Throwing Muses
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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
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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. ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988
"I SEE too deep and too much." (Henri Barbusse: "L'Enfer".) "Blood becomes a foreign substance." (Kristin Hersh.) ...
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 ...
Vivien Goldman catches up with the Throwing Muses
Interview by Vivien Goldman, The Observer, 8 May 1988
WITH MUCH TALK about the late-1980s being the day of the post-feminist woman, it is natural to ask: if feminist battles are won, why are ...
Throwing Muses, Pixies: Town & Country Club, London
Live Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 14 May 1988
BATTLE OF THE BANDS ...
Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 21 January 1989
WAS SITTING BULL a Hunkpapa or an Oglala Sioux? And how come one of these two strands of the Sioux nation has emerged as a ...
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: Savage housewife
Interview by Martin Aston, The Independent, 23 June 1989
Kristin Hersh talks to Martin Aston about motherhood, madness and rock'n'roll ...
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: Southampton University
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 1 July 1989
MID-AFTERNOON on a Saturday the snap decision is taken to leg it down to Southampton (wherever that might be) and find the first night of ...
Throwing Muses: Serious Shrinking!
Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 2 February 1991
Having gone 'kooky' at 14, KRISTIN HERSH now has command of the voices in her head and channels the demonic energy into making unnerving yet ...
Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 16 February 1991
THIS IS pretty much exemplary. The best band on 4AD/ SnubTV Records by several million miles have finally come up with an album that kicks ...
Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona
Review by Mike Barnes, Select, March 1991
4AD SHOULD really come clean and put Play Loud stickers on copies of The Real Ramona. ...
Throwing Muses: The Mayfair, Glasgow
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 March 1991
THE GIRL flogging copies of Ablaze! fanzine by the door got it right first time as I stumbled out trying to cope with my feelings ...
Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona
Review by Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1991
FOR SOME OF US, the Throwing Muses' 1986 debut was one of those records, the kind that leaves you feeling your life has been changed ...
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 ...
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 1 August 1992
"I DON'T have a driving ambition to be famous myself but I think the songs would eat me alive if I didn't let them go." ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Select, September 1992
AFTER LAST YEAR'S The Real Ramona, which seemed to please everybody at least some of the time, the Muses split in half. Tanya Donelly and bassist ...
Kristin Hersh: Tortured by the Muse
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 10 September 1992
Caroline Sullivan on the nightmare illness which drives singer-songwriter Kristin Hersh ...
Throwing Muses: Leicester University, Leicester
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992
IT MAY BE a tad predictable to criticise Throwing Muses for not being so good without Tanya Donelly, but there's something missing from their sound ...
Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Musician, September 1993
STROLL INTO the Dayton, Ohio, house shared by twins Kim and Kelley Deal on a muggy summer afternoon and step over a clutter of CDs, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Throwing Muses: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2003
The reuinted US college rockers get startlingly heavy at what may be their final UK appearance. March 20, 2003 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Throwing Muses/Tanya Donelly: Islington Assembly Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 26 September 2014
Donelly was in strident, declamatory form alongside stepsister Kristin Hersh and the rest of her former alt-rock cohorts. ...
see also Belly
see also Tanya Donnelly
see also Kristin Hersh
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