Juliana has announced a new 7-inch single to be released for Record Store Day's Black Friday event on November 27, 2020, restricted to US stores.

On transparent magenta coloured vinyl, the single will have two original "holiday" songs - Christmas Cactus and Red Poinsettia.

Red Poinsettia is all new. Christmas Cactus is a new version of a song which dates back to 2016, when it was briefly available as a home recording at Juliana's official site, and it has been played live several times since.

Here's a version from 2017 (at 3:13 after Choose Drugs):

Ray Padgett, in an excerpt from his book Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen posted at Literary Hub featuring an interview with Juliana focusing on her history of covering other artists:

As an artist who’s never shied away from making political music herself, Hatfield feels this helps her connect these songs to her own. Though some may view these tribute albums as a side project or a novelty, she sees them as of a piece with her own work, and plans to continue issuing them even as she keeps recording her own compositions.

This, Hatfield feels, is her tribute album future. After joining so many different tribute albums for so many different reasons, doing them on her own feels more pure—and more fun. Though she never plans things too far in advance, she envisions R.E.M. as the series’ next chapter. At the rate she’s going, she may have added one or two more installments by the time you read this.

Freda Love Smith, writing at Talkhouse:

Juliana Hatfield and I were bandmates in the Boston indie-rock band Blake Babies. This year marks the 30-year anniversary of our music video for the song “Out There,” which featured us shaving our heads on camera.

In early 2020, my band Sunshine Boys supported Juliana for a few shows on her US tour, and during a backstage chat we discovered we were both sick of dyeing our hair to hide the grey, and had both been thinking about chopping it all off to let nature take its course. Months later, during COVID-19 lockdown, we decided to take the leap together again, making a tidy bookend with the “Out There” video shoot 30 years earlier.

The article goes on to include an edited transcript of an email exchange between Freda and Juliana as they "reflect on now and then, going grey, and growing older."

There are photots of their glorious new haircuts there too, so I won't spoil the reveal by posting them here, particularly if you haven't seen Juliana's Twitter in recent days!

talkhouse.com/freda-love-smith-and-juliana-hatfield-got-matching-quarantine-haircuts/

KEXP have now posted video from Juliana’s live session recorded at their studios in Seattle on January 31, 2020 during her winter tour. Remember tours? :(

Juliana and the band are on top form here and they sound outstanding. They play Hole In My Life, an awesome version of Lost Ship, Juliana then chats to DJ Cheryl Waters, and they finish with Everything’s For Sale and Wonder Why.

It’s also worth revisiting Renata Steiner’s excellent official photo set from that day.

These KEXP sessions are always SO good. A reminder of Juliana’s last couple of visits:

The Juliana Hatfield Three, 2015
Minor Alps, 2013

Previously only available as part of a pre-order bundle for Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police, the bonus single Truth Hits Everybody is released today on all the usual digital platforms.

The original from Outlandos d'Amour:

Illinois rock band Local H release their 9th album Lifers today.

Juliana’s vocals feature on the track Winter Western.

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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.

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nashville, 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.

talkhouse.com/the-van-from-hell/

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:

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thanks to @matchubacca for sharing this video from the seattle show

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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.

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photo by @stacee

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this printed request was handed up to me on stage last night. i like this song-request technique

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Ms. Hatfield, always a pleasure 🥰

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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

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

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Juliana Hatfield at the Echoplex LA #echoplex #music #concert #guitar #musician #julianahatfieldthree #julianahatfield @julianahatfield

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photo by steven rood

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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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A couple of cool shots from last night’s show at @evanstonspace #rockphotography #julianahatfield #wintertour2020 #livemusic #ontour #rockmusic

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@julianahatfield live at @evanstonspace Photo by @romansobus #julianahatfield #space #evanstonspace #chicago #romansobusphotography #chicagolivemusic #liveinchicago #liveinchicago #livephoto #chicagomusic #chicagolivemusic #chicagomusicscene #chicagomusicguide

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Here we are all together last night; the only offstage shot anyone managed to catch! Photo @stacee

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nashville, 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.

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Hatfield setlist (show still in progress). #julianahatfield❤️

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Juliana Hatfield #julianahatfield #granadadallas

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