Tag Archives: Kristin Hersh
In Dreams
I lost my dreams. Dreams — daydreams and night dreams — used to guide me. In the morning when I woke, I would make sure to remember what had happened to me during the night, and that memory would cling … Continue reading
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Muses and Runaways
In Rat Girl, her memoir about the early days of her band Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh recalls how reporters would hound her with questions about the fact that the band was fronted by teenage girls. Of course Kristin’s and Tanya’s … Continue reading
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Rat Girl Power
During the 18th year of her life, Kristin Hersh went crazy, got signed, and made a baby. Continue reading
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Throwing Muses Redux
Almost exactly to the day 25 years after I first met her, I talked to Kristin Hersh recently about that very time period — for the successor to that very same paper (The Newpaper, now The Providence Phoenix). She’s a … Continue reading
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Angry Women in Rock Redux
I love this quote from Joan Jett in the Guardian: Joan Jett would go even further than that: she thinks a new revolution is on its way. “I think we’re coming back to that fertile ground where people have had … Continue reading
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