Rosie Tucker sure knows how to grab your attention with an opening line: “I hope no one had to piss in a bottle at work to get me the thing I ordered on the internet.” That’s just one of the anti-capitalist zingers in the brilliantly titled “All My Exes Live in Vortexes.” Tucker rips modern culture apart in in Utopia Now!, a fresh, biting, innovative and fantastic piece of indie-rock agit-prop tunecraft. These songs combine the 20-something malaise with a critique of the consumerist machine, and what it does to our brains.
- 4/5/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Juliana Hatfield has confirmed a string of tour dates taking place in October and shared “Telephone Line,” the latest preview of her upcoming Elo covers album. Stream it below.
The US run kicks off on October 4th in Pittsburgh, with subsequent dates in Cleveland, Ohio; Evanston, Illinois; St. Paul, Minnesota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and New York City. On Being An Angel and Freda Love will open on select dates. See the full schedule below.
Tickets are currently available via Ticketmaster. You can also look for deals at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
In a statement, Hatfield broke down her “Telephone Line” cover: “Some people might not know what a busy signal is and might not comprehend what it means not to be able to leave a...
The US run kicks off on October 4th in Pittsburgh, with subsequent dates in Cleveland, Ohio; Evanston, Illinois; St. Paul, Minnesota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and New York City. On Being An Angel and Freda Love will open on select dates. See the full schedule below.
Tickets are currently available via Ticketmaster. You can also look for deals at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
In a statement, Hatfield broke down her “Telephone Line” cover: “Some people might not know what a busy signal is and might not comprehend what it means not to be able to leave a...
- 9/20/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Juliana Hatfield has announced a new addition to her series of covers albums. Juliana Hatfield Sings Elo drops November 17th via American Laundromat Records, while her rendition of “Don’t Bring Me Down” is out now.
As indie rock royalty, it may come as a surprise that Hatfield would enjoy the pop stylings of Electric Light Orchestra. Yet you could easily trace her inarguably catchy music to the band’s melodies. “Elo songs were always coming on the radio when I was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination,” Hatfield said in a statement. “With this album of covers I wanted to get my hands deep into some of the massive ‘70’s hits but I am also shining a light on some of the later work… My task was to try and break all the things down and reconstruct them subtly until they felt like mine.
As indie rock royalty, it may come as a surprise that Hatfield would enjoy the pop stylings of Electric Light Orchestra. Yet you could easily trace her inarguably catchy music to the band’s melodies. “Elo songs were always coming on the radio when I was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination,” Hatfield said in a statement. “With this album of covers I wanted to get my hands deep into some of the massive ‘70’s hits but I am also shining a light on some of the later work… My task was to try and break all the things down and reconstruct them subtly until they felt like mine.
- 5/24/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Boston alt-rock stalwarts the Lemonheads will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their hit album, It’s a Shame About Ray, with a North American tour this fall.
The Lemonheads will be performing the album in its entirety throughout the trek. Released in 1992, It’s a Shame About Ray marked the band’s fifth album, and its title track became a rock hit in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. The band also garnered a ton of success with their cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” which...
The Lemonheads will be performing the album in its entirety throughout the trek. Released in 1992, It’s a Shame About Ray marked the band’s fifth album, and its title track became a rock hit in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. The band also garnered a ton of success with their cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” which...
- 8/9/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The statistics of Bandcamp Friday speak for themselves: In the year-plus since the launch of the campaign, during which the platform has waived its revenue share for music purchased on the first Friday of each month, fans have paid artists more than $50 million dollars. “Bandcamp is like my life source,” metal auteur Trevor William Church told Rolling Stone in 2019, no doubt speaking for many creators in the age of meager streaming royalties. Bandcamp Friday continues on May 7th — read on for a slew of recommendations from Rs staffers on what...
- 5/7/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Rick Carp, Kory Grow, Joseph Hudak, Angie Martoccio, Rob Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, Simon Vozick-Levinson and Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Eddie Vedder, Yo-Yo Ma, and Juliana Hatfield are among the artists performing at this year’s annual Hot Stove Cool Music fundraising concert, which will take place virtually on May 18th.
Notable baseball execs and former players like ex-Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, pitcher Bronson Arroyo, New York Yankees great Bernie Williams, and famed sportswriter Peter Gammons are also set to take the stage at the event, which raises money for the Foundation to Be Named Later (Ftbnl)’s college scholarship program.
Vedder — a diehard Chicago Cubs fan — is...
Notable baseball execs and former players like ex-Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein, pitcher Bronson Arroyo, New York Yankees great Bernie Williams, and famed sportswriter Peter Gammons are also set to take the stage at the event, which raises money for the Foundation to Be Named Later (Ftbnl)’s college scholarship program.
Vedder — a diehard Chicago Cubs fan — is...
- 5/5/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Juliana Hatfield has revealed her 19th studio album, Blood, out May 14th via American Laundromat Records.
The singer-songwriter dropped the single “Mouthful of Blood” to accompany the announcement. “If I say what I want to say/It might get me killed,” she sings over a churning guitar riff.
“I always love coming up with melodies and then trying to fit words into them — it’s like doing a puzzle,” Hatfield said of the single. “And I always find places to use the Mellotron flutes and strings, on every album, because...
The singer-songwriter dropped the single “Mouthful of Blood” to accompany the announcement. “If I say what I want to say/It might get me killed,” she sings over a churning guitar riff.
“I always love coming up with melodies and then trying to fit words into them — it’s like doing a puzzle,” Hatfield said of the single. “And I always find places to use the Mellotron flutes and strings, on every album, because...
- 1/28/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Samantha Bee channeled Mike Myers’ “Saturday Night Live” character in a “Wayne’s World” sketch that imagined alternate endings to Election 2020’s presidential race. She had Juliana Hatfield serve as the basement band in the scene, which aired on Wednesday’s “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.”
In the first scenario, Bee’s Wayne Campbell is shaken by the news that Donald Trump won re-election in a landslide and the GOP took control of both the Senate and the House. Right after learning the news, the basement starts shaking as a fatal earthquake destroys America.
“Wait, can’t do this ending, it’s too sad. Let’s do the mystery one,” Bee said.
The “mystery one” that Bee (as Wayne) referred to is none other than a happy Joe Biden alternative ending.
That ending is chock full of Bee’s best-case scenarios with not only Biden becoming the 46th President of the...
In the first scenario, Bee’s Wayne Campbell is shaken by the news that Donald Trump won re-election in a landslide and the GOP took control of both the Senate and the House. Right after learning the news, the basement starts shaking as a fatal earthquake destroys America.
“Wait, can’t do this ending, it’s too sad. Let’s do the mystery one,” Bee said.
The “mystery one” that Bee (as Wayne) referred to is none other than a happy Joe Biden alternative ending.
That ending is chock full of Bee’s best-case scenarios with not only Biden becoming the 46th President of the...
- 11/5/2020
- by Joseph Kapsch
- The Wrap
Samantha Bee put a Wayne’s World spin on Election Day with a sketch that — emulating Mike Myers’ Saturday Night Live character — imagined the many alternate endings of the presidential race.
With Juliana Hatfield serving as the basement band, Bee’s Wayne Campbell first receives the worst possible news regarding the 2020 election — Trump won in a landslide, the GOP overtook the Senate and the House, a massive earthquake destroys America — before opting for a different conclusion.
“Wait! Can’t do this ending, it’s too sad. Let’s do the mystery one,...
With Juliana Hatfield serving as the basement band, Bee’s Wayne Campbell first receives the worst possible news regarding the 2020 election — Trump won in a landslide, the GOP overtook the Senate and the House, a massive earthquake destroys America — before opting for a different conclusion.
“Wait! Can’t do this ending, it’s too sad. Let’s do the mystery one,...
- 11/5/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Sumner, frontman of Fiction Plane and son of Sting, has shared a new song, “Hope,” along with a short celebrity-filled clip to encourage voter turnout ahead of the 2020 elections.
“Hope” is a bustling pop-rock track with rumbling drums and stirring guitar lines to bolster Sumner’s heart-on-sleeve lyrics: “Hope, won’t you come back to me,” he sings during the chorus, “And make me a believer/And set my heart free.”
As a last-minute get-out-the-vote effort, Sumner corralled a variety of celebrities and musicians to cover the song, which...
“Hope” is a bustling pop-rock track with rumbling drums and stirring guitar lines to bolster Sumner’s heart-on-sleeve lyrics: “Hope, won’t you come back to me,” he sings during the chorus, “And make me a believer/And set my heart free.”
As a last-minute get-out-the-vote effort, Sumner corralled a variety of celebrities and musicians to cover the song, which...
- 10/30/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Juliana Hatfield could, as they say, sing the phonebook and we’d listen. So it’s all the more captivating when she covers someone like the Police. Hatfield just dropped a Rachel Lichtman-directed video for her cover of “Can’t Stand Losing You,” off of 2019’s Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police (via American Laundromat).
Hatfield fronts a band of Julianas in the slick video for the track (she played all the instruments on the recording), her vocals adding new sheen to the 1978 classic. The three versions of Hatfield represent Sting,...
Hatfield fronts a band of Julianas in the slick video for the track (she played all the instruments on the recording), her vocals adding new sheen to the 1978 classic. The three versions of Hatfield represent Sting,...
- 1/8/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Marianne Faithfull feels out of sorts. “I have a cold, the weather’s been terribly hard here in Paris and, what else … well, the usual,” she says on a call from her home in the City of Lights. “I’ve got to have a shoulder replacement, so I’m in a lot of pain.” Despite living in a state of discomfort, her voice sounds strong and there’s something about how her words come through her London accent that suggests confidence. “In the end it will be much better,” she concedes.
- 11/5/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Seb Patrick Aug 23, 2016
We look back fondly at the innate weirdness of Nickelodeon's 90s show The Adventures Of Pete And Pete...
At some point in the early 1990s – I forget the exact year, but research tells me it must have been somewhere around late 1993 or early 1994 – something unbearably exciting happened in our suburb of Merseyside. The rumours went around the school playground in hushed whispers: “Have the cable vans been to your street yet?” Yes, cable TV was on its way to Crosby, meaning that for the first time, a world of viewing beyond the ordinary four terrestrial channels was available to homes without a whacking great ugly satellite dish glued to the outside.
Aside from the three major Sky titans – the football, the movies and The Simpsons – by far the biggest reason we all wanted to get cable was access to not one, not two, but three channels dedicated...
We look back fondly at the innate weirdness of Nickelodeon's 90s show The Adventures Of Pete And Pete...
At some point in the early 1990s – I forget the exact year, but research tells me it must have been somewhere around late 1993 or early 1994 – something unbearably exciting happened in our suburb of Merseyside. The rumours went around the school playground in hushed whispers: “Have the cable vans been to your street yet?” Yes, cable TV was on its way to Crosby, meaning that for the first time, a world of viewing beyond the ordinary four terrestrial channels was available to homes without a whacking great ugly satellite dish glued to the outside.
Aside from the three major Sky titans – the football, the movies and The Simpsons – by far the biggest reason we all wanted to get cable was access to not one, not two, but three channels dedicated...
- 7/21/2016
- Den of Geek
Television shows didn't invent the idea of a Christmas miracle, but they sure help remind us that come Dec. 25, there's a chance that whatever woe and strife we're facing could vanish in a single, magical instant. And while not every show has a Christmas moment – and not every Christmas episode delivers a miracle – we thought we'd celebrate the season with 15 of our favorites.
1. The Brady Bunch
We're kicking off the list with "The Voice of Christmas," a first-season episode of The Brady Bunch that frankly it has it all: Santa Claus, a church, a child's steadfast belief in the power...
1. The Brady Bunch
We're kicking off the list with "The Voice of Christmas," a first-season episode of The Brady Bunch that frankly it has it all: Santa Claus, a church, a child's steadfast belief in the power...
- 12/9/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- People.com - TV Watch
We’ve been looking back all week at the hugely influential 1994–95 network-television season, which found new shows Friends and ER hobnobbing on the same schedule with Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and The X Files. We’ve counted down the season’s 100 best episodes, presented an oral history of the first season of Party of Five, tested your Friends knowledge with an Sat-style exam, and so much more. But right now we only care about My So-Called Life, and it’s time to listen to its awesome soundtrack again, with your host, Vulture columnist Dave Holmes.In September 1994, Atlantic Records released the soundtrack to ABC’s new teen drama My So-Called Life. What do these 11 songs tell us about the pop-culture landscape of 1994, about adolescence, about the emotional world of this show (which we here at Vulture obviously agree is pretty much perfect)? Let’s put on our coziest flannel and dive in.
- 9/5/2014
- by Dave Holmes
- Vulture
He's been called a master of hip cinematic heartbreak who deals in worlds as shiny and perfect as a Christmas ornament — or, put more charitably, a virtuoso at making pathos both wrenching and witty in a idiosyncratic, individual style. You always know when you're watching a Wes Anderson film; the symmetrical compositions and deep-cut soundtracks are a dead giveaway. His latest movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, has members of his repertory-players cast (including Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson) zipping through a never-quite-was 20th-century Europe, one...
- 3/11/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Happy birthday to Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement’s most beloved, most surprising, most perfect album. Even devout Pavement fans were caught off guard by the lush weirdness of it — so devoid of feedback, so not lo-fi, so rock & roll, openly aspiring to pastoral beauty and lyricism and hippie shit like that. Suddenly these art-punk jokers turned into a real band, gushing with almost insultingly gorgeous melodies. It’s Pavement’s most popular album, yet it’s probably their least influential, since if you’re going to copy Pavement, Wowee...
- 2/14/2014
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
As much as I lamented the demise of quality album releases in 2013, the last few months have restored my faith in the bands releasing worthwhile long-players. The following are all contenders to make my year's end top ten list. And I suspect I'll find a few more late entries, as well.
"Back to the River" Lily & Madeleine - Lily & Madeleine (Asthmatic Kitty)
The teenage Jurkiewicz sisters hail from Indiana but boast a sparse, urban sophistication that feels more like classic NYC nu folk. Credit to their producer/arranger/co-songwriter Kenny Childers. Nary a weak track on their debut. The perfect Miley Cyrus antidote; share it with your teenage sons and daughters.
"Ode to the Summer" Syd Arthur On and On (Harvest)
Prog is back! I picked them as contenders way back in January; finally their debut CD gets a stateside release today! This young U.K.-based quartet -- guitar,...
"Back to the River" Lily & Madeleine - Lily & Madeleine (Asthmatic Kitty)
The teenage Jurkiewicz sisters hail from Indiana but boast a sparse, urban sophistication that feels more like classic NYC nu folk. Credit to their producer/arranger/co-songwriter Kenny Childers. Nary a weak track on their debut. The perfect Miley Cyrus antidote; share it with your teenage sons and daughters.
"Ode to the Summer" Syd Arthur On and On (Harvest)
Prog is back! I picked them as contenders way back in January; finally their debut CD gets a stateside release today! This young U.K.-based quartet -- guitar,...
- 11/30/2013
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Call us crazy, but it seems like Wes Anderson has been getting a fair amount of special attention lately. In the past two months, there’s been a new book released chronicling his career in movies, there’s this short film he made with Jason Schwartzmann, his animated film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is getting a Criterion Collection release, SNL recently did a parody of his films, and of course, his next film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is just on the horizon (trailer here). If you are a fan of Wes Anderson, what more could you possibly want? Maybe a Wes Anderson tribute CD? Would you want that as well? No? Well, you’re gonna get it anyway… Entitled “I Saved Latin!,” the 2-cd tribute to Wes Anderson is due to come out next spring thanks to American Laundromat Records. The album features many cover songs that were prominently featured in Anderson’s first six films.
- 11/21/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
We've narrowed it down to the Top 40 on "The X Factor." Now they will each perform for the judges in the four-chair challenge, which is where the mentors will systematically narrow their 10 acts down to four.
The way it works is each mentor has four chairs to fill and they fill them as they go along, but once they are full, in order to add another act, they must eliminate one. It's not like this is anything new on a singing competition show (narrowing from a few dozen to a pseudo-Top 10) but this format should prove quite dramatic.
To recap the categories, Kelly Rowland has over 25s, Paulina Rubio has boys, Demi Lovato has girls and Simon Cowell has groups.
The Over 25s
Victoria Carriger is up first, she's the separated mom of eight children. She sings "To Make You Feel My Love" with a very coffeehouse-y vibe. She...
The way it works is each mentor has four chairs to fill and they fill them as they go along, but once they are full, in order to add another act, they must eliminate one. It's not like this is anything new on a singing competition show (narrowing from a few dozen to a pseudo-Top 10) but this format should prove quite dramatic.
To recap the categories, Kelly Rowland has over 25s, Paulina Rubio has boys, Demi Lovato has girls and Simon Cowell has groups.
The Over 25s
Victoria Carriger is up first, she's the separated mom of eight children. She sings "To Make You Feel My Love" with a very coffeehouse-y vibe. She...
- 10/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
I’ve been staring at these photos of Miley Cyrus from her upcoming guest appearance on Two and a Half Men all day now. And while you might get hung up on the photo of her in cute lingerie, sitting in bed with a shirtless Ashton Kutcher, that’s not what compelled me most. Something about the other two cute outfits appealed to me on an entirely different level, and I finally put my finger on it. Miley is totally channeling all the ladies I looked up to in the ’90s! She’s got the skimpy floral thing that characterized oh so many of Tiffani Amber Thiessen’s Kelly Kapowski costumes on Saved By the Bell. And then the combat boots and punky hairstyle that remind me of the edgy feminine styles of Courtney Love, Juliana Hatfield and all the other ladies who stared back at me from the pages of my Sassy magazine.
- 9/25/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
July 22: Actor Orson Bean ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 84. Actress Louise Fletcher is 78. Singer Chuck Jackson is 75. Actor Terence Stamp is 74. Game show host Alex Trebek is 72. Singer George Clinton is 71. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 69. Actor Danny Glover is 66. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 66. Singer Don Henley is 65. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 65. Composer Alan Menken ("Little Mermaid," "Little Shop of Horrors") is 63. Musician Al Di Meola is 58. Actor Willem Dafoe is 57. Singer Keith Sweat is 51. Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 49. Actor-comedian David Spade is 48. Actor John Leguizamo is 48. Bassist Pat Badger of Extreme is 45. Actor Rhys Ifans is 45. Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 39. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 39. Actress Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity") is 38. Actress Selena Gomez is 20.
July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...
July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...
- 7/19/2012
- by www.huffingtonpost.com
- Huffington Post
From Tori Amos's dad chaperoning her at her first paid gig, to Don Letts DJing with only one deck, a host of stars recall the formative moments that kicked off their careers
The first time I was paid to play live Tori Amos
I'd been kicked out of the Peabody conservatory in Baltimore at the age of 11 and lost my scholarship because I wasn't Peabody stock any more. I had real issues that they weren't teaching contemporary composers. They said the Beatles would be gone and dead within 30 years, and no one would care. It was 1974, I was 11, and it was good to be right! My minister father was really distraught. He had these dreams of me being a concert pianist and then going into religious music. I just looked and him and said: "Dad, this music is just not moving me." He said: "Well, if you're going to go into that world,...
The first time I was paid to play live Tori Amos
I'd been kicked out of the Peabody conservatory in Baltimore at the age of 11 and lost my scholarship because I wasn't Peabody stock any more. I had real issues that they weren't teaching contemporary composers. They said the Beatles would be gone and dead within 30 years, and no one would care. It was 1974, I was 11, and it was good to be right! My minister father was really distraught. He had these dreams of me being a concert pianist and then going into religious music. I just looked and him and said: "Dad, this music is just not moving me." He said: "Well, if you're going to go into that world,...
- 1/13/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Young Adult opens in a limited release this weekend and Patton Oswalt has given a gazillion interviews in the last couple of weeks.
On the news front, last week Patton was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album for "Finest Hour" - big congrats! - and, this week, Deadline included him among the frontrunners for an Oscar in the best supporting actor category, along with - brace for a holy frak - Ben Kingsley, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Spacey, Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. From the article:
Patton Oswalt, Young Adult
Perhaps best known as a stand-up comedian and the voice of the lead rat in Pixar’s Ratatouille, Oswalt is quickly establishing his credentials as a serious actor, first in the critically acclaimed indie film The Big Fan and now on a larger scale as a lonely man whose life was defined by an unfortunate incident in high school.
On the news front, last week Patton was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album for "Finest Hour" - big congrats! - and, this week, Deadline included him among the frontrunners for an Oscar in the best supporting actor category, along with - brace for a holy frak - Ben Kingsley, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Spacey, Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer. From the article:
Patton Oswalt, Young Adult
Perhaps best known as a stand-up comedian and the voice of the lead rat in Pixar’s Ratatouille, Oswalt is quickly establishing his credentials as a serious actor, first in the critically acclaimed indie film The Big Fan and now on a larger scale as a lonely man whose life was defined by an unfortunate incident in high school.
- 12/11/2011
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
Throughout the month of December, TV Editor Kate Kulzick and Film Editor Ricky D will review classic Christmas adaptions, posting a total of 13 each, one a day, until the 25th of December.
The catch: They will swap roles as Rick will take on reviews of classic television Christmas specials and Kate will take on classic Christmas movies. Today is day 5.
My So-Called Life: “So-Called Angels” (1994)
Season 1, Episode 15
Directed by Scott Winant
Teleplay by Winnie Holzman
What’s it about?
In 1994 Winnie Holzman introduced to the world her critically acclaimed TV series My So-Called Life, a realistic mid-nineties teen drama that takes a look at a 15 year-old girl and her trials and tribulations. From the instant Angela Chase (Claire Danes) dyed her blonde locks a bright red, this teen angst series earned its place in the annals of television. Audiences were captivated by the rising star’s performance, and teenage...
The catch: They will swap roles as Rick will take on reviews of classic television Christmas specials and Kate will take on classic Christmas movies. Today is day 5.
My So-Called Life: “So-Called Angels” (1994)
Season 1, Episode 15
Directed by Scott Winant
Teleplay by Winnie Holzman
What’s it about?
In 1994 Winnie Holzman introduced to the world her critically acclaimed TV series My So-Called Life, a realistic mid-nineties teen drama that takes a look at a 15 year-old girl and her trials and tribulations. From the instant Angela Chase (Claire Danes) dyed her blonde locks a bright red, this teen angst series earned its place in the annals of television. Audiences were captivated by the rising star’s performance, and teenage...
- 12/6/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
For Juliana Hatfield fans, the release of There’s Always Another Girl should feel like an accomplishment. The songwriter’s been in a near-daily conversation with them about the album’s recording process through her PledgeMusic website and raised money by selling unique items and experiences on the site. Things fans could “pledge” for through the site ranged from a personal Skype session with the singer to the downright-weird “certified” lock of hair. These die-hards got the VIP treatment right up until the album’s completion, hearing There’s Always Another Girl a month early, and now Hatfield will see what the rest of the...
- 8/30/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
It was sometime around 1995 when I saw Jeff Buckley in concert. A friend and I went to see The Juliana Hatfield Three, and Buckley was the opening act. I'd heard "Last Goodbye" on the radio, found it to be an amazing song, but never explored him further. The show was in a dumpy little club on Landsdowne Street in Boston that closed down years ago when gentrification crashed into the Fenway area. Buckley was a quiet, unassuming guy when he took the stage, scruffy-looking, with goofy hair and a shy smile.
He blew the fucking doors off the place.
To this day, it remains one of the most emotional, arresting performances I've ever seen. Everyone in the crowd was stunned by him, and Hatfield herself confessed that it his act was nearly impossible to follow. This was a young man who was unquestionably destined for greatness. Of course, we know...
He blew the fucking doors off the place.
To this day, it remains one of the most emotional, arresting performances I've ever seen. Everyone in the crowd was stunned by him, and Hatfield herself confessed that it his act was nearly impossible to follow. This was a young man who was unquestionably destined for greatness. Of course, we know...
- 8/16/2011
- by TK
Juliana Hatfield is an authentic humanitarian with homegrown indie roots. Having minor success with the ‘Blake Babies’, Juliana found fame with her solo career. In 1992 Juliana’s first solo album “Hey Babe” was launched receiving honors as one of the highest selling independent albums of that year. Hatfield can bring it from the hard rock edge back around to a softer more melodic folky spirit. Juliana’s musical style is a remarkable contrast that has provided life to the solo artist for almost 20 years. The veteran singer songwriter has released ten solo albums with her number eleven album “Speeches Delivered To Animals and Plants”, due to be released August 30th...
- 6/6/2011
- by smurphy
- ShockYa
If you have fond memories of mid-90s stalwarts The Lemonheads, you may want to book a flight to New York City immediately. Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield, the group’s frontman and former bassist, announced today that they’d be taking the stage of local venue The Mercury Lounge to perform classic and new material along with a few covers on September 29 and 30.
"In the past when I worked with Evan,” sayeth the Juliana, “it was always in a strictly auxiliary capacity - backup singing, bass playing - but now that we will be on equal footing I think we could do a lot of damage. I've always thought that Evan was an underrated songwriter.....his good looks and antiestablishment attitude have overshadowed his skills." And, Evan reminisces "Juliana and I first met and started playing music together when we were 19. Since then Juliana has only gotten better and better.
"In the past when I worked with Evan,” sayeth the Juliana, “it was always in a strictly auxiliary capacity - backup singing, bass playing - but now that we will be on equal footing I think we could do a lot of damage. I've always thought that Evan was an underrated songwriter.....his good looks and antiestablishment attitude have overshadowed his skills." And, Evan reminisces "Juliana and I first met and started playing music together when we were 19. Since then Juliana has only gotten better and better.
- 9/14/2010
- by Wejo
- GeekTyrant
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that singles from Dio, Juliana Hatfield, Morrissey, Silverchair, The Smiths and Underoath will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. It.s already been announced that Dio.s .Rainbow in the Dark. will be featured on the Rock Band 3 soundtrack, but next week, fans can get an early taste of Dio with "Holy Diver" and "Stand Up and Shout" both from the band's debut album, Holy Diver. Morrissey will make his Rock Band debut next week as well, with .Irish Blood, English Heart. from 2004.s You Are the Quarry, his seventh album. The previously Morrissey-fronted The Smiths will also be coming to...
- 9/10/2010
- by Hector Cortez
- Monsters and Critics
A Conversation With American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones Mike Ragogna: Would it be fair to call you a pop-rock? Stacy Jones: Yeah, sure. I'll take that. Mr: You have a new album called Fight The Frequency. But first, you were the drummer for Veruca Salt and also Letters To Cleo, right? Sj: That's right, back in the 90s, indeed. You know, I'm a drummer by trade. So, I grew up playing drums, and I sort of got my start professionally playing drums. I was lucky enough to be in Letters To Cleo and Veruca Salt, and I got to play with Aimee Mann and Juliana Hatfield. I played with all the chick rockers in the '90s, basically. I guess, at a certain point, I thought I might give singing and playing the guitar a try, and that's how American Hi-Fi was born. Mr: Kind of worked,...
- 8/19/2010
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
Back on a roll following Kick-Ass and now Bad Lieutenant, few actors have had as many ups and downs as Nicolas Cage. 'People who do the wrong thing win,' he tells Damon Wise
Until recently, things weren't looking so good for Nicolas Cage. In the 90s he transformed from a geeky, twitchy presence in soft dramas like Moonstruck and Peggy Sue Got Married into the oddest action hero of all time. Unlike Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Cage was a true livewire, a psychotic, tender presence who could kick ass even while being a doting father; who could forget him brawling to the death for the sake of his son's soft toy in 1997's Con Air ("Put the bunny back in the box!"). Cage was something mainstream moviegoers and indie mavens could agree on, a soldier for hire who could be put to service by David Lynch in one of his dark,...
Until recently, things weren't looking so good for Nicolas Cage. In the 90s he transformed from a geeky, twitchy presence in soft dramas like Moonstruck and Peggy Sue Got Married into the oddest action hero of all time. Unlike Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Cage was a true livewire, a psychotic, tender presence who could kick ass even while being a doting father; who could forget him brawling to the death for the sake of his son's soft toy in 1997's Con Air ("Put the bunny back in the box!"). Cage was something mainstream moviegoers and indie mavens could agree on, a soldier for hire who could be put to service by David Lynch in one of his dark,...
- 5/17/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, ex-Pixies' Frank Black, The National, Dinosaur Jr. and nearly two dozen other artists have contributed exclusive recordings to tribute album "Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy." The 21-song set will be released via Shout! Factory on Sept. 29, with proceeds to directly aid songwriter Mulcahy, who has been raising his twin daughters by himself since his wife Melissa died in September 2008. Other talents include Vic Chesnutt, Mercury Rev, Josh Rouse, Frank Turner, Ben Kweller, Juliana Hatfield, Artists like A.C. Newman, Laura Viers and Buffalo Tom also lent a hand to a...
- 6/25/2009
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
After a Labor Day break (sorry), we've hit a pair of episodes that might as well be called My So-Called After-School Special: "On The Wagon," in which Rayanne struggles to stay sober with mixed results, and "So-Called Angels," in which Juliana Hatfield gives homeless teens a face and a pair of wings (literally). But though both episodes tackle PSA worthy topics—teen drinking/drug use and teen runaways/throw-aways—their approaches couldn't be more different. "On The Wagon" opens with Rayanne lounging distracted and bored on the couch in her guidance counselor's office. She's been sober for 33 days, the counselor tells her with that patronizing "I'm concerned for you" whine to her voice that all guidance counselors brandish with abandon. (Later on, when Rayanne asks her, "What was that word, you said it last week, for when you feel the need to, like, eat?" The counselor responds, "Hunger?" with...
- 9/8/2008
- avclub.com
Juliana Hatfield once said that happy lyrics don't come naturally to her, and her slick, mellow eighth album offers little to contradict that statement. How To Walk Away features a series of unsentimental examinations of what it means to be alone, to be left behind. In "This Lonely Love," over a sturdy piano, Hatfield sings about a love that lacks "the touch of flesh and blood." (Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs sings in the background, but his distinctive rasp is lost in the gloss.) "Now I'm Gone" is the closest thing to a full-bore rocker: Meaty guitar punches through the aural varnish as Hatfield gives an aristocratic lover the kiss-off. In "Remember November," the simple rhyme of the title efficiently expresses the resignation felt by someone filled with pleasant memories of a short, passionate, necessary affair. The song finds Hatfield playing a libidinous alpha female who enjoys...
- 9/2/2008
- by Don Leibold
- avclub.com
Jules rules! It's a sad, sad world, but this child of Nineties Modern Rock is aging gracefully on her 10th solo album.
Back in the day, Juliana Hatfield was a babe. Uh, make that a baby, as one of the members of Blake Babies.Today, she's still a babe, but now she's all grown up, and it shows in her latest music. Hatfield's 10th solo album, How To Walk Away, was released by her own label, Ye Olde Records, on Aug. 19, and it explores themes of dreams and...
Back in the day, Juliana Hatfield was a babe. Uh, make that a baby, as one of the members of Blake Babies.Today, she's still a babe, but now she's all grown up, and it shows in her latest music. Hatfield's 10th solo album, How To Walk Away, was released by her own label, Ye Olde Records, on Aug. 19, and it explores themes of dreams and...
- 8/20/2008
- by Michael Bialas
- Blogcritics
"Mom, Sharon Chersky and I exist in, like, two different worlds, okay? I can't just hand her a dish, okay. I mean, it's just not that simple."--Danielle's Angela costume also includes Angela's brain. And so we've arrived at the much-maligned Halloween episode--an episode that, along with the Juliana Hatfield Christmas Angel episode, threatens to pop the bubble of adolescent realism that is My So-Called Life. After all, real adolescents aren't usually participants in the aftermath of 1960s ghost sock-hops. Then there's the inherent dangers of doing a holiday-themed episode at all: how to sidestep the Halloween clichés. But despite the fact that, yes, Angela does interact with a ghost greaser, and the fact that Patty and Graham succumb to the seductive delights of Halloween costume role-play, "Halloween" somehow remains true to Mscl's commitment to realistic high school life—Even if sometimes it feels like an episode of...
- 8/11/2008
- avclub.com
We've always known fork-tongued publicists of pop stars routinely lie about their clients to hide the ugly truth about their mental and physical health - and now there's proof straight from the inside.
In "When I Grow Up," out this September, popular indie rocker Juliana Hatfield writes that her severe depression was swept under the rug by her p.r. machine. Hatfield, an MTV fave with "Spin the Bottle" and "My Sister" who also has appeared on Conan O'Brien's show, says that on the eve of her mid-'90s European tour,...
In "When I Grow Up," out this September, popular indie rocker Juliana Hatfield writes that her severe depression was swept under the rug by her p.r. machine. Hatfield, an MTV fave with "Spin the Bottle" and "My Sister" who also has appeared on Conan O'Brien's show, says that on the eve of her mid-'90s European tour,...
- 7/21/2008
- NYPost.com
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