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Juliana will be one of the performers at Hot Stove Cool Music on May 18, 2021, an event which also features Eddie Vedder, Bill Janovitz, Kay Hanley, and more.

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Vincent Scarpa, interviewing Juliana for Performer Mag:

VS: It’s interesting to see this record and Pussycat as bookends of the Trump era, though of course they’re so much more than that, and about more than that. (I’ve long argued for the political nature of all your music, whether it be front and center or a more covert kind of personal politics.) Were you still feeling some of the rage we talked about when we spoke together in promoting Pussycat? How had your outlook changed, if at all, as we approached the end of the Trump presidency and entered the present one, into which this album is being released? A song like “Nightmary,” in which you describe “hour after hour bombarded by lies / it’s a desecration of your mind,” seems to testify to some lingering — and certainly justified — rage.

JH: The album is definitely inspired by the last four years and all of the ugliness and all of the dirt that floated to the surface. Now it’s all out there, floating around. All the rocks that have been overturned, all the scum that floated to the top. And now we’re living with it, and we have to deal with it — or not. I’m really glad that there’s new leadership, but I don’t feel like that solves anything, really. Well, it solves one big problem, right? But most of the bad guys still need to be punished. And the songs “Chunks” and “Had a Dream” are about that; about wanting those guys to be punished. And that still has to happen. There’s a lot of unfinished business, and ongoing corruption and lies and murder and greed. It’s not ending because we have a new president.

I think this album is my most misanthropic album of all of them. I’m not kind to my own self on this record. I think I came out of the past four years with this feeling that it’s more clear to me than ever that people are not going to leave this world a better place. People can’t be trusted to do the right thing. People are selfish. Humanity, as a whole, is going to ruin this world. It’s happening. And we can try to do the right things, we can try to change, but ultimately you have to contend with the fact that people are selfish and we’re on kind of a downward spiral. We can make little fixes, elect different presidents, but it’s a Band-Aid on a deep wound.

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Recently uploaded to YouTube, this TV appearance from 1995 is probably new to most of us.

Part of the Only Everything promotion, Juliana performs My Darling acoustically with Lisa Mednick on accordion and then there's a brief interview with the hosts Regis & Kathie.

Thanks to Carlos Lopez for spotting this, and to Simon Tibbs for the upload.

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From the broadcast on Wednesday's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee show on TBS, here's Juliana's solo performance of Mouthful of Blood.

Confiriming her announcement during last week’s livestream for In Exile Deo, Juliana will be back at Q Division Studios on Saturday May 8, 2021 at 4pm EDT to perform songs from the new album Blood.

Writing on her official website:

This show will be a bit different than the previous ones in that I will not be performing a whole album start to finish. I will play a handful of songs from the "Blood" album, but I will also pick a selection of songs from my vast decades-spanning repertoire that all somehow touch on the idea of blood. ("Anemia" will be one of them.)

As ever, this is a pay what you want affair with donations accepted via julianahatfield.com

As broadcast on WCR FM earlier this week, here's Garry Foster's interview with Juliana.

The whole hour is devoted to Juliana's music and the interview section begins at 18:20.

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Released today, here's Gorgon, the 2nd single from Juliana's forthcoming album Blood.

Quoted at Stereogum, Juliana says:

“It was fun building it up from scratch and then letting it all hang loose in the long free-pop/jazz outro. Recording at home, there’s no one stopping me from indulging in every wacky musical whim that pops into my head.”

From an interview with Juliana by Dan Moffat for Allston Pudding:

AP: A lot of our readers are musicians that are trying to figure out how to record albums during a pandemic. I heard a lot of Blood was recorded at home. What instruments were recorded at home?
JH: I usually start off with a drum machine beat, just one beat that repeats over and over. Because I don’t know how to program a whole complicated drum beat. I have an old drum machine that I use. I might find a beat on that and record a few minutes of it. Or I find a beat on GarageBand and then lay down 4 minutes of a drum beat. And then start adding maybe acoustic or electric guitar, and then I just add onto that as I see fit. A little keyboard, bass, vocals.
After I had done a lot of it at home I took the stuff to Q Division Studios and added real drums to the fake drums and I added some more guitars that I wanted to do in the studio because I can’t really play guitars through loud amps in my apartment.
There are a few songs that I collaborated on with Jed Davis [Sevendys, Collider]. You can tell the songs he worked on because he programmed more elaborate drums like on “Shame of Love” and “Had A Dream.” The real simple drums are me, like on “Nightmary” and “Gorgon.” I have more of a simple groove, like on Nightmary there’s one cymbal crash at the end and that was me. That’s my style. I’m not a flashy drummer.

Juliana in conversation with Chuck Clough and Ike Walker for Above The Basement.

Juliana’s 5th livestream show will feature her 2004 album In Exile Deo, live from Q Division Studios.

The show will be on Saturday April 24, 2021 at 4pm EDT (that’s 9pm BST / 10pm CEST.)

Once again PayPal donations are accepted at Juliana’s official site, and the show will be live on Q Division’s YouTube channel where it is intended to stay online for roughly 2 weeks.

Another podcast interview! From the Dirt from the Road description:

Juliana Hatfield (ex-The Lemonheads) and Brett Newski discuss splendid isolation, reincarnation, why death won't be bad at all, and being an introvert in an extroverted world.

I’m curious as to how this podcast came about given that Brett admits to only having a limited familiarity with Juliana’s career. Thankfully though it’s a good chat because he doesn’t blag it and the only hint of interviewer’s cursory Wikipedia research that shows this up is the “ex- The Lemonheads” bit in the description.

It’s available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and elsewhere.

Separately, the written word survives the podcast era with Juliana interviewed by Tatum Jenkins for WERS:

(WERS): WE HAVE A BIG EMPHASIS ON COMMUNITY AND STAYING LOCAL HERE AT WERS. DO YOU FEEL THAT BOSTON HAS HAD ANY SORT OF IMPACT ON YOUR ART AND HOW YOU DRAW INSPIRATION FROM YOUR ENVIRONMENT?

JH: Well, I really like the changing of the seasons. I find it invigorates me, the cold and autumn, and the seasons can really influence my writing. I mean, I wrote a whole song about the heat wave a couple years ago, but it was all about suffering through one of our horrible, humid heat waves. Also, I like that artists in Boston are all about the work and not about networking. It’s not about desperately striving for fame. Everyone is low key and they just want to put their heads down and do the work. It’s not about hype, and I really like that.

Another week, another JH podcast interview! From She Rocks Podcast’s episode description:

When COVID hit musician and singer/songwriter Juliana Hatfield took it upon herself to learn the recording process. She wrote and recorded most of her upcoming album, 'Blood,' as she learned. Her sing-songy melodic style hides stinger lyrics that delve deep into touchpoint issues. 'Blood' is Hatfield's 19th solo album and is due out May 14, 2021. Based in the Boston area, Hatfield is formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2010s. Here we sit down to hear much more about the creative process and her outlook today.

Listen in the embedded player above or at all the usual clients including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast.

Queen of Shit Mountain aka Queen of S-Mountain (“a music podcast hosted by LG, the front-woman for the greatest, all-female, queer, southern rock band of all time, Thelma and the Sleaze”):

Juliana Hatfield is a legendary musician of the bands Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, and The Juliana Hatfield Three, and more. Her career was born out of a music scene she helped to shape in the 80s and 90s with fellow trailblazers like The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. In part one of this episode, LG chats with Juliana about her trajectory, the rock music scene of that era, and her songwriting/recording process.

This is another great podcast where a fellow musician interviews Juliana. Looking forward to part 2 already.

Listen in the embedded player above, or clients including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast.

For more on supporting LG’s podcast, see her Patreon.

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This clip has recently appeared on YouTube and is probably new for many of us.

Your new video is set in a gym, so that’s where we’ll interview you is a 90s MTV vibe.

Important content to watch for: “Someone recently described my singing as bird-like…”

This is one of a few vintage clips that have appeared online of late, including this quirky Blender interview from the same era and alip-synced JH3 performance of Spin The Bottle from UK show The Beat.

Thanks to Carlos for keeping an eye on YouTube for these links.

The 4th in Juliana’s monthly livestream shows will feature her 2008 album How To Walk Away.

Writing at her official site, Juliana says:

I am going to set up both an acoustic and an electric guitar, though I won't be playing them both at the same time (I only have two hands, unfortunately).

The show is scheduled for March 20, 2021 (back to a Saturday slot).

This will again be 4pm local time for Juliana, but time zone aficionados will note this will be in Eastern Daylight Time, so Europeans should consult their calendars. (For instance in the UK we will still be on GMT making this an hour earlier than usual for us at 8pm London time).

You know the score by now but for newbs the show will be live on Q Division’s YouTube channel and stay online for a couple of weeks, with pay what you like PayPal donations taken via julianahatfield.com

While you wait for this show you can read all about the album with the 2008 track-by-track review and more info than you’ll ever need on the How To Walk Away archive page, part of the ongoing revamp of the discography section.

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Local H, in the description of their latest podcast:

We recorded the last episode so we could record this episode. The second punch in our opening podcasting salvo features our first real guest — the great Juliana Hatfield. Super-fan Gabe tries to hold it together while Scott does his best not to go full-on Chris Farley Show. Topics include: The art of looper pedals, the time Juliana and her band taught Scott how to ski, the great rock and roll restroom dilemma — and Ben drops some of his serious Robbie Benson knowledge. We’re getting there, folks.

This is an excellent listen following on from Juliana’s appearance in Local H’s latest video this week. The band are super knowledgeable about Juliana’s career and she’s clearly having a fun chat with fellow musicians.

Among other topics discussed are a couple of albums in contention for the next livestream, the possibility of Only Everything featuring in future gigs (full band and even solo in the UK), and some tantalising legal updates on the God’s Foot saga.

A hugely recommended listen, available above and all the usual places you get your podcasts including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast.

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Here's the new official video for Local H's song Winter Western featuring Juliana's vocals (and silhouette.)

The video is directed by frequent JH collaborator Rachel Lichtman.

The song is taken from Local H's album Lifers, released last April and "relaunched" today with this video and an interview at Spin with Scott Lucas from the band.

They come around so quickly, these livestreams.

Juliana, writing at her official site:

For this third installment I will perform, at Q Division Studios, my “Only Everything” album, start to finish, by myself with an electric guitar and a loop pedal, which will enable me to play some guitar solos over some looped chord progressions (trust me, it'll be fun). It will be broadcast via the Q Division YouTube channel .

The scheduled time is 4pm EST on February 21, 2021. That's the same time of day as before (9pm GMT, 10pm CET) but a different day of the week (it's a Sunday) just to keep us alert.

More about the show and the pay-what-you-want donation link at julianahatfield.com

To help prepare for the show you can familiarise yourself with the majesty of the album with original press reviews and more on the Only Everything discography page:

Only Everything (1995)

The solo electric with loop pedal feel will bring back memories for those of us who attended Juliana's European shows in 2006. Check out Carsten and Lieve's excellent photos from back then: