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Juliana Hatfield, aka The Covers Album is now on general release.

The album is available on cd from julianahatfield.com and digitally at iTunes and Spotify with other digital services expected to follow.

Juliana has announced that she will be closing the PledgeMusic project for the covers album tomorrow (Friday 31 August 2012).

There's a handful of artwork and posters still available so if you want them you'd better be quick.

@phizlair so glad you don't hate it! thanks!

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) August 11, 2012

For those of you with Spotify, here are the songs from Juliana's new Juliana Hatfield album aka The Covers Album, by all the original artists*:

*apart from Led Zepagain. Also, 'Ready For Love' was originally a Mott The Hoople song, but Juliana has referenced the subsequent Bad Company version.

This was created for Spotify in the UK but hopefully most if not all songs are licensed in other regions.

In varying quality, here are the original artists performing the songs which make up Juliana's new eponymous covers album:

Teenage Fanclub - Cells

Uploaded by MrAlstec on 2009-10-15.

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Hand-made video clip. The early 90's here in Finland. This has become a CCR television TV program. I had a video editor and a vinyl record. The music is a little accelerated, therefore when at that time I did not have a digital video editor, which would have allowed a video of slowing down, You know.

Bad Company - Ready For Love (original by Mott The Hoople)

Bad Company Concert 2002

I Blame Coco - Selfmachine

Nada Surf - Fruit Fly

fruit fly nada surf high quality

Pete Yorn - Closet

Pete Yorn performing song off his 2001 breakthrough musicforthemorningafter at SPIN office. Lyrics: Oh Billie I want you so, I'm trying to meet you. Too many things they don't know, too many repeatings, of beatings, and I'm walking around your closet, I want you to say my name again.

Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Is The Night

Track "Sweet is the Night" taken from ELO's classic album "Out of The Blue" (1977)

Ryan Adams - Do I Wait

Liz Phair - Friend Of Mine

Liz Phair live at the El Rey on Friday October 8, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA.

The Who - My Wife

7th song in the Las Vegas Reunion set.

Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

This tour took place shortly after the release of Led Zeppelin's fifth album, Houses of the Holy, which topped the charts. Prior to its commencement, Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant also hired PR consultant Danny Goldberg to further promote the tour, and booked a number of large stadium venues.

Here we go.

Juliana's new album of covers - the oddly titled Juliana Hatfield, is now available as a download for PledgeMusic subscribers ahead of the global release, which remains scheduled for August 28, 2012.

This site hasn't published the artwork, title and track list before now because Juliana has wanted, in her olde worldy ye olde records style, to keep it a secret.

Although some of the arrangements will come as a surprise the chosen songs are pretty much in line with what she has posted to PledgeMusic / Twitter and the live shows in June.

1. Cells
2. Learn To Fly
3. Bad Moon Rising
4. Ready For Love
5. Selfmachine
6. Fruit Fly
7. Closet
8. Sweet Is The Night
9. Do I Wait
10. Friend Of Mine*
11. My Wife*
12. Rock And Roll

*omitted from the vinyl version.

What are you waiting for? Allez. Avante. Now.

I've been working extensively on the new Juliana Hatfield covers album. It's going to be super cool! Hooray! Songs are top secret. :)

— Peter Adams (@SLightFLight) April 14, 2012

Well, not all the songs are that secret.

If you're a pledger you can now hear what Juliana describes as "a bit of a weird mix" of Liz Phair's Friend Of Mine, in a work in progress update in the covers album project.

Pete Yorn performing song off his 2001 breakthrough musicforthemorningafter at SPIN office. Lyrics: Oh Billie I want you so, I'm trying to meet you. Too many things they don't know, too many repeatings, of beatings, and I'm walking around your closet, I want you to say my name again.

Spoiler Alert!

Although Juliana's intention is to keep the songs chosen for the covers project a secret, this doesn't really fit with the PledgeMusic 'updates from the studio' idea. Inevitably, we have been hearing snippets along the way and now some songs as works in progress.

If you really don't want to know their identity, it looks like you'll have to skim the Pledge updates avoiding the songs and the user comments, which isn't really the idea is it! Oh, and don't come to this site either. Smiley winking face emoticon thing.

Having previously uploaded a video snippet of Pete Yorn's Closet, Juliana has now posted a demo.

@peteyorn closet!

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) April 22, 2012

@peteyorn will do

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) April 22, 2012

Here we go again.

Juliana's forthcoming album of other people's songs is another fan funded affair. After the success of last year's There's Always Another Girl album, Juliana is again using PledgeMusic to organise the project.

She is offering her paintings, guitars and other miscellany as well as the music.

Juliana:

Also, a percentage of the money we raise will be donated to IMPACT Boston, which teaches self-defense and self-empowerment to people who really need it (I took a weekend self-defense course there a few years ago and it was really great and I was able to see with my own eyes how much it helped the women who were enrolled.) IMPACT offers scholarships for those who can’t afford the workshops.

The project has launched today. Head over to PledgeMusic to join in.

getting ready to start recording my covers album

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) February 19, 2012

Juliana has today confirmed on Twitter that her new album will be of cover versions.

She first pondered the project in July 2011 after finishing There's Always Another Girl, when she solicited suggestions from PledgeMusic subscribers.

More as and when...

UPDATE - MARCH 2
As expected, it's another pledge thing.

i'm going to be launching the new covers project at/through pledge music really soon--info coming later

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) March 2, 2012