By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: It gets cold here in Boston in the winter. My flannel bed sheets (I have red ones and salmon-colored ones) are heaven on the bitter freezing nights. There’s absolutely nothing better than taking a hot bath, then putting on flannel pajamas, then double-flanneling by jumping in between my warm, cozy, thick, soft, 100-percent-cotton sheets and curling up and falling asleep enveloped by flannel-based, flannel-generated happiness.
