Here we go.

Juliana's new album of covers - the oddly titled Juliana Hatfield, is now available as a download for PledgeMusic subscribers ahead of the global release, which remains scheduled for August 28, 2012.

This site hasn't published the artwork, title and track list before now because Juliana has wanted, in her olde worldy ye olde records style, to keep it a secret.

Although some of the arrangements will come as a surprise the chosen songs are pretty much in line with what she has posted to PledgeMusic / Twitter and the live shows in June.

1. Cells
2. Learn To Fly
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. Ready For Love
5. Selfmachine
6. Fruit Fly
7. Closet
8. Sweet Is The Night
9. Do I Wait
10. Friend Of Mine*
11. My Wife*
12. Rock And Roll

*omitted from the vinyl version.

What are you waiting for? Allez. Avante. Now.

Juliana:

I will say that from the last album [There’s Always Another Girl] I am really proud of the song “Wasting Time”. I think it might be the saddest song I’ve ever written but it’s so pretty and so grown-up. It’s subtle and toward the end of the album so I think it was overlooked by lot of people.

As part of Juliana's current PledgeMusic drive she has again offered the opportunity to ask her 20 questions via email.

With thanks once more to N'Awlins Contrarian (and Juliana) for sharing, you can read a set of her responses here:

Another20QuestionsAnswered.pdf

If you missed last year's Q&A between the same parties, you can view that pdf here.

People discussing "The Internets" will never get old.

Juliana's 2011 album There's Always Another Girl is available again on CD at julianahatfield.com.

...and that is when I introduced myself, “Hi, I’m Mary.” She surprisingly replied “You’re Mary Sparks Haddon from South Carolina” and we made small talk. I figured she remembered me from Twitter or Pledge Music.

Juliana fan Mary Haddon has written a heartwarming account of her 'trip of a lifetime' to Boston last week at:

https://www.mylifeline.org/maryhaddon/?page=myupdates.cfm&pg=5

The entry is dated today (July 3). Worth a few moments of your time.

Q Division Studios 6.27.12

see also a brief clip of Taxicab

via Carlos and justonescarf

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Andrew Youssef:

Her shimmering, early acoustic set featured a gorgeous cover of “Fruit Fly” from Nada Surf, a crystalline take on Foo Fighters’ “Learn To Fly,” as well as the some classics from her catalog like “My Sister,” “Nirvana,” and new songs like “Candy Wrappers.”

There's more on the Q Division studio shows last night, together with a gallery of 25 photos at Stereogum.

Two of David Young's great photos from yesterday's shows.

Thanks to David for sharing them here. See more of his set at Flickr.

UPDATE 

The full set and other info from the show is archived here:

Somerville 2012

Photos from the Q Division Shows last night:

A couple from spiketop at Flickr

If you're a fan of horrifically bastardised images fancy filters, there's a bunch on Instagram via ilovemypitbull 1, mhaddon 1 , 2 , 3 , and pledgemusic 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Juliana Hatfield at Q Division twitter.com/andrewk_77/sta…

— Andrew Kieschnick (@andrewk_77) June 28, 2012

Set list from the later electric band show, yesterday at Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA:

1. Somebody Is Waiting For Me
2. You Are The Camera
3. Taxicab
4. 364
5. Shining On
6. Closet (Pete Yorn)
7. Backseat
8. Just Lust
9. Necessito
10. My Wife (The Who)
11. OK OK
12. Oh
13. Candy Wrappers
14. Don't Wanna Dance
15. Do You Wanna Dance (Bobby Freeman)
16. Ready For Love (Bad Company)
17. 1000's of Guitars
18. Ugly (Encore - Juliana without the band)

Thanks again to spiketop for posting this list at This is the Sound

Juliana Hatfield at Q Division twitter.com/andrewk_77/sta…

— Andrew Kieschnick (@andrewk_77) June 27, 2012

Set list from the acoustic leg of Juliana's double header of shows at Q Division Studios, Somerville, MA, yesterday.

1. Butterflies
2. I Picked You Up
3. Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters)
4. (New Song) ?
5. Failure
6. My Sister
7. Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
8. Fruit Fly (Nada Surf)
9. Nirvana
10. Slow Motion
11. Until Tomorrow
12. Vagabond
13. On Your Mind
14. Do I Wait (Ryan Adams)
15. Candy Wrappers
16. Law Of Nature

Thanks to spiketop for posting the list at This is the Sound

Juliana, via her official site:

Hello! I am releasing a handful of tickets to my private solo acoustic show coming up (really soon)(Wednesday) on June 27th at Q Division studios in Somerville, MA, for (local-area?) people who aren’t doing the Pledge Music thing but who might still want to see the show. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the ticket price includes beer and snacks and casual/intimate social atmosphere — I will be there all evening, before and after the show. Click here to order tickets. After purchase, names will be added to the guest list at the door in lieu of paper tickets.

Clip from Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979) with The Ramones performing "Do You Wanna Dance?". More info: http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257131

Juliana's cover of this cover can be heard now by PledgeMusic subscribers.

Check my new avatar - courtesy of the gifted @julianahatfield!

— John P. Strohm (@johnpstrohm) May 31, 2012

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/2266171185/image.jpg

Pledgers will have noted that Juliana recently posted a photo taken from a shoot in New York with Brad Walsh.

Three other photos from the shoot are now up on Brad's Flickr pages:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268150566

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268157838

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebradleythomas/7268166162

Thanks to Andrew for posting this info at This is the Sound

Official music video for School of Seven Bell's "Half Asleep" from the album Alpinisms - in stores now! Purchase from iTunes: http://bit.ly/d5dbwy Purchase from Amazon: http://amzn.to/fmHJ1k Connect with School of Seven Bells: http://myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells http://facebook.com/schoolofsevenbells http://twitter.com/sviib http://sviib.com

really liking alpinisms by school of seven bells that my friend turned me onto the other day

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 24, 2012

Alpinisms is the 2008 debut album from School Of Seven Bells.

The band are heavily played on the liveontomorrow.co.uk stereo and their two subsequent albums - 2010's Disconnect From Desire and this year's Ghostory come highly recommended.

Good to know Jules is now a fan.

Two upcoming shows on the same day - acoustic and full band, both at Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA on Wednesday, June 27 2012.

In her announcement at PledgeMusic, Juliana says while there is the possibility of further shows this year, these could be the only performances in support of the covers album. Her discomfort with playing live has been well documented for many years, and you'll recall there was only one full band show for the previous album.

Billed as 'private shows', tickets (priced at $50 each) go on sale to pledgers at PledgeMusic tomorrow (19 May 2012) at 10am EST.

If you can't make it, you may be able to hear it later:

@VoodooHipster @PledgeMusic will record shows but gotta have time to mix it to my liking for possible release later on

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) May 18, 2012

Who will you be covering and was it hard to narrow down the songs?

A funny thing is that a bunch of the songs are from about 10 years ago. I don’t know what it is about that period of time, but I keep going there. One example is the song “Fruit Fly” by Nada Surf, a band I like a lot. And I was lucky to have Matthew Caws (the singer from Nada Surf) sing on a few of the songs on the album. He did not sing on his song, “Fruit Fly,” though.

You can read a short Q&A with Juliana on PledgeMusic's blog.

Some Some Girls news:

Heidi Gluck is currently touring the US with Joel Henderson, both as opening act and playing in Joel's band.

thanks to Carlos for the info.