Downloadable: Throwing Muses

If you've been collecting the Season Session Rat Girl tracks, Kristin Hersh has just set free the Spring collection.

I collect, I reject: Wool offers

Wool FM is an interesting volunteer-run station in New England, and they're having a fund-raising drive. Much of it you'll have to go to America to take part in, but there's three lots which you can bit for online:

Original contact sheet from photo shoot for Throwing Muses album "House Tornado." Autographed by Kristin Hersh.

Original recording notes for song "Mania" by Throwing Muses. Track Sheet with notes in pencil. Hand-typed lyrics (on an actual typewriter) typed by Kristin Hersh, with production notes and doodles from Throwing Muses. c1988. Autographed by Kristin Hersh.

"Untitled," by Juliana Hatfield. Original painting, acrylic on canvas board, 9" X 12" 2009.

All three things would make an excellent gift for a discerning person, don't you think?

Glastonbury 1989: Throwing Muses

There's not much of Glastonbury 1989 floating around online, so this will be a fairly brief section.

First, here's Throwing Muses doing Mania:


[Download: Hunkpapa]

Kristin Hersh in the UK

Tour dates just appeared over on Kristin Hersh's website
Throwing Muses
Minehead, England - May 15, 2009
All Tomorrow's Parties

Kristin Hersh
Bracknell, England - May 16, 2009
South Hill Park Arts Centre

Kristin Hersh
Gateshead, England - May 17, 2009
The Sage

Kristin Hersh
Glasgow, Scotland - May 18, 2009
King Tut's

Kristin Hersh
Aberdeen, Scotland - May 19, 2009
Lemon Tree

Kristin Hersh
York, England - May 22, 2009
The Duchess

Kristin Hersh
Lancaster, England - May 23, 2009
The Storey

Kristin Hersh
Burnley, England - May 24, 2009
Burnley Library

Kristin Hersh
Norwich, England - May 26, 2009
Arts Centre

Kristin Hersh
Brighton, England - May 27, 2009
Duke of Yorks

Kristin Hersh
Portsmouth, England - May 28, 2009
Wedgewood Rooms

My firth, my larth, my everythink

Not that it's open season on the NME right now, but our delight at hearing that the former leader of Throwing Muses is playing a gig in Lancaster Library on May 23rd was slightly tempered by the surprising change in her name:



Kristin Herth?

But let's not be too hasty to rush to judgement, eh? We all miskey from time to time. It's not like the NME doesn't know the name of one of the biggest alternative musicians of the last two decades, is it?



Oh.

Hersh shares

Kristin Hersh is experimenting with a new way of making music available; the PR team working with CASH music have (admittedly somewhat apologetically) described it as "doing a Radiohead - sort of", but it's much different too that: she's making a new track available each month under a Creative Commons licence, alongside the ProTools bits needed to remix, remake, remodel; although there's a request for payment, it's not the same thing as Radiohead's In Rainbows arrangement at all.

It's part of a wider plan, as Hersh explains:

Just to head off any potential confusion, CASH Music is not "me", or "mine". It's a group of people that have built a framework that is not meant for any single artist. I'm only the first. Look for more artists soon. The next featured artist and a co-founder of the coalition is Donita Sparks. CASH will soon be open to any and all independent artists who want a set of tools to offer their music directly to their audience for collaboration as well as financial support.

The first track, Slippershell, is available in in a number of formats and is rather fine.