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A feature by Patrick Foster in USA Today:

The focus of the shows will firmly be on the music and, befitting a reunion tour, the group's better-known work will take center stage. "We're actually going to be playing the Become What You Are album in its entirety. That's the first order of business. After that we're going to do some songs from the new album and some older stuff from throughout the years." As for crowd expectations, "it will be a nice kind of mixture" she predicts. "People that will be there for nostalgic reasons, and I think there will be some younger people."

OMG, SAUSAGES, HILKEN, BRAS, LOL, etc

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From an article by Jim Sullivan for WBUR's The ARTery:

At various points, Hatfield, now 47, has moved away from music, or at least, has talked about doing so. “I feel like I should be doing something more grown-up or something more respectable,” she says, “but I just feel yanked back over and over again. It’s like being in love with someone who drives you crazy. You think you want to get away, and you try to get away and you just keep getting pulled back. It’s almost like it’s out of my hands. I can’t quit it. I keep trying, but I just can’t fight it anymore.”

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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:

Post by Juliana Hatfield (Official).

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.

Lesley Gore, famed for songs such as It's My Party and You Don't Own Me died yesterday at the age of 68.

She recorded those two songs when she was 16 and 17. Extraordinary.

You Don't Own Me has been covered many times but unsurprisingly I love most of all the performances by Juliana (my favourite songwriter) and Poliça (my favourite band).

"If I Could" from the upcoming sophomore release, "Whatever, My Love" by The Juliana Hatfield Three. Out February 17th on American Laundromat Records.

The 4th track from Whatever, My Love to get the pre-release streaming treatment is I'm Shy - another of the re-recorded versions of songs previously released on mp3 a decade back.

The album's out on general release tomorrow of course.

"I'm Shy" is a song about being shy.

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 16, 2015

A bunch of the initial reviews for the new album:

Whatever, My Love arrives with an extra bit of anticipation from Hatfield enthusiasts. And, much like its forebear, the album's 12 tunes are tight, tidy pop-rockers, presented in her characteristic straightforward-yet-slightly-skewed manner. See the needlepoint guitar that tears through the otherwise unadorned power-pop chugger "Push Pin," or how, on "Wood," her voice virtually mimics every twist of the circular chord progression.

4/5

Richard Bienstock, Billboard

 

While Whatever, My Love certainly sounds fresh by 2015 standards, the album still succeeds in bringing longtime listeners back to the time when “Alternative” truly meant something. 

Joel Gausten

Hatfield has always had a knack of taking a simple mid-tempo song and making it infectious.  The group accomplish that with the head-swaying "Now That I Have Found You", and the hook-filled earworm "If I Could".  It's a pop rock song that will stick in your brain well after the album is over.

8/10

Snob's Music

our #PSSF15 line up has been announced! Featuring @citizencope @wfitzsimmons @julianahatfield and @buffalotomband http://t.co/FSRrkjtFIl

— The Music Hall (@MusicHall) February 11, 2015

The Juliana Hatfield Three 2015 US dates move into April.

They are part of a double bill with Buffalo Tom on the 17th in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Details at The Historic Theater.

See the tour dates page for the list of previously announced headline shows in February and March.

Juliana, on the appeal of Guitar-Bass-Drums trios and keyboards:

It’s kind of classic and simple and hard to really fuck it up. It’s like there’s a comfort and simplicity in that sort of lineup, although lately I’ve been playing a lot more keyboards on the recordings. I’ve been getting back to playing keyboards. I just think it’s more fun to play a guitar live, because you can swing it around and bash on it and move. But with a keyboard you’re more rooted to one place. Also, I like how the guitar strings can bend, but the keyboard is more stationary and static, and you can’t … in a live setting, it’s kind of restraining.

Read the whole interview with Len Comaratta at Consequence of Sound.

"Wood" from the upcoming Juliana Hatfield Three sophomore release "Whatever, My Love" available February 17th on American Laundromat Records.

American Laundromat Records are now streaming a third song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album, Whatever, My Love.

Wood is one of two bonafide all new songs on the record.

Juliana calls the song "the opposite of 'I Wanna Sex You Up'" and describes it as being "about numbness and dissociation – feeling like a block of wood." Speaking to Rolling Stone, she says:

There are mood swings in both mind and body. Like I've said before in songs like 'I Got No Idols,' sometimes 'I don't like to be touched.' How do you handle it when you feel dead and numb? When your significant other wants affection and you don't? It's complicated and mysterious, biological and psychological and emotional.

It sounds very much like a Juliana Hatfield Three song should in 2015. Good work.

Dates at Solana Beach, CA (tickets), Atlanta, GA, and a second Philadelphia, PA show have been added to the upcoming Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are US tour.

Update Feb 4 - There's another show added at the Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC on March 23.

Update Feb 5 - Another one at Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC on March 24.

The updated schedule:

February, 2015
26 Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME
27 The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA

March, 2015
1 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
2 Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia, PA
3 Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia, PA
4 Black Cat, Washington, DC
6 Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, OH
7 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
8 Turf Club, St. Paul, MN
11 Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA
12 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
14 City Winery, Napa, CA
15 The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
16 Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA
18 Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
22 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
23 Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
24 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC

link to Philly tix: http://t.co/V44gXQ15g7

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 30, 2015

link to ATL tix: http://t.co/53uTtvZ0kQ

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 30, 2015

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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.

"Ordinary Guy" from the upcoming Juliana Hatfield Three sophomore release "Whatever, My Love" available February 17th on American Laundromat Records.

American Laundromat Records are streaming another song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album Whatever, My Love.

Ordinary Guy is another reworked version of a song previously released in Juliana's 'Honor Download Experiment' a decade ago.

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A great set of photos by David Young from Saturday night's Juliana Hatfield Three performance for the Hot Stove Cool Music benefit show at the Paradise Rock Club.

See also David's photos of other artists on the bill including Mike Gent, Jen Trynin and Tanya Donelly.

Click / tap to enlarge, obvs:

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See also an alternate YouTube video of Supermodel.

From last night's return of The Juliana Hatfield Three for the Hot Stove Cool Music event at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

Michael Marotta at Vanyaland reports a four song set comprising Supermodel, My Sister, If I Could, and I Got No Idols.

Juliana's soundcheck. Badass B. #HSCM2015

A video posted by Kay Hanley (@kayhanley) on Jan 10, 2015 at 12:22pm PST

Juliana soundchecking for tonight's comeback in Boston via Kay Hanley.

Who'd have thought she'd be playing this song? ;)

Juliana, interviewed by Kenneth Partridge for Nylon:

I’m nostalgic, but I’m more nostalgic for the 1970s, when I was a child growing up...That’s the era I really connect with. The music, the television, the movies, the fashion, the décor: The ‘70s is my favorite era. When I think of the ‘90s, I think of really bad fashion—like, a terrible fashion era. Not great TV. I don’t think it’s the best. I’m not personally nostalgic for it, but I understand that some people are, and if I can go out there and make those people happy while playing some music with my friends and having fun today, then that’s great. Then we’ll all be happy.