The Juliana Hatfield Three tour landed at The Chapel in San Francisco on Sunday.
There's a review and a great set of photos by Greg Chow at Three Match Breeze.
Photo: Lieve Neven
Three new East Coast dates have been added to the JH3 US tour. Update - There's now a fourth new one at Somerville. Update 2 - A Vermont show previously listed for April 16 has been removed from the schedule
The revised list of shows still to come as of today:
March, 2015
18 Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
20 SXSW, Austin, TX
22 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
23 Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
24 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
April, 2015
17 Historic Theater, Portsmouth, NH (double bill with Buffalo Tom)
18 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
19 Cuisine en Locale, Somerville, MA
21 Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI
A lengthy interview with Juliana by Leslie Michele Derrough for Glide covers a lot of ground from high school songwriting, the Blake Babies and the JH3 reunion:
Which one of the songs almost didn’t make it onto the record?
Well, I think “Blame The Stylist” was one. I was thinking of leaving it off. I just didn’t know if it fit among all the other songs cause it has a different sound and the subject matter is kind of different from everything else on the record. But then I put it on because I was trying to tie this record somehow back to the first record and some of the songs have similarities to songs from Become What You Are, and “Blame The Stylist” has a little bit of dramatic similarity to “Supermodel” from the first album. It’s about image and stuff like that so I left it on the album.
Is that a newer song or one of the older songs you already had written?
That one I had an acoustic demo of that for a long time. The demo actually is on a cassette. I made a version of it on a 4-track recorder a long time ago but I never really finished the words so I really just had the title and some chords. Then when we went back into the studio I rediscovered it on this old cassette and I thought like, wow, this is really still totally relevant and we could make an interesting song out of it.
The Juliana Hatfield Three played the Tractor Tavern in Seattle last Wednesday.
Lol @ the flyer. What a marvellous thing.
In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, here's Stacee Sledge's cool video of a guitar solo bit in President Garfield:
There's more of David Lee's photos in a photoset at Flickr.
Evan covering Juliana last week in Munich.
(Thanks to Carlos for spotting this. An earlier post from London has been pulled from YT.)
It's impossible for a band to announce an album any more without a deluge of pleas for vinyl. I mean, look at the responses to this tweet by Wolf Alice yesterday about iTunes pre-orders for their debut album.
So then, in response to similar demand, American Laundromat Records are now taking orders for JH3's Whatever, My Love on LP, with a choice of colours. Shipping is estimated for August 2015 and there's an as yet unspecified bonus track involved.
Update March 22 The release date is August 17, 2015 and the bonus track is Only In The Dark - previously heard as a home demo during the 2013 PledgeMusic campaign for Wild Animals.
Important to note that ALR say pressing will be limited to these pre-orders.
Update June 8 The release date has been put back to 'early November, 2015' due to the processing plant running over capacity.
90s College Rock 4 EVA.
Tom Lanham, in a short, oddly themed article for San Francisco Examiner:
Hatfield won’t allow herself a bedroom TV set, and she won’t subscribe to cable. The few free stations she does receive beam in through her rabbit-eared digital converter box. “And a couple of them are really great – one plays obscure old movies, and another plays cool shows from the ‘60s and ‘70s. I have a DSL line, so I do have the Internet, which I would love to get rid of, because I have fantasies of being off the grid one day. But right now, I’m still trying to make a living, so I kind of need it.”
Shaun Tandon, in a syndicated piece on Juliana for AFP at Yahoo:
She feels similarly about her musical skills. For years, she tried to make her voice raspier -- even taking up smoking -- but has come to terms with her strengths and weaknesses.
"There is nothing I can do about it," she said of her voice. "I don't sound like Courtney Love -- I just don't. I love Courtney Love's voice."
The article is a bit of fluff but has some decent photos by Timothy A Clary taken at the recent Juliana Hatfield Three Bowery Ballroom show in NYC. Larger, higher res versions can be found in the same syndicated piece which appears on the Daily Mail's website. I'm not linking to that publication so search that out if you want to.
The Juliana Hatfield Three tour hit St Paul, MN on Monday.
The Current has a review with a nice photoset.
Also, Vu reviewing at We Heart Music:
Later on in the show, Hatfield wanted to get a bunch of 90s bands together, The Lemonheads, Letter to Cleo, Marcy's Playground, etc., in a music festival called "It Came From the 90s". In her mind, she's got it all sorted out, including the poster artwork and so on.
Chris Kwan, who posted the above set list photo to Instagram, also has a few YouTube things including Push Pin and Dumb Fun.
The Juliana Hatfield Three are scheduled to perform on KEXP this Wednesday (March 11, 2015) at 0930 PDT (1230 EST, 1630 GMT / UTC).
You'll be able to listen at the KEXP site.
The KEXP sessions are often outstanding - Minor Alps' performance in 2013 a case in point.
Update March 11 - They played My Sister, Ordinary Guy, I'm Shy, and a radio friendly Spin The Bottle.
Update March 12 - Don't miss the KEXP photos on Flickr.
Update March 28 - KEXP have now posted video.
The Juliana Hatfield Three played the Black Cat in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night.
There's a brief review and a good set of photos by Matt Condon at Chunky Glasses. Update: Matt's full set is at Flickr.
In addition to the above video feature by BrewersArcade with some highlights of the show, YouTube is also home to other cuts including Spin The Bottle, Nirvana and the Minor Threat cover I Don't Want To Hear It.
There's another brief review at philly.com and for some YouTube stuff there's Supermodel, My Sister and This Is The Sound from night 1 and What A Life (different from the view above) from night 2.
Thanks to Carsten for the video of What A Life above. For more of Carsten's photos head to Flickr.
Facebookers, Twitterers and Instagrammers will have noted that Juliana's official channels have shared photos of the tour merch in recent days:
The Juliana Hatfield Three's show at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last Sunday was reviewed at Brooklyn Vegan, where you'll find an extensive set of photos by Greg Cristman (who will make them available for purchase on his site from March 15). Update Higher res versions are now up on Flickr.
Carsten Pedersen also has some photos over on Flickr, Update: as does Dave W.
There's several YouTube things too including Nirvana (embedded above) and, from various uploaders,A Dame With A Rod, If I Could, My Sister, Everybody Loves Me But You, Mabel, President Garfield, Little Pieces and Supermodel.
Search out Facebook, Instagram and Twitter stuff out there too if you can't get enough.
An interesting Q&A with Juliana by Keith Valcourt for The Washington Times, despite being festooned with adverts and 'click here to read another two sentences' horrors, ends with talk of projects old and new:
Q: A couple of years back there was an attempt at a Lemonheads reunion CD. Why did that fail?
A: Evan and I went out to LA, and Ben Deily, who was in the original Lemonheads, was there too. We went to Ryan Adams’ studio, [and] he was going to play drums. But we had to pull the plug after the first day because Evan wasn’t in any shape to do it. He wasn’t prepared either. He didn’t have any songs. It was a kind of a disaster.
Q: What else are you working on musically?
A: I’m doing some writing with another songwriter, but I don’t want to name any names right now. But I’m going to try to write some songs with another songwriter [as well].
The Juliana Hatfield Three are featured in the March 2015 edition of Performer Magazine. The article by Vincent Scarpa reveals this nugget about the origin of one of Whatever, My Love's (and Wild Animals') tracks:
"Push Pin," the album's most infectious song, was written by Hatfield for a possible Lemonheads reunion album a few years prior, to be produced by Ryan Adams (a project that never came to fruition).
There's a digital version of the print edition which can be viewed here.
Update - There's now an easier to read conventional web page version of the interview - http://performermag.com/the-juliana-hatfield-three-returns-the-performer-interview/
The second date of the Juliana Hatfield Three US tour was a hometown show for Juliana last night at The Sinclair in Cambridge, MA.
Another great set of photos here by David Young.
A little look at the merch in this tweet from Eric Liwanag: