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 Tuesday 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: We’ve got the ocean, we’ve got mountains, we’ve got gay marriage! And a proud history of revolutionary free-thinking: Emerson and Thoreau, the real tea partiers, etc. Also home to J.D. Salinger (R.I.P.), Frederick Wiseman, the Cars, Aerosmith and James Taylor. Video after the jump.
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Legalizing gay marriage is a good start, but still very exclusionary. Why not allow marriage between three or more people for example? It’s also probably written in many texts that the Boston tea partiers were mere everyday citizens that simply objected to taxation without representation in the British government, but in reality they were probably affluent people who just didn’t want to pay taxes under any circumstances. Much like the so-called tea partiers of today.