MELVILLE (AP) -- Liz Phair says being a married mom hasn't stripped her of her rock edge.

"When I'm a mommy, I'm a mommy, but when I'm a rocker, I'm a rocker," Phair said in Monday's Newsday.

Phair won critical acclaim four years ago with her debut, Exile in Guyville, a sexually charged album that made her one of the dominant voices in female alternative rock. Since then, Phair got married and gave birth to a baby boy.

Married life and motherhood haven't tamed Phair much, as she shows on her new album, whitechocolatespaceegg. Still, it has presented her with new challenges.

"I'm winging this whole career-path-slash-motherhood bit," she said. "But I'm proud of attempting to do what a lot of women are doing right now; juggling jobs and family and their own personal sense of being sexy, grown-up women charting their own destinies."