juliana hatfield
Soul Asylum, Local H and Juliana Hatfield to Hit the Road This Fall
The ’90s are back, baby. Soul Asylum will headline a 27-date fall tour that will feature fellow ’90s stalwarts Local H and Juliana Hatfield on the bill as well. All three artists have released albums in the past year, with Soul Asylum’s dropping at the onset of the pandemic. Local H released an album last year and Hatfield put out her new collection in May The Back In Your Face tour kicks off on Aug. 3 in Reading, Pennsylvania before hitting 26 other cities. It concludes in Dave Pirner’s home state of Minnesota, with a Sept. 18 show in Maple Grove. More dates will be announced soon. “Being off the road and at home for this last 15 months has been as hard on all of us, as it has everyone in the world really,” Pirner said in a statement. “We haven’t been in one place, for this long, in the h...
Mystery Date: Our 1994 Juliana Hatfield Cover Story
A version of this article originally appeared in the March 1994 issue of SPIN. In honor of Juliana Hatfield’s latest album, Blood, being released on May 14, 2021, we’re republishing this story. It takes a lot of hard work to keep an enigma in motion. Juliana Hatfield has never been afraid of the fierce work ethic of enigma maintenance. “I get pleasure in being misrepresented,” she says casually, shredding a toothpick into a pile of splinters on the table, “because it proves that people can’t figure me out. It’s good that people don’t know the real me. I wouldn’t want people to really know me. That would be creepy.” Hatfield has certainly given her listeners a lot of personality crises to puzzle through. Her six albums—two solo, four with the Blake Babies—bristle with lush melod...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Juliana Hatfield
Name Juliana Hatfield Best known for alternawaifdom. Current city Cambridge, MA. Really want to be in In one fantasy of mine I move to Helsinki to work as a textile designer for Marimekko. Or else just work in the factory. Excited about I might be joining a landscaping team! My current music collection has a lot of Nothing (I own almost no music—and I don’t stream). And a little bit of Trashy pop. Don’t judge me for Maybe Marie Osmond’s This Is the Way That I Feel, but then again I love it and I’m not embarrassed, dammit! Rock snobs can suck it! Preferred format Non-commercial genre-less terrestrial radio (WJIB is always on in my car). 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 PretendersPretenders It is immaculate and untouchable! It has tons of attitude but also subtlety. Chrissie Hynde’s voice is...
