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Throwing Muses anthology
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Wednesday August 4, 2010
It’s been a long time coming, but finally Throwing Muses have compiled an anthology release. As yet untitled, the two CD set will be a non chronological overview of a quarter of a century’s music from this under-appreciated band. It’s not a greatest hits – there weren’t any – and it’s not a collectors / rarities set; it’s the personal choice of the band, sequenced like a live show. A little more work is needed before we can announce the full details but it should serve as a fine introduction to their extensive catalogue.
For those wanting new music from Kristin Hersh you should check her website and there’s also a big buzz about the soon-to-be-available book, Rat Girl
which will be published outside the USA (and with a different title) next year.
“Ultra-vivid writing and intense honesty is what you’d expect from Kristin Hersh, one of America’s finest songwriters. But Rat Girl is also a startlingly funny and touching memoir of her mid-Eighties moment as the bi- polar, pregnant, intermittently homeless frontwoman of a rising indie-rock band. It’s a gripping journey into mental chaos and out the other side.”
-Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84
And, because we can do this, here’s Throwing Muses live in 1989 playing Dizzy…
(as ever, click on the screen when the error message shows)
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlwhorM1uA