Not sure what surprises me more, that Juliana Hatfield would do an album of Olivia Newton-John songs or that The Wall Street Journal would write about it!
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Song of the Day: 'A Little More Love' by Juliana Hatfield
First video from the indie queen's Olivia Newton-John tribute album. Couldn't have asked for a better pick -- this one should have been Livvy's "Physical" moment.
Order HERE.
Monday, January 08, 2018
Remains of the Day (01/08)
Bull Moose: Juliana Hatfield's tribute to the great Olivia Newton-John is almost here, and the line-up is totally hot!
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Song of the Day: 'Out There' by the Blake Babies
As I mentioned after Monday's Juliana Hatfield concert, my brother Bill was a huge Blake Babies fan, which led to Terence's being one, too. Although I eventually got into Hatfield's post-BB work a bit, for some reason I never circled back. (It all seemed so overwhelming!) But after getting this message from a friend with whom I talk music -- and seeing he was kind of lukewarm on JK too -- I'm diving in!
I loved Blake Babies in the '90s but Juliana's solo stuff was very hit & miss. I usually liked 2 or 3 tracks per album and about 8 of them were only OK.
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
New Year's Day With Juliana Hatfield
Had sort of a bittersweet evening last night thinking of my brother Bill while watching his girl Juliana Hatfield perform at City Winery. (She actually opened for someone I’d never heard of , Joseph Arthur, till I met Damian.) Bill was a rapid JH, Blake Babies and JH Three fan, which led to my seeing her at Hammerjacks in Baltimore with my old Huntington Beach roommate Paul during a blizzard in ‘94 — nearly got killed on the way there in a non-4-wheel-drive Isuzu Rodeo! She's as self-deprecating and insecure as ever, but put on a great set featuring a bunch of songs from her latest album ("Pussycat") as well as classics like "Everybody Loves Me but You" and "My Sister." Highlight of the evening: Finding out her next album is all Olivia Newton-John covers -- tentatively titled "Hopelessly Devoted to Liv" -- and hearing her sing “I Honestly Love You” and “Suspended in Time” live. It was like Bill and I had been reunited!
Went with Damian and his sister Marci, who is a HUGE Joseph Arthur fan!
UPDATE:
I see she's doing "Have You Never Been Mellow" and "Physical" elsewhere!
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Song of the Day: 'Josey and the Pussycats' by Juliana Hatfield and Tanya Donelly
Tanya is married to Juliana Hatfield Three bassist Dean Fisher.
Missed this one back in the day, although I somehow saw Juliana Hatfield in Baltimore during a blizzard in '94 (our car went into a spin en route to Hammerjacks thanks to black ice!), yet didn't see Tanya Donelly until Joe's Pub 2004. My brothers were always bigger fans of the Blake Babies and Juliana, although Bill notes that these days her Twitter account she "comes across as a tired spinster complaining about her rent"(!).
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Back to the '80s ... and '90s!
Kinda fitting that I should learn about a concert featuring three great acts from the '80s and '90s -- the Psychedelic Furs, Lemonheads and Juliana Hatfield -- via a poster on the street.this week! (I should have rounded it out by calling Ticketmaster, but opted to go online.)
I'm going mostly for the Furs -- one of my all-time favorite bands -- but I have had my flirtations with Evan Dano and Juliana. "The Outdoor Type" boasts one of the best lines in the history of pop music -- "I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend / What if something's on TV and it's never shown again?" -- which is to say nothing of "Big Gay Heart." And I nearly got killed going to see the former Blake Baby at Hammerjacks in Baltimore in the mid-'90s when my friend Paul's car suddenly started spinning around on the BW Parkway thanks to black ice. (The mosh pit seemed rather tame after that!) Hope to see some of you at the Best Buy Theater (formerly the Nokia) tomorrow night. Tickets available HERE. I've got my beard trimmer out, so I'll be the new wave geek trying to fit in behind the goatee and the plaid shirt, realizing even that's 20 years old now!
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UPDATE: Bitch cancelled!
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