The four members of Throwing Muses were still in their teens when they became the first American band to sign to art-rock label 4AD in 1985. Three-quarters female, they were led by singer-songwriter ...

One of the quietly great college bands from the 1980s, Throwing Muses was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Kristin Hersh and her half-sister guitarist/vocalist Tanya Donelly with a few friends ...

The Throwing Muses, one of the most influential bands in modern-rock history, will reunite to play one concert. That’s the good news. The even better news is that the gig will take place in the Bay ...

US alt-rock pioneers Throwing Muses are returning to Australia this year, for the first time since 2009. Armed with their forthcoming album Moonlight Concessions – which is due to reach our ears this ...

Kristin Hersh isn’t the kind of artist to get sentimental about anniversaries. But it’s now been 35 years since an impossibly young, remarkably original band appeared in Boston (originally from ...

Alt-rock greats Throwing Muses are back with their first new music since 2020’s Sun Racket. “Drugstore Drastic” is acoustic but has the band’s signature, slightly sinister sound with nice touches of ...

Throwing Muses released their first album in 10 years, Purgatory/Paradise, and this weekend played two sold-out shows at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom (3/8& 3/9) in support of it. Making the shows extra ...

The book format isn’t just a unique delivery mechanism: It inspired the album’s content. Purgatory/Paradise features 32 tracks and additional music (like instrumentals), plus photography and essays, ...

Kristin Hersh, co-founding singer-songwriter-guitarist of Throwing Muses, is on the phone talking about the responsibilities that come with her job, a job she’s had, more or less, since she was a ...

More than a decade has lapsed since Throwing Muses released their last full-length album, 2003’s Throwing Muses. But if new single “Sunray Venus” is any indication, during that downtime the band only ...

The EXIT Theatre’s annual festival of women’s voices, DIVAfest was founded in 2002 as a response to a lack of opportunities for female playwrights in the theater industry. So it’s curious that this ...

The second night of Throwing Muses' Knitting Factory engagement started with two strikes against it: The band took the stage more than a half-hour late with an announcement that Tanya Donelly, whose ...