Tag Archives: Throwing Muses

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

Kristin and Evelyn

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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