Music
Pop music: Kristin Hersh
April 7, 2011
Kristin Hersh has made one of the year’s most acclaimed acoustic albums, but don’t expect the 27-year-old singer and songwriter to exchange her band--Throwing Muses--for an unplugged solo career.
May 7, 1994
Kristin Hersh has made one of the year’s most acclaimed acoustic albums, but don’t expect the 27-year-old singer and songwriter to toss her band--Throwing Muses--for an unplugged solo career.
May 6, 1994
Kristin Hersh’s songs can give you a lonely, sometimes desperate feeling, as if all your defenses could be washed away on her mournful waves of acoustic guitar and plaintive, keening vocal contortions.
Sept. 1, 2000
There’s no charge for the latest EP by Kristin Hersh and her trio, 50 Foot Wave.
Jan. 12, 2006
Whether edgy and electric with her band, Throwing Muses, or quietly intimate on her recent acoustic solo debut, Kristin Hersh never has been less than intense while plugging into the emotional currents that flow through troubled homes and tormented minds.
May 9, 1994
This is the 27-year-old singer-songwriter’s first solo album since she decided to put Throwing Muses, her arty, 8-year-old quartet, on the back burner.
Feb. 6, 1994
The new Hersh: ‘loud and fast’ Through more than a dozen albums with Throwing Muses and as a solo artist, Kristin Hersh’s muse has assumed myriad voices -- moody, reflective, heady, engaging, cryptic, challenging.
Jan. 8, 2004
Making rock isn’t always about craving radio hits or chasing the zeitgeist.
Jan. 15, 2004
Archives
*** 1/2 Throwing Muses, “The Real Ramona,” Sire.
May 12, 1991