen to Brad's remix of 'She's A Blast' by The Beautiful Bodies (from the same EP) at SoundCloud.

a couple of notes for any Brits reading this:

1 'runway' means 'catwalk'.

2 sadly it's not that Brad Walsh

On this week's Cityscape singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield talks with George Bodarky about a song she penned called "Hole in the Sky." Listen to Cityscape Saturday mornings at 7:30a.m on 90.7FM and wfuv.org

Juliana has spoken to WFUV's George Bodarky about 9/11 in relation to her 2005 song Hole In The Sky.

The show will be broadcast on the NY station's Cityscape show tomorrow (Saturday, September 10) at 0730 EDT.

Juliana's 1993 album Become What You Are is the subject of this week's episode of Dig Me Out - a "weekly podcast dedicated to reviewing the lost and forgotten rock of the 90's".

You can listen or download at Dig Me Out or via iTunes.

The album is critiqued from the points of view of a listener revisiting after many years and of someone hearing much of it for the first time.

The first 15 minutes is little more than a Juliana biography so you can safely skip to the remaining half hour unless man reads wikipedia is your thing.