Whatever, My Love - the 2nd (or sophomore as those funny Americans like call it) album by The Juliana Hatfield Three from 2015 is being reissued on vinyl via a 2nd (sophomore) pressing.
Availability is estimated for August, 2016.
Fans of the long player who missed out first time round can now pre-order at American Laundromat, or via Cargo Records in the UK.
From a cover interview by Kevin Finn in this month's edition of The Noise, which goes over the JH3 reunion and the recent US shows:
Noise: A couple of my favorites on the new record are “Invisible” and “I’m Shy.” I know there can be a danger in assuming a song’s narrator and writer is the same person, but is there a challenge in putting songs with such personal emotion out there?
Juliana: No, that’s easy. The hard part for me is to display emotion in real life. It’s easy to put it in a song. You’re safer expressing things in song because you’re not actually one-on-one. You’re not truly vulnerable when you’re singing a song. There’s that remove; there’s distance from yourself to the other person who’s receiving that information.
Also of note: at the end Juliana mentions the possibility of JH3 gigs in October for those of us in Europe.
So, there's that.
thanks to Andrew for spotting this and sharing the interview link at the This Is The Sound Yahoo Group
There's an interview and performances of If I Could, My Sister, and I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands in a live session at Jefferson Public Radio.
There's a couple of photosets on Flickr from the Juliana Hatfield Three show at Cuisine en Locale in Somerville last month:
KEXP have today posted video of the Juliana Hatfield Three session from earlier this month in Seattle. Joyous times.
Watch the full performance as embedded above or separated into songs on YouTube: My Sister, Ordinary Guy, I'm Shy, and Spin The Bottle.
A reminder that there's a great photoset on Flickr too.
A roundup of links for the final leg of March 2015 dates on the Juliana Hatfield Three Become What You Are tour:
Leslie Kaholi has a great Flickr photoset of the Belly Up Tavern show at Solana Beach, CA on March 18.
On March 20, the band played a late night SXSW showcase at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, TX. There's a brief review by Cindy Royal (who took the above video) at On That Note. Among the crowd that night was a certain Blake Baby:
The Atlanta, GA gig at Terminal West on March 22 is reviewed by Chris Martin at Examiner.com:
Todd Philips and Dean Fisher set the pace keeping things steady as Hatfield flexed her vocal muscles and showed off her underappreciated guitar skills. 21 years later the Juliana Hatfield Three stills packs a punch. The band’s big rock sound hasn’t aged and Sunday night they sounded like a band that had been together for years.
There's some nice photos (including support band - fellow 90s veterans Magnapop) by John McNicholas on Flickr.
Charlotte, NC for @julianahatfield at the @NTheatre. pic.twitter.com/TZ8hBU1EuR
— Dan Wuori (@dwuori) March 24, 2015
The Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC show on March 23 has some YouTube video including This Is The Sound. Jeff Hahne's review (with photos) for Creative Loafing, Charlotte suggests this was a small attendance and low key performance, perhaps not helped by excessive, intrusive mobile phone / flash use - the scourge of many gigs these days:
Two-thirds of the way through Juliana Hatfield Three's hour-long set at the Neighborhood Theatre on Monday night, I noticed a man standing in front of the stage holding up his cellphone, taking video of the 47-year-old singer. Nothing new nowadays, right? Without missing a beat, Hatfield turned inward toward her bandmates. A moment later, she moved back on the dimly lit stage, a few steps toward the drums. As the song ended, Hatfield moved back to her original spot and told the crowd, "I'm always in the same place on this tour and wanted a different view." To me, it looked like she didn't want a cellphone distracting her. .. but perhaps a one-minute change of scenery was needed.
A few songs into the band's brief encore, though, a woman in front of the stage was taking pictures with her phone. As the flash went off multiple times, Hatfield once again grabbed her mic stand and moved back on the stage. It wasn't long after that the show ended.
Taking a few cellphone momentos of a show is understandable. Sharing them is often great for those of us not there. There's a line that you shouldn't cross though, particularly by doing things like failing to disable camera flash; you're not considering other people's enjoyment or, most importantly, the artist you're there to support. Weird that some people don't get that. Anyway...
Update There's some non flash, non cellphone pics by Kevin McGee for Shutter 16 at Flickr.
The final March date was the Cat's Cradle show at Carrboro, NC on March 24. There's bits on YouTube uploaded by TheSublminalPandaBear including Supermodel and My Sister (below) which began with some Juliana improv during Dean's amp issues.
There's now a little break before a handful of shows back on America's East Coast in mid April, 2015. The tour dates are here.
Photo: David Young
Another date has been added to the JH3 tour.
They will play at Cuisine en Locale, Somerville, MA on April 19, 2015 with support from Potty Mouth.
The previously announced tour dates are here.
Laura Morgan with a great review of last week's LA show at lyriquediscorde:
I felt both excitement and a sudden sadness when the last song began. That said, sing-screaming along to the line “I’ve got no idols” felt so cathartic. That surge in the crowd hit again, the bouncing and spinning, everyone singing it together, with Juliana. It was powerful, the combining of voices, the variety of people, from different walks and ways, coming together for the music. We may all have no idols per se, except for maybe the music, and for many of us there that night, Juliana’s Three.
Ahead of the JH3 show in the North Carolina city next week, Creative Loafing Charlotte has a feature by Jeff Hahne:
It's worth noting that Hatfield wasn't sitting on her laurels for the last 22 years though. She's released 11 solo albums since then, reunited with her original band Blake Babies and kept up a consistent touring regiment. One might think Hatfield could be a little upset in a "I've been here all along, if you were paying attention" kind of way, but she's not.
"I'm not pissed off," she says. "It's nice when people appreciate what you do. If people are interested in this, that's fine. It's not a huge buzz. We're not going to set the world on fire. It's a nice level of interest. It's nice that people care and want to see it."
The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles welcomed the Juliana Hatfield Three tour on Monday.
There's a couple of JH3 photos (in a set focusing on the support act Miranda Lee Richards) by BentleyBT at Flickr.
Trent at Pink Is The New Blog has a short review of what is described as the best show ever, so there's that.
Update - There's another great review at lyriquediscorde.
It seems like this was a really good one.
Juliana Hatfield Three (@julianahatfield) tonight at @theroxy! pic.twitter.com/5U0iGmJjD1
— joe1138 (@joe1138) March 17, 2015
The set list is changing a little bit between shows. At LA it was:
Thanks to Spike U. Topian for the set info, report of a "full enthusiastic high energy crowd", and a few videos on a YouTube playlist featuring Supermodel, Mabel, A Dame With A Rod, Addicted, and I Got No Idols.
There are various cuts on YouTube from other people if you search.
@julianahatfield You are the Triple Goddess and very loved. (And you kicked ass tonight!)✨ pic.twitter.com/4guUn7QEuW
— Heather Pierce (@heathervox) March 16, 2015
The Juliana Hatfield Three tour landed at The Chapel in San Francisco on Sunday.
There's a review and a great set of photos by Greg Chow at Three Match Breeze.
Photo: Lieve Neven
Three new East Coast dates have been added to the JH3 US tour. Update - There's now a fourth new one at Somerville. Update 2 - A Vermont show previously listed for April 16 has been removed from the schedule
The revised list of shows still to come as of today:
March, 2015
18 Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
20 SXSW, Austin, TX
22 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
23 Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, NC
24 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
April, 2015
17 Historic Theater, Portsmouth, NH (double bill with Buffalo Tom)
18 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA
19 Cuisine en Locale, Somerville, MA
21 Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI
A lengthy interview with Juliana by Leslie Michele Derrough for Glide covers a lot of ground from high school songwriting, the Blake Babies and the JH3 reunion:
Which one of the songs almost didn’t make it onto the record?
Well, I think “Blame The Stylist” was one. I was thinking of leaving it off. I just didn’t know if it fit among all the other songs cause it has a different sound and the subject matter is kind of different from everything else on the record. But then I put it on because I was trying to tie this record somehow back to the first record and some of the songs have similarities to songs from Become What You Are, and “Blame The Stylist” has a little bit of dramatic similarity to “Supermodel” from the first album. It’s about image and stuff like that so I left it on the album.
Is that a newer song or one of the older songs you already had written?
That one I had an acoustic demo of that for a long time. The demo actually is on a cassette. I made a version of it on a 4-track recorder a long time ago but I never really finished the words so I really just had the title and some chords. Then when we went back into the studio I rediscovered it on this old cassette and I thought like, wow, this is really still totally relevant and we could make an interesting song out of it.
The Juliana Hatfield Three played the Tractor Tavern in Seattle last Wednesday.
Lol @ the flyer. What a marvellous thing.
In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, here's Stacee Sledge's cool video of a guitar solo bit in President Garfield:
Seattle + @julianahatfield + rock pic.twitter.com/y6j7Untc5D
— che chou (@chespace) March 12, 2015
So many great songs and performances by @julianahatfield and her band at the @tractortavern last night. Wow. pic.twitter.com/tct32hGaIG
— David Lee (@davidly) March 12, 2015
There's more of David Lee's photos in a photoset at Flickr.
It's impossible for a band to announce an album any more without a deluge of pleas for vinyl. I mean, look at the responses to this tweet by Wolf Alice yesterday about iTunes pre-orders for their debut album.
So then, in response to similar demand, American Laundromat Records are now taking orders for JH3's Whatever, My Love on LP, with a choice of colours. Shipping is estimated for August 2015 and there's an as yet unspecified bonus track involved.
Update March 22 The release date is August 17, 2015 and the bonus track is Only In The Dark - previously heard as a home demo during the 2013 PledgeMusic campaign for Wild Animals.
Important to note that ALR say pressing will be limited to these pre-orders.
Update June 8 The release date has been put back to 'early November, 2015' due to the processing plant running over capacity.
Tom Lanham, in a short, oddly themed article for San Francisco Examiner:
Hatfield won’t allow herself a bedroom TV set, and she won’t subscribe to cable. The few free stations she does receive beam in through her rabbit-eared digital converter box. “And a couple of them are really great – one plays obscure old movies, and another plays cool shows from the ‘60s and ‘70s. I have a DSL line, so I do have the Internet, which I would love to get rid of, because I have fantasies of being off the grid one day. But right now, I’m still trying to make a living, so I kind of need it.”
Shaun Tandon, in a syndicated piece on Juliana for AFP at Yahoo:
She feels similarly about her musical skills. For years, she tried to make her voice raspier -- even taking up smoking -- but has come to terms with her strengths and weaknesses.
"There is nothing I can do about it," she said of her voice. "I don't sound like Courtney Love -- I just don't. I love Courtney Love's voice."
The article is a bit of fluff but has some decent photos by Timothy A Clary taken at the recent Juliana Hatfield Three Bowery Ballroom show in NYC. Larger, higher res versions can be found in the same syndicated piece which appears on the Daily Mail's website. I'm not linking to that publication so search that out if you want to.
A photo posted by Chris (@thesolsticebare) on
The Juliana Hatfield Three tour hit St Paul, MN on Monday.
The Current has a review with a nice photoset.
Also, Vu reviewing at We Heart Music:
Later on in the show, Hatfield wanted to get a bunch of 90s bands together, The Lemonheads, Letter to Cleo, Marcy's Playground, etc., in a music festival called "It Came From the 90s". In her mind, she's got it all sorted out, including the poster artwork and so on.
Chris Kwan, who posted the above set list photo to Instagram, also has a few YouTube things including Push Pin and Dumb Fun.
