Juliana Hatfield

When Amanda Palmer penned that much-contested screed about how President Trump was going to make music, at least, great again, it seemed like she was onto something. Fellow local music legend Juliana Hatfield has taken that cue for her politically charged new album Pussycat, which drops on April 28. Written in reaction to the 2016 election and recorded at Somerville’s Q Division Studios, the 14 new songs—such as “Short-Fingered Man” and “Kellyanne”—leave no question as to what side of the increasingly widening political divide Hatfield stands on. She’ll sharpen her claws for a stop at the Sinclair behind the new LP on April 23.