Throwing Muses
photo: Kristen Sweder
17 articles
AUDIO
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1986
The girls and boys on commune upbringings, parental marriages, women in rock, male v female sensibilities, Newport and Boston, having children and much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 50.9mb, interview length: 55' 35" sound quality: **½
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Throwing Muses: Grannie Takes A Trip
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 29 November 1986
MAT SNOW is much taken with THROWING MUSES a faith-healing four from Massachussets. ...
Throwing Muses: Storm Troupers
Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988
THROWING MUSES' REBUILDING OF POP'S DARK SIDE IS WINNING THEM LOTS OF NEW FRIENDS. PAUL MATHUR AMBLED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO TALK TO SINGER KRISTIN ...
Throwing Muses, The Pixies: Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, Sounds, 16 April 1988
"WHAT ABOUT those Pixies – motherf***ers, huh?" enquired a grinning Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses. She referred to the previous band and no one in ...
Throwing Muses, Pixies: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 14 May 1988
BATTLE OF THE BANDS ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 21 January 1989
"I HAVE two heads." Kristin Hersh starts Hunkpapa with these words. ...
Throwing Muses: Daughters Of The Fatherland
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 28 January 1989
THEIR HUNKPAPA ALBUM IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THEIR MOST ACCESSIBLE YET. THEY'RE SOON TO TOUR BRITAIN WITH THE SUNDAYS. THEIR CARD TRICKS ARE CRAP. DAVID ...
Throwing Muses: Portsmouth Polytechnic
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 18 February 1989
BIG PAPA GIRL ROCKERS ...
Throwing Muses and Band Of Susans: Loving The Aliens
Report and Interview by Dele Fadele, Melody Maker, 1 July 1989
THROWING MUSES, BAND OF SUSANS: GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL, SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, BIRMINGHAM HUMMINGBIRD ...
Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona (Sire) ***½
Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 27 June 1991
AS THROWING Muses has developed, so have the band's imperatives. On the Muses' first album, Kristin Hersh and Tayna Donelly, the group's two singer-songwriters, were ...
Kristin Hersh: Tortured by the Muse
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, 10 September 1992
Caroline Sullivan on the nightmare illness which drives singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh ...
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, February 1995
RETURNING TO COLLECTIVE ACTION after last year's earth-shaking individual effort Hips N Makers, Kristin Hersh sounds happy to have some back-up noise behind her again. ...
Throwing Muses: University (Sire/Reprise)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, March 1995
KRISTIN HERSH may envy the commercial inroads made by Belly and the Breeders, but she'd never let it show. Having helped pave the way for ...
Throwing Muses: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, June 1995
WHEN KRISTIN HERSH leads Throwing Muses, it's what she doesn't do that scares you. Drummer David Narcizo wastes himself rolling his wrists far past any ...
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 ...
What Happened To Angry Female Music Stars?
Comment by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, 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 ...
4AD Records: Labelled with Love
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013
A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the ...
see also Tanya Donnelly
see also Kristin Hersh
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