Shipping in May and screenprinted based on orders received, both shirts are now available at American Laundromat Records.
These two new designs are by Sandrine Pagnoux and based on Stacee Sledge's great photo from Juliana's Nashville show in January 2020.
View this post on Instagramnashville, the other night. photo by @stacee.
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John P. Strohm, writing today for Talkhouse about "the 'demonic' 1970s Chevy cargo van that carried Blake Babies across America":
Juliana always drove, because she believed that she had a psychic connection with The Van and she could will it to stay on the road. We had a boom box that ran on batteries, but often we just rode in silence as Juliana looked straight ahead, jaw clenched, occasionally muttering insults to the van when it made its strange noises or if any indicator lights came on. The “check engine” light remained on pretty much always after we left New England.
An outstanding solo electric session recorded on February 13, 2020 at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio.
Juliana plays Sunny Somewhere, Everything's For Sale, and Lost Ship.
Recorded earlier in the year during her tour, here's Juliana performing 3 acoustic covers for WUWM at the Lake Effect Performance Studios in Milwaukee. You can hear the original broadcast including an interview at wuwm.com.
Nicole Anguish's poster for Juliana's recent show at ONCE Ballroom in Somerville is available for sale at Daykamp Creative. There are three designs to choose from.
It's catching up with all the news day here. So, a little later than planned (due to being on the road and then the liveontomorrow laptop in for repair!), here are some highlights from the last bunch of shows on the US tour which came to an end last Friday in Brooklyn.
Firstly, a stunning solo encore of Roxanne from Seattle:
There's a review by John Oakes plus a photoset at Twin Cities Media, and a flickr gallery by Adam Bubolz, both from the St Paul show.
Bryan Lansky's photos of the ONCE Somerville show are at We All Want Someone To Shout For.
Going back to earlier in the tour, a review of the LA show by Harriet Kaplan for Live Music News & Review.
Also, an outstanding set of official photos by Renata Steiner from Juliana's visit to KEXP last month.
last night in brooklyn, last night of the tour,,shot by david doobinin pic.twitter.com/wXQ6S4robR
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 16, 2020
@julianahatfield was kind enough to sign some CD’s when we saw her in Somerville this past week. A handful of each title pictured are available on our web shop https://t.co/TvuIiCsy0N Good Luck! pic.twitter.com/vsWbDqPMKx
— American Laundromat (@laundromat13) February 16, 2020
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Michael Lello, interviewing Juliana for Highway 81 Revisited on the Police covers album:
[Juliana]...quickly dismisses the notion that performing songs written and originally sung by a man had any impact on her approach to them.
“No, not at all. I don’t think gender matters at all in these songs,” she says. “I did not change the gender because I think sometimes when a woman sings a man’s song, sometimes they change the gender and I always find that very jarring. It disturbs the song. It takes you out of the trance of song. I don’t think it matters what pronouns I sing. Plus it changes my perspective too. With ‘Roxanne,’ when Sting sings about it it’s a different story, it’s about a streetwalker, being in this agonized love affair with a streetwalker. When I sing ‘Roxanne’ I’m singing about a friend who’s a streetwalker.”
Sunshine Boys (Freda Love Smith's band) perform live in the studios of KDHX in St. Louis, February 8, 2020.
Juliana's US tour headed west this week. Ignore that the above video is from the week before and enjoy some of the highlights from this week:
The LA show at Echoplex has been reviewed with great photosets at buzzbands.la, with another photoset at relix.
Could not have asked for a better finish to my @julianahatfield 4 show streak than what happened in LA last night - I will now go and live in the desert (for a few days at least). Oh and that pedalboard trouble driven solo (+audience) version of Roxanne ❤️🧡💛💚 pic.twitter.com/BB0vV5ckMi
— Carsten Pedersen (@carstengp) January 28, 2020
More video of the Blake Babies reunion at the weekend, this time with improved audio. Thanks to Stacee Sledge for posting this to YouTube and via the Juliana Hatfield Three Facebook page.
Image from spiketop / YouTube
Juliana's US tour began last week in Evanston, IL and continues through to the east coast in February.
As trailed, fans at the Nashville show at the weekend were treated to a Blake Babies reunion.
Here's that moment and other highlights from some of your posts at the first week of shows:
What a treat to see @_Sunshine_Boys opening for @julianahatfield on the first night of her winter tour at @evanstonspace! Can’t wait for Indy... see y’all tomorrow! 🧡 pic.twitter.com/rIs7D2DWM1
— Johnny Barrtoonist! (@JohnnyBarrToons) January 17, 2020
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View this post on InstagramHere we are all together last night; the only offstage shot anyone managed to catch! Photo @stacee
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View this post on Instagramnashville, the other night. photo by @stacee.
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Thanks to spike for getting in touch with video of this moment. There's more from Juliana's set on spike's YouTube page.
View this post on InstagramHatfield setlist (show still in progress). #julianahatfield❤️
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Here's Juliana interviewed by Gregory Druker Day for The Portland Podcast, talking about the Police album and the current tour.
Also, if you missed it there's another audio interview with Juliana at wbhm.
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From an interview by Brent Thompson for Birmingham Stages ahead of the upcoming US tour:
Birmingham Stages: You have a large catalog of music at this point in your career. With that said, how do you comprise your set lists these days?
Hatfield: It can be really random. I made an album of covers called Juliana Hatfield – it was self-titled and kind of an obnoxious name for an album of covers [laughs] and I made it seven or eight years ago. Someone reminded me of the song I recorded by Teenage Fanclub called “Cells” which I hadn’t thought of for a long time. And I thought, “Oh, maybe I’ll play that one in the set” because I remember how much I liked it. There’s no real system. I’m trying to pull things from lots of of different years – doing a bunch from the last few albums and then going back to the first and second albums.
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Sunshine Boys - the three-piece Chicago band which includes Freda Love Smith on drums, have announced their second album with a new single Infinity Girl and a crowdfunder at Indiegogo.
The band will also be opening for Juliana at the Evanston, IL (Jan 16), Indianapolis, TN (Jan 17), Nashville, TN (Jan 18), Birmingham, AL (Jan 19) dates on Juliana's upcoming US Tour.
Also of note for that Nashville show:
yes, freda and john and i will all be at the nashville show...i'm just sayin' https://t.co/VSf5CfDKRE
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) December 18, 2019
Update: Juliana has confirmed who will be opening on some of the other shows:
tour starts next week! first four shows w/sunshine boys (@fredalovesmith), TX shows w/emily davis and the murder police, cali w/pottymouth . ..my band is dean fisher, mike oram, and chris anzalone (et moi) 🎸🎸🎻🥁🎤 pic.twitter.com/sTOvnlMUpz
— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) January 11, 2020
Juliana is interviewed by Craig Rosen, talking about her Olivia Newton-John and Police projects as part of a feature at Tidal on the subject of covers:
Hatfield admits that she has done at least one ironic cover, in her earlier days. Earwig, a 1989 album by Hatfield’s band the Blake Babies, featured a cover of the Stooges’ highly sexualized anthem “Loose.” “That was a little ironic,” she says. “It was also kind of a joke, because I was a virgin at that time and I was singing this cock-rock song.”
These days, Hatfield says she’s no longer interested in being ironic. “What’s the point in belittling anything that was made with love?” she says. “Music is really precious, but it’s complicated because it’s all caught up in commerce. You have to be careful. If you’re going to knock something publicly, there has to be a real reason for it.”
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New official video!
Directed and Edited by Rachel Lichtman.
This is wonderful.
Here's a couple of 1993 TV interviews that have appeared on YouTube in recent weeks, both of which I don't think I've seen before.
There's Gary Crowley giving it a big British "JuliARNER" pronounciation in his London interview (which also has an acoustic version of My Sister), and a Japanese TV interview from earlier in the year previewing Become What You Are.
Thanks to Carlos for the info.
