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Oct 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield is releasing a new album where she covers the songs of The Police, the fittingly titled Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police, on November 15 via American Laundromat. Now she has announced some new 2020 tour dates. They are described as the first leg of her 2020 tour and happen in January and February. Check them all out below.

Previously Hatfield shared the album’s first single, a cover of “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.” Then she shared another track from the album, a cover of The Police’s “Next to You.”

The album is the next step in Hatfield’s covers project, in which she plans “to go deep into covering artists that were important to me in my formative years,” as she puts it in a press release. The first installment was 2018’s Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John, although in between she also released an album of originals, 2019’s Weird.

Hatfield self-produced Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police and played most of the instruments on the album, save for a little help from Chris Anzalone (Roomful of Blues) and Ed Valauskas (The Gravel Pit).

“I listened to a lot of The Police when I was preparing and making this album and their recordings are as refreshing and exciting as ever,” Hatfield said in a previous press release. “I hope that my interpretations of these songs can inspire people to keep loving The Police like I did, and still do.”

Of the tracklist, Hatfield said in the press release: “The songs I’ve chosen seem to resonate in the present moment. ‘Rehumanize Yourself,’ ‘Landlord,’ and ‘Murder By Numbers’ explore ugly kinds of nationalism, abuses of power, and the mendacity of large swaths of the ruling class. And then there are the timeless, relatable psychodramas: ‘Every Breath You Take,’ ‘Can’t Stand Losing You,’ and ‘Canary in a Coalmine.’”

Read our Self-Portrait feature with Juliana Hatfield.

Juliana Hatfield Tour Dates:

1/16 Evanston, IL @ S.P.A.C.E.
1/17 Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
1/18 Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
1/19 Birmingham, AL @ Workplay Theater
1/21 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre
1/22 Austin, TX @3Ten at ACL Live
1/24 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
1/25 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s
1/27 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex
1/28 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
1/30 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
2/01 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern

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