Juliana has contributed We're Not In Charleston Anymore to a tribute album - Ciao My Shining Star - The Songs of Mark Mulcahy. Mulcahy was the frontman for Miracle Legion and Polaris. He continues to write songs, and raise two daughters following the death of his wife last year. Proceeds from the album (due on 29 September) will go directly to him. More info and the tracklisting (featuring Dinosaur Jr, Thom Yorke and Michael Stipe) at Icon vs Icon.
Prepare Paypal posture and head for Juliana's download page for yet more new songs - The Idea Of Me, That's What You Get For Loving Me and Broken Record, the latter available in two instrumental flavours - avec drum/bass and sans drums.
From Juliana's show last night supporting The Bangles. Video by Steve Latham. Juliana's messageboard has photos from the show taken by Steve and others.
In her recent unpublished book chapter Juliana mentioned sharing a stage with Bruce Springsteen - a moment captured on YouTube. Watch the singer from The Hold Steady go "basically, nuts, jumping up and down like a giddy kid." Don't watch Juliana avoiding the mike.
"Maybe the music industry had spat me out, but now Sarah had invited me back in. I should’ve been heartened and encouraged by being hand-picked for the tour. Sarah’s invitation meant that all the other stuff (album sales, chart positions, record company support) didn’t matter. It was me, my unpolished, unglamorous music, that mattered. My music had its own intrinsic value and it meant something to some people..."
Juliana on Lilith Fair and sharing a stage with The Boss in a new unpublished book chapter, now online at Juliana's blog. UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished. For now at least they are though available on Juliana's MySpace blog.
Juliana's 2006 live compilation album The White Broken Line is now available as a digital download. Stores include iTunes in the UK and US, plus Amazon in the UK and US.
Juliana's session for Daytrotter is finally available. The set was recorded last year and features, oh yes ladies and gentlemen, a new song - Butterflies together with versions of Law Of Nature, So Alone, and a cover of It's Only Rock n Roll (But I Like It).
Listen or download the mp3s and read Juliana's comments on each song in the article at daytrotter.com
"It's so gross and nasty for people to be watching and waiting and almost cheerleading for Lindsay to relapse, or get in a car crash or whatever. Horrible."
Juliana talking further about the inspiration for There's Always Another Girl (for Lindsay Lohan) - this week's featured 'Gum Drop' at Stereogum.
Another month, another batch of mp3 downloads available on Juliana's official site: Accidents, It's Not The End Of The World, You Don't Know Who You Are, I Am Here (with drums) and I Am Here (without drums). Download, donate and devour.
"I really have these dreams of secluding myself in a monastery for years and being silent and eating brown rice and doing nothing else. That appeals to me that life. I just read “Eat, Pray, Love” that Ashram sounds so great to me.You probably would miss some of the world. Probably a nice new bag can make me happy. If I wasn’t developing this lust for nice things, I never had that lust. I find myself wanting to get a fat chunky gold ring. I don’t have any nice jewelry. I want that but at the same time I want to be a monk. "
More on the new album, Lindsay Lohan, blogs, books and Juliana's new found love of Twitter in an interview with Amy Shuster for Pop-Rock Candy Mountain.
3 new 'honor system' songs are now available for download at julianahatfield.com: Bringing You Down Again, Something In Her Eyes and There's Always Another Girl (for Lindsay Lohan). Prolific is the word.
Juliana's tweets from April 17th: "all lindsay lohan needs is one great role and someone to give her a chance at it....and maybe she needs to get out of hollywood and hang out with some real people."
Now we have a new Juliana song recorded today - There's Always Another Girl (for Lindsay Lohan).
Yes, a year after surprising her fans by launching a blog at An Arm and a Leg, Juliana is now a microblogger, or if you like a tweeter. Real time updates for the new media world started today with "The conductor on the train to D.C. told me that he owned 88 guitars."
"As I drove, I thought, “Why am I comfortable only when I’m en-route? Why is it only in the opening between a starting point and a destination that I am at ease? It never fails: My restlessness and fear and longing fly out the window as soon as I hit the gas. I literally leave my troubles behind.”
'8/6 Cambridge to Cleveland' - a new unpublished chapter from When I Grow Up - A Memoir is now online at julianahatfield.com
UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished. For now at least though they are on the blog pages at Juliana's MySpace site.
“You can be more efficient as an artist today, you don’t need a studio, but ... it takes away some of the mystique and excitement of putting a record out.”
Juliana on reported plans for the new (and seemingly confirmed as acoustic) album, a new non-fiction book, a novel and painting projects in an article in Falls Church News Press.
