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	Kristin Hersh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is a noted, prolific American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave.
		Hersh has also sprinkled her lyrical canvas with concrete images from nature and the ordinary physical realm, such as apples, water, diamonds, eyes, the sea, snow, ice, rain, fire, the sun, sand, and cowboys.
		Hersh, whose early publicity at times portrayed her as a tortured artist "channeling" her songs from her psyche, has mentioned that the "angry young woman" fascination of some writers in reviewing the work of female performers has at times led to cartoonish stereotypes, rather than three-dimensional portraits respecting their intelligence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kristin_Hersh (1690 words)

	The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - Kristin Hersh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh was a surprise obsession for me; I've found Hips and Makers and particularly Strange Angels to be the two CDs I can't put down....
		Hersh mostly performed pieces from her first 3 solo albums and 2 tunes from her tenure in Throwing Muses--"Soap and Water", and "Delicate Cutters"._ Only "Echo" was played from her new rocking cd, Sky Motel, which is just as well, since she couldn't really do the songs justice without a full band.
		Kristin's delivery is an acquired taste for some, but comparison of Strange Angels with her other 1998 release, Murder, Misery, and then Goodnight, provides a powerful demonstration of the synergy between Kristin's own material and her presentation.
	www.ectoguide.org /guide.cgi?artists/hersh.kristin (6013 words)

	Kristin Hersh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hersh set the stage for her resurrection by sitting down to write songs for the first time in her life.
		Hersh and co-producer Trina Shoemaker, a friend who won two Grammys for her work with Sheryl Crow, took Kristin's new songs and traipsed them down to Kingsway Studio in New Orleans, site of the Muses last two records, to make the record.
		Hersh, distraught by the Muses' dissolution and daunted by the task that lay ahead of her, focused and plowed forward, as strong and forthright as always.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/music/99/07/08/LOCAL_MUSIC.html (983 words)

	Splendid: Features: Kristin Hersh
		Hersh played one solo show each day from Friday through Sunday, with a special Throwing Muses reunion show on Saturday night; tickets were also available for a Saturday lunch with the band and an open soundcheck, plus a farewell continental breakfast on Sunday morning.
		Kristin Hersh: Um...music comes first, and one of the melodies is like phonetic percussion and that becomes the lyrics.
		Kristin Hersh: My dream has always been to write songs and just kind of mail them out, not have to paste my picture and name to them and be talking about them.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/hersh (2830 words)

	Kristin Hersh: The Grotto - PopMatters Music Review
		Hersh has never wanted to make music that can be apprehended so directly that it amounts to little more than a marketing effort on behalf of the artist.
		Hersh is a family woman, a mother who sees her life as completely normal and somewhat uninteresting in many respects.
		What Hersh considers normal is the often-chaotic nature of her life as a musician and mother of four.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/h/hershkristin-grotto.shtml (1042 words)

	CD Baby: KRISTIN HERSH: Live at Noe Valley Ministry - from sna
		Kristin Hersh is a woman who sings, writes songs, and plays guitar, which I suppose makes her a "female singer-songwriter-guitarist," but only in the most meaningless technical sense.
		Kristin's music has a unique intensity, as anyone who's listened to Throwing Muses must know, and while her solo acoustic stuff is indeed quieter than Muses, it is no less intense.
		Kristin Hersh is an incredible songwriter (songs written for her solo performances are very different from her Throwing Muses songs), a talented performer, and a hilarious storyteller.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/hersh/from/sna (962 words)

	Kristin Hersh - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh has been a notable figure on the college rock circuit, thanks to her jagged, intensely mercurial songwriting style, her eerie, unblinking live performances, and her reported struggles with bipolar disorder.
		Hersh founded the Muses in 1980 with her stepsister Tanya Donnelly (who left in '92 to play in The Breeders and Belly) when both were only 14.
		In 1999, Hersh released her third solo album of original material, Sky Motel, which saw her move back towards the haunted rock of Throwing Muses without dispensing with the stark acoustics of her previous solo releases, arriving at a uniquely idiosyncratic style of electric pop that's both playful and somber.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/kristinhersh.html (600 words)

	Throwing Muses / Kristin Hersh discography, third edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin, meanwhile, had had a very ugly custody battle for her son Dylan (of whom the song "Dylan" is a "portrait in sounds" as she described it) which she lost, due to the "instability" of working in a touring band (which doesn't seem to have hurt Ryder!).
		The original idea was for Kristin and David Narcizo to continue as Khulli Loach, but it turned out that the name was already used by another band, and the associations with the old name were worthwhile (and, as principal songwriter and singer, she had every right to use it).
		Kristin has suffered from bipolar disorder for many years (manic depression in older terms) and, though controlled, it has provided the spark for much of her work.
	quimby.gnus.org /html/interview/ThrowingMuses.discograpy.html (2671 words)

	Great American Music Hall
		What one of a kind artists Kristin Hersh, Howe Gelb, and Andrew Bird share is a knack for writing relentlessly inventive songs, very much coming from their own worlds.
		Kristin Hersh’s solo life — her "day job" she calls it — is ongoing with five solo albums, most recently The Grotto (Beggar’s Banquet).
		Kristin: "The two of them came onstage with me for a couple of songs, which is a rare thing for me to do -- I'm weird that way -- but the sound that came out was so nice and creepy that it stuck in my head and I filed it away for future use.
	www.musichallsf.com /artist_pages/kristin_hersh__112203.html (376 words)

	PopMatters \| Music \| Interviews \| Kristin Hersh
		Hersh started exploring her compulsive musical talents in 1982, when she formed the critically-hailed Throwing Muses, a band featuring her step-sister Tanya Donelly, who went on to do a stint with The Breeders before forming the Grammy-nominated Belly.
		Hersh's anger is more subtle, more complicated, and more intangible than that of the early-mid 1990s Riot Grrrl bands or the latest Alanis Morissette wannabe, and it is tempered with an eerie calmness that is as intense as it is spooky.
		Kristin and her family will eat with the fans and then allow them access to exclusive performances, which fans are encouraged to record.] You're really willing to make yourself available to your fans in a way that no other artist I know of does.
	popmatters.com /music/interviews/hersh-kristin.html (3884 words)

	Kristin Hersh: Sunny Border Blue: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh has been a great many things: the snakecharmer, the Queen Mum of indie rock, Vic Chesnutt's biggest supporter, and fan-friendly (to a fault).
		Like anyone who spends too much time in the studio over the years, Hersh has logged enough hours tinkering with other instruments to arrive at the point where she can proudly add that liner note to the effect that "all instruments [were] played by" you-know-who.
		Diminutive, but mom-tough, Hersh casually cusses her way through a baker's dozen songs that are as personal as ever, and far less cryptic than in the past.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hersh_kristin/sunny-border-blue.shtml (522 words)

	Kristin Hersh: Sky Motel ---Ink • Blot Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh appeared on the 80's alternative rock scene at the age of 14 as lead singer of the Throwing Muses.
		With Kristin's brutally honest approach to lyricism and her band-mates' ability to amplify such thoughts with a classic rock sound, The Muses quickly gained a respectably sizable audience, both in the US and abroad.
		Currently, Hersh resides in Southern California with her husband/manager Billy O'Connell and her children Dylan, Ryder and Wyatt.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Kristin_Hersh_Sky_Motel.htm (281 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh is not your run-of-the-mill wife and mother of four.
		Hersh formed Throwing Muses as a teenager in 1983 and signed with the highly influential English label 4AD a few years later.
		With seemingly half of her comments punctuated by bursts of laughter, Hersh continues to maintain an honest, fresh outlook on the music business, family life, staying connected with her fans, and the rigors and joys of playing in a band for a living.
	www.mp3.com /story/feature_hersh.html (1376 words)

	CNN - Kristin Hersh checks into her 'Sky Motel' - August 19, 1999
		Hersh cut her teeth in Throwing Muses, which she and Donelly formed in 1983 with a few high-school friends.
		Hersh reunited with Throwing Muses for 1995's acclaimed "University," which yielded the band's solitary radio hit, "Bright Yellow Gun." But after 1996's "Limbo," the band broke up and Hersh went solo, releasing "Strange Angels" and "Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight," a collection of Appalachian folk songs, both in 1998.
		Hersh's intensely personal songs resonate with naked honesty and lyrical imagery." People magazine's Steve Dougherty describes "Sky Motel" as being "enthralling as it is unnerving," with Hersh creating "a spare but sharp setting for her unsettling, vividly literate lyrics."
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Music/9908/19/kristin.hersh (1116 words)

	Concerted Efforts - Kristin Hersh
		Kristin Hersh's solo life -- her "day job" she calls it -- is ongoing.
		Kristin was pregnant while recording The Grotto, and gave birth in mid-November to Bodhi, her fourth son.
		Kristin's accomplices on The Grotto were Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) on piano and violinist Andrew Bird (Bowl of Fire, and ex-Squirrel Nut Zippers).
	www.concertedefforts.com /artists_hers.asp (454 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Kristin Hersh
		The problem with being as consistently good as Kristin Hersh is that people eventually stop recognizing your accomplishments.
		When Hersh performs, her eyes stare through the back wall and her head weaves like a snake about to strike.
		This vibrant energy is also extended to Hersh's occasional cover tunes; Cat Stevens' "Trouble" sounds so natural coming out of her mouth that you'll wonder why she didn't record it sooner.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jun-11-01/kristin.html (337 words)

	Kristin Hersh Concert Review
		Hersh's throat infection isn't serious enough to curtail her tour, but she said it was aggravated by lack of sleep: She got stuck in a traffic snarl-up caused by a school of Phish fans who had just seen the jam-band
		Hersh's bipolar disorder, which is practically alt-rock mythology, has been both a blessing and a curse.
		But on the album's opener, "Echo", Hersh still is searching for a way to balance the instability that fires her creativity with her identity as a mother and working musician.
	www.markwarehouse.com /articles/991101_review.htm (918 words)

	Kristin Hersh MP3 Downloads - Kristin Hersh Music Downloads - Kristin Hersh Music Videos
		After the release of Throwing Muses' fifth album, Red Heaven, Kristin Hersh, the band's lead singer/songwriter, took a break from the group and issued her first solo album, the acoustic Hips and Makers, in early 1994.
		Throwing Muses and Hersh as a solo artist moved from Sire to Rykodisc, forming the boutique label Throwing Music in 1996; the label's first release was the final Muses album Limbo, which appeared that summer.
		At the completion of the Limbo tour, Hersh disbanded Throwing Muses, claiming that it was no longer economically feasible to continue with the band.
	www.mp3.com /Kristin-Hersh/artists/34363/biography.html (427 words)

	Matt's secret Kristin Hersh room
		Brad's pics of Kristin and Tanya Donelly in Vermont, August, 2003.
		Kristin live in DC, Sept. 21, 2002 long-exposure pics of Kristin performing on the Exile Follies tour.
		Kristin live in North Carolina, Sept. 19, 2002 cool pics of Kristin from the Exile Follies tour.
	homepage.mac.com /mhall600/khtm.htm (844 words)

	Kristin Hersh @ Shepherd's Bush Empire : gig review
		The word 'solo' was emphasised as we took in the set stage, decked with a chair, two guitar cases, a mic stand and a monitor amp.
		Watching her fingerwork, one supposed that Kristin Hersh would be famous for being an ace guitarist, but what makes her special live is the extraordinary range of her voice.
		One moment it sounds like it will crack and send her into a coughing fit, but twelve songs later it still hasn't done so and she is still note perfect, adding vibrato or decreasing and increasing energy seemingly at will.
	www.musicomh.com /gigs/kristin-hersh.htm (387 words)

	Kristin Hersh: Strange Angels: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly are half- sisters.
		And both have proven it-- Hersh on her 1994 solo debut, Hips and Makers and Donelly on her 1997 solo debut, Lovesongs For Underdogs.
		The appeal of Hersh's music lies in its offbeat nature, its quirkiness, and its left- of- center approach.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hersh_kristin/strange-angels.shtml (179 words)

	Sorted magAZine, Albums, Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels (4AD)
		Kristin has a potential problem in her unique vocal style and is in danger of producing music that all sounds the same.
		Kristin mixes country, folk, alternative and Cajun elements to create a rich tapestry of sounds.
		The lyrical content is typical Hersh - love, violence, drugs, insecurity and pain, but far from being depressing, there is a 'fuck it' feel to this recording where the music takes priority over navel-gazing.
	www.sortedmagazine.com /archive/magazine/albums/hersh.htm (281 words)

	Kristin Hersh
		Coinciding with Throwing Muses’ last gasps, Kristin Hersh’s first solo stabs were fairly straightforward, her distinctive keening anchored by little more than cello and acoustic guitar.
		Subsequent releases have been increasingly inaccessible — it was as if, in her struggle to articulate her pain in fresh terms, she created a language incomprehensible to anyone else.
		Abandonment and betrayal are frequent subjects: "Candyland" addresses Hersh’s losing a custody battle for her firstborn ("My son went down/ This isn’t trauma/ It’s not even drama anymore"), while "Listerine" glosses the Muses’ breakup ("How’d I trust a band who’d leave me one by one?").
	www.citypaper.net /articles/032201/mus.dq3.shtml (184 words)

	Records: Kristin Hersh's Strange Angels \| Mar 5, 1998
		Hersh, the former lead singer of Throwing Muses, definitely has the wrong idea, as she cultivates her Strange Angels theme with unsettling thoroughness.
		You'd think anyone with as much experience in the music industry as Hersh would be able to grasp the notion of melody, but that's not the case.
		In "Gazebo Tree," Hersh starts using that raspy, seething voice to her advantage; her building melody and impassioned delivery stand out amidst the carelessness of the surrounding ruminations.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxv/3.5.98/ae/angels.html (334 words)

	Kristin Hersh
		Kristin Hersh's solo work might not feature the dynamic shifts and shrill moments that characterized her recordings with the Throwing Muses, but it still has a flair for drama.
		Her voice, once emboldened by jangly punk-pop arrangements, is given room to lament and pine on her most recent album, Strange Angels (Rykodisc), with bare-bone accompaniment of acoustic guitar, cello and piano.
		Kristin Hersh, Thu.-Sat., May 14-16, the Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 928-0978, call for times.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/051498/sixpick1.shtml (138 words)

	Rykodisc Catalog - Strange Angels - Kristin Hersh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kristin Hersh has a long history with the lone voice and guitar ideal, and her songwriting shines in stripped down environs like these.
		Her songs are everyday poems sprung from a life filled with kids, a husband, a house to play in, a dog to feed, dinner to make.
		They are also romantic odes, gleeful and dreamy, spoken from the mouth of a thirty-one year old mother of three who still knows what's what and what's funny -- get kicked in the stomach by a baby just once and the world makes real sense.
	www.rykodisc.com /catalog/CatalogAlbum_01.asp?Action=GetOne&Album_ID=735 (746 words)

	Kristin Hersh : Strange Angels - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Due to economic reasons, Kristin Hersh reluctantly disbanded the Throwing Muses in 1997, claiming that the trio could no longer afford to tour and record.
		Hersh's obtuse, poetic lyrics remain a little impenetrable, yet her melodicism makes them intriguing, even for the curious.
		And for some longtime fans, that may be a problem -- Strange Angels is the most accessible album in her catalog, because her vocal idiosyncracies are tamed and the production is a little too clean.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,326806,00.html (338 words)

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