With The Juliana Hatfield Three, she achieved her best-charting work, including the critically acclaimed album Become What You Are (1993), which featured the singles "My Sister" (1993) and "Spin the Bottle".

[13] While still attending Berklee College of Music in 1986, Hatfield formed the band Blake Babies with John Strohm and Freda Love.

The band released four albums between 1987 and 1991, gaining critical recognition from Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, as well as local radio airplay and press coverage.

[15] Hatfield was profiled in several girls' magazines, most notably Sassy, where she addressed serious issues faced by young women in her songs and interviews.

"[17] Over the years, Hatfield's virginity became a recurring theme in her press coverage, often accompanied by speculation that she had lost it to The Lemonheads' leader, Evan Dando, who referred to her as his "friend and sometimes girlfriend.

"[18] In 2006, Hatfield sent a letter to The Weekly Dig in response to writer Debbie Driscoll's scathing review of Soul Asylum's latest album, The Silver Lining.

Before the tour for Only Everything, she released Phillips and hired Jason Sutter on drums, Ed Slanker on guitar, and Lisa Mednick on keyboards.

[23] "Mountains of Love" and "Fade Away" were later released on a greatest hits collection titled Gold Stars, while "Can't Kill Myself" was made available for download on Hatfield's website.

Produced by Hatfield, the album featured drummer Todd Phillips, guitarists Ed Slanker and Mike Leahy, and bassist Mikey Welsh of Weezer.

Almost as a reaction to the seemingly endless studio sessions surrounding God's Foot, Hatfield recorded the album Bed in 1998 in just six days.

However, this album left the rockier side of her musical personality unexpressed, so she simultaneously released Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure with Zephan Courtney and Mikey Welsh.

"[12] Billboard called Beautiful Creature "a collection of plaintive demos" and Juliana's Pony "chock-a-block with punk guitar missives.

Wally Gagel, a producer for Sebadoh and Tanya Donelly, helped Hatfield record her most electronica-influenced songs, "Cool Rock Boy" and "Don't Rush Me," which added texture to the otherwise acoustic album.

In 2004, Hatfield released In Exile Deo, an attempt at a more commercial sound with input from producers and engineers who had worked with Pink and Avril Lavigne.

Hatfield co-produced the album with David Leonard, receiving co-production credits on "Jamie's in Town" and the bright rocker "Sunshine."

[28] John Doe of the band X described the album as "a frighteningly dark and beautiful record filled with stark, angular, truly brutal songs and guitars.

[30] The release of Made in China marked the beginning of a trend where Hatfield licensed her music, selling it via her website and through a distribution deal with Red Eye.

[32][33] The album received mixed reviews, with several critics complaining that its low-key, moody nature worked against the potential of the songs.

The album was initially going to be titled Speeches Delivered to Animals and Plants, referencing a passage in the John Irving novel The World According to Garp, but Hatfield later changed it to There's Always Another Girl.

The album features covers of songs originally performed by The Who, Liz Phair, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ryan Adams, I Blame Coco, and Led Zeppelin.

[55] From her work with the Blake Babies to the present, Hatfield's music has alternated between heavy, rocking tunes and gentler, more melodic or folk-oriented songs.

She has stated that in the 1990s, she briefly tried smoking cigarettes in hopes of giving her voice a rougher quality but eventually reconciled herself with her distinctive vocal style.

[56] Hatfield's musical influences are diverse, ranging from punk bands like X, The Stooges, and The Replacements to more folk-oriented rock artists like Neil Young, whose songs the Blake Babies frequently covered in live shows.

"[57] In a 1993 interview with Melody Maker, Hatfield mentioned that her enthusiasm for the pop group Wilson Phillips apparently contributed, at least in part, to the breakup of the Blake Babies.

She has contributed backing vocals to recordings by Belly, Giant Sand, Susanna Hoffs, Aimee Mann, and Mary Lou Lord.

In 2001, Hatfield joined Freda Love and Heidi Gluck (of The Pieces and The Only Children) to form the trio Some Girls, performing alongside her solo work.

Their first album, Feel It, was released by Koch Records in 2003, featuring the lead single "Necessito," a funky affirmation of the power of music sung in a mix of English and Spanish.

Produced by Frank Smith's Aaron Sinclair, the EP features banjos, pedal steel, and other instruments typically associated with country music.

Hatfield and Matthew Caws of Nada Surf formed a band called Minor Alps, releasing their first album, Get There, on October 29, 2013, via Barsuk Records.

Hatfield and Paul Westerberg formed The I Don't Cares, releasing Wild Stab on January 22, 2016, via Dry Wood Records.