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August 25, 1999

Kristin Hersh Rocks Again

Kristin Hersh Rocks Again
August 23, 1999

Kristin Hersh Rocks Again

Former Throwing Muses leader Kristin Hersh checks into her "Sky Motel"
February 13, 1998

Hersh To File Daily Online Road Reports

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Learn To Sing Like A Star

The title is a joke: at forty, Kristin Hersh has a voice that's worn as hell -- all two-packs-a-day rasp and vinegary bite. On her seventh solo album, the former singer for poetry-addled alt-rockers Throwing Muses finds a fitting counterpart to that somewhat disturbing voice in largely dark, largely...

2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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With a gift for raw-nerved, impressionistic lyrics and a history of bipolar disorder, Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh had been considered indie rock's answer to Sylvia Plath long before her first solo album, 1994's Hips and Makers, sealed the deal. Produced by Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group) and recorded in two weeks, Makers, both razor-sharp and maddeningly obtuse, is still Hersh's finest...

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