Juliana Hatfield

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Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, The Juliana Hatfield Three, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as one half of Minor Alps with Matthew Caws of Nada Surf.

In December 2014, Paste named her cover of the song "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith number 10 in a list of the 20 Best Cover Songs of 2014.

In 2014, she reformed The Juliana Hatfield Three, announcing the new album Whatever, My Love for 2015.

In late December, Stereogum named the album "one of their most anticipated albums of 2015", and on January 4, 2015, Consequence of Sound named it "one of the 50 most anticipated albums of 2015."

Early life

Hatfield grew up in the Boston suburb of Duxbury. Despite recording a song titled "My Sister", Hatfield has no sisters but she does have two brothers.

Her father claimed his family descended from the West Virginia Hatfields of the Hatfield–McCoy feud following the Civil War. Her father served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.

Hatfield went to Duxbury High School in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She attended Boston University and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hatfield also attended art school at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2012 in a year-long, post-baccalaureate certificate program, to study painting.

Personal life

Hatfield has been a vegetarian for many years.

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Music career

Hatfield was introduced by a babysitter to the music of the Los Angeles punk rock band X, which was a life-changing journey. Olivia Newton-John and The Police were also attracted to the music of more mainstream artists, such as Olivia Newton-John and The Police.

She formed the band Blake Babies with John Strohm and Freda Love while still at Berklee College of Music in 1986. The band released four albums between 1987 and 1991, garnering critical attention in Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, local radio airplay, and press, as well as Mammoth Records in North Carolina. The band formed in 1992 but after a brief break in 2001 to release another album, they had a short reunion in 2001.

She joined The Lemonheads as their bass player after the Blake Babies' break-up, replacing founding bassist Jesse Peretz and playing on their debut album It's a Shame About Ray in 1992. She left the band after a year, but she returned in 1993 as a guest vocalist on several tracks of Come on Feel the Lemonheads.

Hey Babe, her debut solo album in 1992, was released in 1992.

She made her commercial breakthrough in 1993 with the founding of The Juliana Hatfield Three, as well as high-school friend Dean Fisher on bass and former Bullet LaVolta drummer Todd Philips, who appears lead vocal and lead guitar duties. The band made "Become What You Are" and two hit singles, "My Sister" and "Spin the Bottle," among other items.

Maggie Rafferty, Hatfield's older brother, was based on Hatfield's older sister, who lived with the family when Hatfield was in high school. Rafferty's eclectic record collection delighted her. Rafferty was also taken to Hatfield to see the Del Fuegos and the Violent Femmes, which inspired her to form a band.

In the soundtrack to the Hollywood film Reality Bites (1994), "Spin the Bottle" was used. Hatfield also appeared on the cover of Spin magazine.

Hatfield was featured in a number of girls' magazines, most notably Sassy, at this moment, and explored the challenges faced by young women in her songs and interviews. "I was never at ease with the attention" at the time. It had arrived too late, I guess. I hadn't earned it yet." In 1992, she gained notoriety for declaring that she was still a virgin in her mid-twenties in Interview magazine. "I believe there are a lot of people out there who don't care about sex, but who you never hear from," she said in a 1994 interview for the magazine Vox. I noticed that the magazine I did the interview with is chock full of beef-cake hunky guys and scantily-clad models, so I thought it would be funny to say that I didn't care about sex in a magazine that is chock full of sex and beauty, but no one really understood the joke."

Hatfield's virginity would resurface in her press coverage over the years, often accompanied by rumors that she lost her virginity to The Lemonheads' chief Evan Dando, who had referred to her as his "friend and often girlfriend." Hatfield wrote to The Weekly Dig in 2006 in an attack on writer Debbie Driscoll's scathing appraisal of Soul Asylum's new album, The Silver Lining. Hatfield's virginity to Dando was revived, according to Kevin Dean of the newspaper, while Hatfield was chastised for bringing up her sex to Dando, who later stated that Spike Jonze had never had sex to Dando; she and Dando denied her virginity to. She would later confess that she lost her virginity while she was 26 and "damn ready."

The Juliana Hatfield Threesome stayed together through 1994, but by 1995, she had returned to solo prominence and sparked the release of the album "Everybody" in which she "turn up the volume and distortion and had a lot of fun." One reviewer describes it as "a fun, engaging pop album." In "Universal Heartbeat," Hatfield's album spawned another alternative radio hit. Hatfield portrayed a vivacious aerobics instructor in the video. Miranda Sutter, Ed Slanker on guitar, and Lisa Mednick on keyboards, all dressed up for Only Everything on tour. She cancelled the tour two weeks into the tour.

Hatfield writes that she was suffering from depression to the point of being suicidal. She disapproved of the decision to avoid discussing her depression. Phillips replaced the drummer, and Jeff Buckley was the opening act on tour.

In 1996, she was to Woodstock, New York, where she recorded tracks for God's Foot, her fourth solo album (third if not counting Become What You Are), which was intended for 1997 release. She asked to be released from her employment after three attempts to comply with calls from Atlantic Records, which ended in a no-show. The label obliged, but retained the rights to the songs that were played during these sessions. Atlantic had paid $180,000 for the recordings. "Mountains of Love" and "Fade Away" were included in a greatest hits collection named Gold Stars, while "Can't Kill Myself" was available on Hatfield's website. The remaining tracks appeared on bootlegs, which she detestified, and she has rarely played them live.

Hatfield performed at the Lilith Fair in 1997, an all-female rock festival created by singer Sarah McLachlan.

Hatfield released EP Please Do Not Disturb for the free label Bar/None, following God's Foot's life and released from her label responsibilities. The album was produced by Hatfield, and drummer Todd Phillips, guitarist Ed Slanker, and Mike Leahy, as well as bassist Mikey Welsh of Weezer were among the album's contributors. "Trying Not to Think About It" was a salute to her friend, deceased musician Jeff Buckley.

Almost as an retort to God's Foot's Foot, Hatfield's Foot formed the album Bed in 1998 in six days, about which she said on her website, "It sounds as raw as I felt." It has no luster, and it has no pretty sheen. The mistakes and unattractive parts were left in place and not erased. Just like my time in life. It's just like life."

Beautiful Creature was born in 2000. Hatfield's musical personality was unexpressed on this record, but she and Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure with Zephan Courtney and Mikey Welsh appeared simultaneously on Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure. "Long sloppy guitar solos" on the new album, she called it "a loud release of tension." And no love songs...a not-at-all positive reaction to humanity's ugly side, especially American culture." The first "a series of plaintive demos" and the second "chock-a-block with punk guitar missives," Billboard described. The Pony of Juliana: A total system failure was condemned by some commentators who favoured the more acoustic Beautiful Creature. Hatfield co-produced a portion of the album on Beautiful Creature, and he collaborated with singer Davy Garza. Wally Gagel, a producer for Sebadoh and Tanya Donelly, helped Hatfield record "Cool Rock Boy" and "Don't Rush Me," which added life to the otherwise acoustic record.

Hatfield introduced Gold Stars 1992–2002: The Juliana Hatfield Collection. It included singles from her solo albums, two songs from the unveiled God's Foot, a copy of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart," as well as new songs.

Hatfield released In Exile Deo in 2004, an attempt to have a more commercial sound with input from designers and engineers who had collaborated with Pink and Avril Lavigne. Hatfield produced the album with David Leonard, who received co-production credits on "Jamie's in Town" and "Sunshine" as a result. Critics praised it, with some identifying it as her best work since she began working solo.

By comparison, the 2005 album Made in China was recorded in Bellows Falls, Vermont, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was released on her own record label, Ye Olde Records. Hatfield's playing instruments were accompanied by the band Unbusted and other contributors, giving the record a more authentic feel. Hatfield also played drums on at least one track for the first time.

The band's John Doe characterized the album as "a frighteningly poor and beautiful collection of stark, angular, and brutal songs and guitars." This is certainly a 'Woman Under the Influence,' although I'm not sure what it is. Some people liked the lo-fi sound and others dismissed it as sluggishness.

Hatfield began licensing her music on her website and in conjunction with a Red Eye distribution deal, and made it possible.

Hatfield and the band X, who she adored during her teenage years, toured the United States in December 2005.

Hatfield's first live album was released in 2006. Titled The White Broken Line: Live Recordings The album featured performances from her tour with X. Hatfield's third album on her debut was released.

How to Walk Away, Hatfield's ninth studio album, was released on Ye Olde Records on August 19, 2008. The album's heartfelt subject on a break-up of a relationship resurfaced with critics, who gave the album mainly glowing feedback, with some lauding it as her best album since In Exile Deo.

Hatfield's 10th studio album Peace & Love was released on Ye Olde Records on February 16, 2010. Hatfield's album's design, layout, execution, engineering, and mixing were solely responsible. The album received mixed feedback, with some claiming that the album's low-key moody quality was affecting the songs' potential.

Hatfield invited people to write custom songs in order to fund a few projects, one of which was to publish archive data. Hatfield said that it had "completely revived and inspired" her about halfway through the project.

At The Mercury Lounge in New York, Hatfield and Evan Dando performed two sell-out acoustic live shows together in October 2010. In Allston, a Boston suburb, the pair appeared at sell out shows in the following month. In January 2011, five dates were followed by this tour on the American east coast, with the exception of January 2011.

Hatfield revealed in April 2011 that she intended to work on a new album through fan-funding platform PledgeMusic, from which she begged followers to contribute to the fund in exchange for personal art and memorabilia ranging from posters, CDs, and demos to one of Juliana's First Act guitars (used during the recording sessions) and even locks of her hair. Hatfield is also a major contributor to the Save a Sato foundation, to which Hatfield is a major contributor. The fan reaction was enthusiastic, costing more than half of the original project's budget. The album was supposed to be titled Speeches Delivered to Animals and Plants, but Hatfield later changed it to There's Always Another Girl in reference to a song on the album titled I Know Who Killed Me, referring to Lindsay Lohan's flop I Know Who Killed Me.

On August 30, 2011, Always Another Girl was published on her Ye Olde Records label once more, though a downloadable version was made available to contributors a month before Juliana's birthday on July 27. Critical reviews have generally praised the album.

Juliana Hatfield's Ye Olde Records label issued a covers record titled Juliana Hatfield on August 28, 2012. The collection includes covers of songs performed by The Who, Liz Phair, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ryan Adams, I Blame Coco, and Led Zeppelin.

Juliana Hatfield has completed her thirteenth solo album, Wild Animals, with crowd-funding—for the third time—through PledgeMusic.

Paste Magazine's "Needle in the Hay," an Elliott Smith cover, as No. 61 in December 2014. "Best Cover Songs of 2014" is ten of the best "20 Best Cover Songs of 2014." The cover was described as "a more upbeat, approachable take on Smith's disparate, wrought-iron masterpiece." However, although it now uses bass, drums, tambourine, and synth, the album remains true to the original's tragic, tension-riddled design." SPIN Magazine named the cover one of the "40 Best 2014 Songs by 1994 Artists" this month, where it debuted at No. 4. 36. The article states, "The tempo's a bit quicker, and she double-tracks herself for the song's entire duration." However, Smith's eventual artistic direction is shown by the (tasteful) inclusion of chintzy drum software and mellotron.

The Juliana Hatfield Three reunited in 2014, two decades after it was disbanded. The trio's first since 1993's Become What You Are appeared on PledgeMusic to raise money for her latest album, titled Whatever, My Love. "We haven't completely reinvented the wheel or anything," Hatfield said, and that the tracks feature "stuff I'm just known for." However, I'm much more positive now than I was when I first heard the first album was released. This one was more fun to record than ever." The twelve tracks for Whatever, My Love were recorded at Nuthouse Recording in Hoboken, New Jersey, with Beaujour and Hatfield co-producing.

"If I Could," the lead single, was unveiled in December 2014 and was premiered in Rolling Stone. On American Laundromat Records for the month, the album was available for pre-order beginning on February 17, 2015. The band has announced that they would tour the United States in support of the album throughout February, including cities on both coasts and in the midwest, and at the Bowery Ballroom in Los Angeles.

Stereogum dubbed the album "one of the most awaited albums of 2015" in late December 2014, and Consequence of Sound named it "one of the top rated albums of 2015." Hatfield's debut at Nylon.com on January 9, 2015. On January 14, 2015, the album's second single, "Ordinary Guy," premiered on Consequence of Sound.

Hatfield and Paul Westerberg reported in 2015 that they had formed the I Don't Cares group. Wild Stab's album was released in 2016.

Hatfield has released a number of solo albums, including two albums of all cover songs, Juliana Hatfield Sings (2018) and Weird (2019).

Hatfield speculated that her next covers album would feature an American artist, having already performed an Australian (Newton-John) and an English band (The Police). Hatfield revealed that she was considering R.E.M. in an interview for the book I'm Your Fan: Leonard Cohen's Songs. It's the next cover album installment for her.

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