Kristin Hersh

Throwing Muses Did It the Hard Way

Greg Garry | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Kurt Cobain, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, The Breeders, The Pixies, 4ad, Indie Rock, Entertainment News
Greg Garry

The kids deserve better, Kings of Leon and Coldplay just ain't cutting it. Thankfully there's Kristin Hersh, the powerhouse behind seminal indie rock band Throwing Muses.

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13 Funny Musicians You Should Be Following On Twitter

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Mike Doughty, Neko Case, Kanye West, Funny Tweeters, Funny Musicians Twitter, Kristin Hersh, Ted Leo, Jon Wurster, 13 Funny Musicians on Twitter, Questlove, Funny Twitter Feeds, Slidepollajax, Rosanne Cash, Funny Twitter, Colin Meloy, Aimee Mann, Ben Gibbard, Amanda Palmer, John Roderick, 13 Funny Musicians You Should Be Following on Twitter, Who Should I Follow on Twitter, Twitter Musicians Huffington Post, Comedy News

We realized we're always telling you which comedians to follow on Twitter, but we never give any love to the non-professional funny people who have tr...

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Amanda Palmer on Life, Art, Music, and Smashing Paradigms: So Much is Possible, and I Want to Do it All!

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music News, Dark Cabaret, Music Industry Restructuring, Steven Bogart, Crowd Funding, Zoe Boekbinder, Jason Webley, Brian Viglione, Dresden Dolls, Bitter Ruin, Cabaret, Lance Horne, Yoga, American Repertory Theater, Evelyn Evelyn, Natti Vogel, Roadrunner Records, Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, Kristin Hersh, Twitter, Radiohead, Patronage-Based System, Tristan Allen, Cynthia Von Buhler, Entertainment News, Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukelele, Meow Meow, Kickstarter, Meditation, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, In Rainbows, Amanda Palmer, Sxip Shirey, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

The fact is, talking to Amanda Palmer can very well cause one to feel like a complete slacker, no matter how much of a workaholic you happen to be. Be...

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Kristin Hersh on Her New Book, Rat Girl

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creative Commons, Strange Angels, The Season Sessions, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Moore Brothers, Art Rock, Throwing Muses New Album, Artist-Fan Relationship, Penguin, Subscriber-Based Model, Vic Chesnutt, Bipolar Disorder, Record Industry, Rob Ahlers, Rat Girl, Acupuncture, Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders, Music Industry, Bernard Georges, Crooked, Mudrock, Cashmusic, 50footwave, With Love From the Men's Room, Books News
Holly Cara Price

Songwriter, musician, mother of four, and founder of the seminal art rock band Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh has pretty much been to hell and back and...

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Vic Chesnutt Dies; Fund Set Up To Help Family Pay Singer-Songwriter's $70,000 Medical Debt

Posted 05.25.2011

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Singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt has died, according to tweets from his friends and an announcement posted on the Constellation Records website. From t...

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Fan-Funding With Jonah Smith, Plus Chris Bell, Stephen Stills, and Manassas Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

While most of his contemporaries have the fantasy of signing the bottom line of a label contract, Jonah Smith has rejected a record company's offer instead.

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