Oh my! What a treat this is.
Uploaded 30 years after it took place by RoadToRuane - the "Billy Ruane live archive preservation," here's a Blake Babies show featuring Evan Dando.
The Juliana Hatfield Three! UK! 2019!
UPDATE 2: Brighton & Glasgow shows added!
UPDATE 1: London date is May 21. Birmingham venue is O2 Institute, not O2 Academy as I wrongly listed originally. Hope to see friends old and new in May! - Craig.
May 2019, UK
20 Brighton - The Prince Albert
21 London - O2 Academy Islington
22 Bristol - Thekla
23 Nottingham - Rescue Rooms
24 Glasgow - CCA
25 Manchester - Academy - part of Gigantic Vol 5 All Day Festival
26 Birmingham - O2 Institute
Juliana's official site says "more European shows to be announced.". Update April 3, 2019 - Juliana now says these 7 UK dates are now the only scheduled European shows.
New album info time!
It's called Weird and is due for release on January 18, 2019.
Here's the first single - It's So Weird:
From American Laundromat Records blog post:
Freda Love Smith (Blake Babies, Sunshine Boys) and Todd Philips (Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three) each played drums on multiple songs while Hatfield played all of the other instruments (and some additional drums).
Album Bio:
Laura Fisher has written liner notes as an "Album Bio", which is effectively the first review. An excerpt:
Why wouldn’t you want to block out the world? Hatfield asks us. Outside the home are people who misread your facial expressions (“Staying In”), whose gestures of love feel like efforts to possess you (“It’s So Weird”), who drag you into a vortex of lies and gaslighting (“Paid to Lie”), and who have allowed every last shred of human experience to be commodified, from dignity, religion, and privacy to fake IDs and opioids (“Everything’s For Sale”). Outside the glowing orb of independence are other people’s demands, their power plays, their lies and misinterpretations. Who needs it?
Artwork:
Track List:
- Staying In
- It's So Weird
- Sugar
- Everything's For Sale
- All Right, Yeah
- Broken Doll
- Receiver
- Lost Ship
- Paid To Lie
- No Meaning
- Do It To Music
Bonus 7" Track List:
- On Your Feet
- The Family Stain
Order Info:
Orders are being taken now for Vinyl, CD, Cassette, and Bonus 7 inch vinyl in a variety of specialist bundles at https://www.alr-music.com/products/juliana-hatfield-weird
The album is also being distributed through Cargo Records in the UK.
T-shirts & Other Merch:
If that's not enough, American Laundromat Records also have a couple of new Juliana t-shirts for sale, for delivery in January 2019, and now Iron-On Patches too:
A video for the b-side too!
Directed by James William Glass.
The single is released today on your digital / streaming service of choice. There's also the vinyl:
You can read reviews at Faster and Louder and at Broadway World.
The Safes' cover now has a video.
American Laundromat Records YouTube info:
Directed by Wendy Norton of Norton Videos
"Universal Heartbeat" Performed by The Safes
Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio
Written by Juliana Hatfield
Published by Universal Music-Z Songs OBO Juliana Hatfield Music (BMI)Visit The Safes:
http://thesafes.bandcamp.com
http://www.thesafes.com/music.html
http://www.instagram.com/thesafesmusic
http://www.facebook.com/thesafesmusic/
http://www.twitter.com/thesafesmusic
The tribute 7 inch:
Juliana appeared on stage for an encore at Liz Phair's show at Royale Boston last night (Oct 8, 2018.)
She performed Olivia Newton-John's Please Mr. Please with Liz and Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis.
New covers of Juliana's Universal Heart-beat and I See You are now available to order.
American Laundromat Records:
Chicago's The Safes are thrilled to release a 2-song, 7” tribute to Juliana Hatfield; one of their favorite artists. The Safes tracked this single with the one and only Steve Albini and, to turn this up to 11, The Safes asked their friends Ted Ansani and Mike Zelenko of legendary power pop trio Material Issue to be the rhythm section for this recording. Give it listen. These songs are as good as songs get -- The Safes saw no reason in trying to improve upon perfection and just had fun rockin' these classics.
Exclusive pressing on red vinyl. Original artwork by Nicole Anguish at Daykamp Creative. Only 500 copies exist. All 45's include a digital download card.
Juliana:
I'm so tickled by The Safes' joyful, lovable versions of my two songs! I think they really captured the essence of what the songs were and still are trying to say which is that there is always hope to be had
Order at American Laundromat Records:
UK live appearance alert!
On a bill including Echo & The Bunnymen, The Wonder Stuff, and The Bluetones, Juliana will appear at Manchester Academy on Saturday May 25, 2019 as part of Gigantic Vol.5.
Unexpected!
Juliana, writing on her official site:
I would like to share the home demos I made for the songs on my 2017 Pussycat album. I am making them available for the completists and for the curious and for, well, anyone and everyone else. You can download them below and if you want you can pay for them; you can donate however much or little you desire (or not). Much of the money that comes in will go right back into more music-making (studio recording, etc.)
For more info and the download / donation links head to:
Juliana played at the Wicked Good Festival on Boston Common yesterday (Aug 18, 2018) on a bill that included Buffalo Tom and Bleachers.
She played:
- Feel It
- Sunny Somewhere
- I See You
- Somebody Is Waiting For Me
- Wonder Why
- Failure
- My Sister
- I Don’t Know What To Do With My Hands
- Necessito
- Dancin' 'Round and 'Round
- Everything Is Forgiven
- Suspended In Time
- Physical
- Short-fingered Man
- Choose Drugs
Set list info via Charlie P.
Thanks to David Young of Dry Eye Photography for these excellent photos:
Uploaded to YouTube this week.
Broadcast on Tonight Live in Australia, 25 years ago.
Stacy Buchanan, for WGBH:
Juliana Hatfield Three’s Become What You Are just turned 25. It's hard to believe that one of Boston's most beloved albums is all grown up (and old enough to rent its own car). Reliving our own summers of '93 through the album sent us down the rabbit hole – and right to Ms. Hatfield's door.Juliana Hatfield grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Berklee. By the time she formed the Juliana Hatfield Three with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Phillips, she had already been musically involved with the Blake Babies and the Lemonheads, as well as having a solo career. But the Juliana Hatfield Three birthed Become What You Are – and with a little help from some of the best (you just had to be there) minutes from the 90s, it charted on the Billboard 200, and its single, “Spin the Bottle," charted on the Mainstream Top 40. The album also turned Hatfield into a cultural icon, a hero for a generation of women that didn’t always see a place for themselves in the alt-rock boom of the early 90s.
It's 2018, and Hatfield is still at it. She just released her 15th studio album, Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John, and will be performing at the WERS Wicked Good Festival on Saturday, August 18. We caught up with her to recall the memorable Gen X moments that came from that first studio album – and the difficulties of being thrust into the limelight as a female artist, where commercial success did not connote respect.
Released on SoundCloud today and previously only available on a 7 inch bonus single sold with the Olivia Newton-John covers album, here's Juliana's version of Deeper Than The Night.
Juliana, interviewed primarily about the Olivia album, by Warren Kurtz for Goldmine:
GM: You also taught me a few songs I didn’t know. Because of you, I finally bought the Xanadu soundtrack so that I could hear the original version of “Suspended in Time.” I also must have missed “Make a Move on Me” in 1982 on the radio, when I was listening to Quarterflash, Joan Jett and The Go-Go’s instead.JH: “Suspended in Time” is most like a song I would have written. I love the chord progression and it felt most natural. “Make a Move on Me” was a big hit from the Physical album. You know, the album cover photo with short hair and a bandana. I changed it up to be a 4/4 rock song.
Juliana played The Burren in Somerville on Monday (May 7, 2018) for the 20th anniversary of 1998's Bed album, which she played in full from the start, followed by some bangers from Hey Babe, BWYA, Pussycat, and the Olivia Newton-John covers LP.
Set list and lineup info courtesy of Charlie P:
Magen Tracy: keyboard, percussion backing vocals.
Todd Philips: drums (and unmic'd backing vocals)
Ed Valauskas: bass and backing vocals
- Down On Me
- I Want To Want You
- Swan Song
- Sneaking Around
- Backseat
- Live It Up
- You Are The Camera
- Running Out
- Bad Day
- Let's Blow It All
- Everybody Loves Me But You
- I See You
- Everything Is Forgiven
- Suspended In Time
- Physical
- Dancin' 'Round and 'Round
- Wonder Why
- My Sister
- Nirvana
Photos courtesy of David Young of Dry Eye Photography
YouTube is home to a bunch of clips. Thanks to spiketop for getting in touch about his playlist from the event and Carlos for other links.
Via WERS.org:
88.9 WERS is proud to present a Wicked Good Festival, featuring FREE performances from Bleachers, Buffalo Tom, Juliana Hatfield, and Air Traffic Controller with even more still to be announced! Free and open to the public, this community event on Boston Common will be fun for the whole family. So plan to join us on August 18th for our first ever and totally FREE Wicked Good Festival – make sure to check back regularly for festival updates and additions to the lineup.
Juliana, interviewed by Cryptic Rock, with some new album news:
CrypticRock.com – You have this new album, and you have continued to keep yourself busy through the years. Just in 2017 you released Pussycat, which was another really wonderful selection of original songs balancing youth and maturity. You mentioned you always have new ideas popping up, that in mind, are you working on any new music?
Juliana Hatfield – I am. I have already recorded some tracks with drums. I started work on my next album, I am writing it, recording it, and going to go back to the studio in early May to keep working on it. It’s all originals.
CrypticRock.com – Excellent! That is a very quick turn over between album. Is it safe to say creative inspiration is flowing freely for you?
Juliana Hatfield – Yea, I feel good about the creative part of me, it’s in really healthy shape. If I want to be a working musician, I have to work, like anyone else. That’s how I survive, that is how I make a living. I have to keep working; just because I had a record come out recently, doesn’t mean I should just sit around and toss myself with champagne. I have to keep working, that’s what people do.
