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Interview - Paste

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From a feature - 'The Juliana Hatfield Three: Still Becoming What They Are' - by Stephen M. Deusner for Paste::

If Whatever My Love sounds like a direct sequel to Become What You Are, it might be because several of these songs were written in the mid to late 1990s, when Hatfield was at the peak of her popularity. She recorded “If I Could,” “Now That I’ve Found You” and “Invisible” as demos, with Philips on drums, but they never fit on any of her subsequent albums. “I loved those songs and I didn’t want to forget about them. Todd was actually the one who suggested I bring them back for this record. He made me remember how much I liked them.”

Interview - USA Today

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A feature by Patrick Foster in USA Today:

The focus of the shows will firmly be on the music and, befitting a reunion tour, the group's better-known work will take center stage. "We're actually going to be playing the Become What You Are album in its entirety. That's the first order of business. After that we're going to do some songs from the new album and some older stuff from throughout the years." As for crowd expectations, "it will be a nice kind of mixture" she predicts. "People that will be there for nostalgic reasons, and I think there will be some younger people."

Whatever, My Love - Released Today

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Today!

Whatever, My Love - the new album from The Juliana Hatfield Three - the kind of follow up to 1993's Become What You Are - is released today on American Laundromat Records.

If you weren't part of the PledgeMusic gang who received the album last week you should be able to find it from your retailer of choice, direct from American Laundromat and as a download on your iTunes in most territories.

American Laundromat are currently streaming the whole thing too.

The Boston Globe have reviewed the record today, not altogether favourably.

And, because we're all 2015 now, here's a video review by The Daily Guru:

Play: Juliana Hatfield Three, "Whatever, My Love" Album Review - New Music Monday
Watch on YouTube

There will be a liveontomorrow.co.uk review ™ in due course, but not just yet. I want to give it several more listens.

New (Old) Song - I'm Shy

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The 4th track from Whatever, My Love to get the pre-release streaming treatment is I'm Shy - another of the re-recorded versions of songs previously released on mp3 a decade back.

The album's out on general release tomorrow of course.

New Song - Wood

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American Laundromat Records are now streaming a third song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album, Whatever, My Love.

Wood is one of two bonafide all new songs on the record.

Juliana calls the song "the opposite of 'I Wanna Sex You Up'" and describes it as being "about numbness and dissociation – feeling like a block of wood." Speaking to Rolling Stone, she says:

There are mood swings in both mind and body. Like I've said before in songs like 'I Got No Idols,' sometimes 'I don't like to be touched.' How do you handle it when you feel dead and numb? When your significant other wants affection and you don't? It's complicated and mysterious, biological and psychological and emotional.

It sounds very much like a Juliana Hatfield Three song should in 2015. Good work.

New (Old) Song - Ordinary Guy

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American Laundromat Records are streaming another song from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album Whatever, My Love.

Ordinary Guy is another reworked version of a song previously released in Juliana's 'Honor Download Experiment' a decade ago.

Boston, Jan 10, 2015 - Photos

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A great set of photos by David Young from Saturday night's Juliana Hatfield Three performance for the Hot Stove Cool Music benefit show at the Paradise Rock Club.

See also David's photos of other artists on the bill including Mike Gent, Jen Trynin and Tanya Donelly.

Click / tap to enlarge, obvs:

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Juliana Hatfield Three 2015 US Tour

Tour dates!

February, 2015
26 Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME 27 The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA

March, 2015
1 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY 3 Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia, PA 4 Black Cat, Washington, DC 6 Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, OH 7 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 8 Turf Club, St. Paul, MN 11 Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA 12 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR 14 City Winery, Napa, CA 15 The Chapel, San Francisco, CA 16 Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, CA

Any extra dates will be added to the tour dates page here when announced but you'd be wise to keep track of Juliana's official site and social media for updates.

New (Old) Song - If I Could

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Here we go then. This track is taken from the forthcoming Juliana Hatfield Three album, Whatever, My Love.

It's a new recording of a song first heard in the 'honor downloads experiment' a decade ago.

Juliana:

I have always loved this song and I always wanted it to be done up properly and although this is not shockingly or radically different than the demo, I really love it.

Folk over on the PledgeMusic comments recall Juliana performing this song at the Bush Hall shows in London back in 2006. The website you're reading now exists because of those shows.

The song is rather special, isn't it?

New JH3 Album - Whatever, My Love

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The forthcoming album from the reunited Juliana Hatfield Three will be titled Whatever, My Love.

Loving the deference to the 1993 artwork.

We have a scheduled release date of February 17, 2015.

Perhaps a little unexpectedly (given Juliana's run of solo self-released albums), the band are signed to American Laundromat Records, who now have the album listed:

The twelve songs on "Whatever, My Love" are unsentimental, funny, and honest. Hatfield, humble as always, acknowledges that, "We haven’t totally reinvented the wheel or anything" with this new album and that the recordings exhibit "stuff I am sort of known for, I guess": a guitar-centric melodicism, and lyrical examinations of emotional confusion. "But I am a lot more confident now than I was then with the first album. And I had more fun recording this one."

Hatfield’s songs’ subjects still don’t know why people are the way they are. But the music is fresh and inspired, gorgeous and punk, sleazy and sweet; fully present and alive. With their new album, the Juliana Hatfield Three has in a sense responded to its former directive to "become what you are" by making an album that is exactly what it wants to be, identifiable in its acceptance--and celebration--of the unknowable and unsolvable.

American Laundromat are now taking pre-orders which include bundle options for buttons, a decal and a t-shirt.

The shirt is a different design to that offered by Juliana through PledgeMusic and is available unbundled from the CD for $24 plus postage.

The tracklist:

  1. Invisible
  2. Now That I Have Found You
  3. Ordinary Guy
  4. If Only We Were Dogs
  5. I'm Shy
  6. Dog On A Chain
  7. If I Could
  8. Push Pin
  9. Blame The Stylist
  10. I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands
  11. Wood
  12. Parking Lots

A sad face emoji for the moment you realise that Blame The Stylist and Wood appear to be the only previously unheard songs here.

The following have been heard in some form before:

1,2,3,5,7 - first released during Juliana's Download Experiment in 2004-2005

4 - from Sittin' In A Tree..., a 2007 EP recorded with Frank Smith

6,8,12 - from Wild Animals, a 2013 solo acoustic album

10 - from Get There, a 2013 Minor Alps Album

They are all new recordings though and let's not forget that the involvement of Tom Beaujour in the studio with Minor Alps helped transform June 6th to Away Again last year.

Also, February isn't far off now is it? Good times ahead.

The Juliana Hatfield Three Are Back!

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Exclamation mark in post title! Big news!

On the same freaking day that David Lynch announced the return of Twin Peaks, Juliana confirmed the reformation of The Juliana Hatfield Three. It was all a bit much for those of us old enough to remember the early 90s.

I am kind of excited to announce that the Juliana Hatfield Three has reformed to make a new album--our second, after "Become What You Are"

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) October 6, 2014

Last year Juliana mooted the possibility of playing some 'Become What You Are' shows and continued to talk about it during the recent Minor Alps European tour. That she's reforming the band (with Dean Fisher and Todd Philips) and recording new music is even better news.

The new album, the second to be released under the JH3 moniker over 21 years later, will be a fan funded thing.

The project is now

live at PledgeMusic (archived)

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Juliana:

Todd, Dean, and I have just begun recording with the lovely and talented Tom Beaujour (who worked with me and Matthew [Caws] on the Minor Alps album) at the Nuthouse in Hoboken, New Jersey, and so far it is going great. Some of you may have previously heard some version of some of the songs we are working on. For example, one of the songs we are exploring is “If I Could”. We have always loved this song but there have only ever been demos of it; it has never been properly finished or produced. There are multiple attempted versions of it but the nut has never been quite cracked, and this has always sort of haunted me. Now I feel like I finally have the chance to get it right with Todd and Dean. We are also exploring electricized band versions of a couple of the punchier acoustic home-recorded songs from my last album, “Wild Animals”. And there will be some other surprises.

Things of note in the Pledge exclusives:

VIP tour soundcheck passes (for US dates to be confirmed circa March 2015)

God's Foot demos!

Skype guitar lessons

Juliana's Cream SG

There's plenty of other stuff including artwork, clothing and instruments.

Also, Juliana's on-off 'it's complicated' relationship with Facebook appears to be back on. There's now a Juliana Hatfield Three page, together with her reactivated official page.

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UPDATE November 9, 2014 - The project is now 100% funded.