Kristin Hersh
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Kristin Hersh: Lipstick, Powder and Saint
Interview by Elaine Cusack, Guitar, January 1994
"Oh I look just like a sad old hooker!" wails Kristin Hersh as a false eyelash falls from her heavily made-up face and just misses ...
Kristin Hersh: Hips And Makers (4AD)
Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 15 January 1994
PELVIS IS KING ...
Kristin Hersh: Burnt up but not burnt out
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 21 January 1994
CAITLIN MORAN MEETS KRISTIN HERSH, the world's most intense 19-year-old songwriter. ...
Kristin Hersh: Hips and Makers
Review by Simon Reynolds, Spin, February 1994
THROWING MUSES' last album, Red Heaven, was a murky, tired- sounding affair, and it bombed. For her first solo record. Kristin Hersh sheds the rockist ...
Kristin Hersh: Strength in numbers
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 3 February 1995
That Kristin Hersh, she's a one. Actually, she's two — leader of Throwing Muses and deeply sensitive solo singer-songwriter — and three if you count ...
Kristin Hersh: 12 Bar Club, London
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 24 January 1998
KRIST ALMIGHTY! ...
Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 31 January 1998
WHERE AM I? What am I doing here? Relax... Kristin Hersh will unravel your knotted mind. ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1998
At 6, Kristin Hersh was a hippy commune kid whose babysitter was on acid. At 22 she had a brain tumor and thought evil spirits ...
Kristin Hersh: Borderline, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 19 June 1999
IN THE SPHERE OF ROCK-AS-PSYCHOTHERAPY, Kristin Hersh has few peers. Now a decade and a half into her career, she first established herself with the ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
THE FRIENDLY, LAUGHING, jet-lagged, pale, charismatic Kristin Hersh says that odd combinations of words are the only way to get her attention. ...
Kristin Hersh: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 28 April 2001
WITH HER NEW ALBUM, Sunny Border Blue, Kristin Hersh has done no harm whatsoever to her image as the Sylvia Plath of pop. While Hersh ...
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses and Kristin Hersh: The Grotto
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2003
FOR DEVOTEES OFTHE RESTLESS Hersh muse (Dido/Lavigne fans can stop reading now), a double treat. Guns N'Roses, Springsteen and Waits did it; now Kristin, who ...
Kristin Hersh: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 28 March 2008
KRISTIN HERSH HAD A TRAUMATIC 1980S. She formed a band, US indie-rock icons Throwing Muses, when she was just 14, and thereafter had to deal ...
What Happened To Angry Female Music Stars?
Comment by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 March 2010
Are there any angry women left in rock and pop? Joan Jett, riot grrrl figurehead Kathleen Hanna and others talk about where it went wrong ...
Baker's Dozen — Songs Are Syringes: Kristin Hersh On Her Favourite Tracks
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Throwing Muses are releasing Purgatory/Paradise, their first album in a decade, so Kristin Hersh met up with John Doran to discuss her favourite records (not ...
see also Throwing Muses
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