Welcome to a work in progress. As you can see, we’ve made some significant changes to the site, thanks to Jesse von Doom and Tine Hughes. Over the coming weeks and months, the new site will continue to evolve. Thanks for being here – and stay tuned.
Please note Kristin’s new CASH Music project: a series of acoustic demos for a new Throwing Muses record. More info here.
As most of you know, “Crooked” CDs are imminent. Strange Angels will begin receiving theirs well ahead of the June 11 release date. You may be wondering why we’ve pushed that release date so far into 2010 – well, this is why:
In the UK, we’ve opted to do something very different with the release of “Crooked.” We couldn’t bear to put out just another dead, plastic, CD; the UK needed and deserved something special. To that end, we’ve teamed up with The Friday Project and Harper Collins to release Kristin’s “Crooked” as an “album book.” Think of it as the most beautiful CD booklet you’ve ever seen – art photos, lyrics and essays – all wrapped up in a hard-cover, 60 pages, about the size of a standard paperback.
The “Crooked” book will contain access codes that will serve as your key to a media-rich online platform where you’ll find “Crooked” audio content in multiple formats, including lossless files, album outtakes and demos, a PDF preview of Kristin’s upcoming memoir, “Paradoxical Undressing” and pro audio stems for remixing. We’ll also continue to host fan remixes and the “Crooked” book-site will provide direct interaction with Kristin through comments and live chats: a living, portable, dynamic environment, as opposed to a “dead”, static CD. The publication date is June 11, 2010.
We’re extremely excited to bring this new idea to the UK – and fans in the US and other countries should watch this space for details on the book’s availability. We’re very much looking forward to bringing Kristin to new people, through these new outlets. We’ve done some pretty novel deals for the “Crooked” book and want to take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge Atlantic Books and Penguin USA for their help in creating the “Paradoxical Undressing” preview.
Before we go, 50FootWave has just finished recording their latest Ep, “With Love From The Men’s Room,” with Mudrock in his Los Angeles studio. Kristin, Rob and Bernie tweeted through the recording. It’s exciting stuff–we can’t wait to share it with you.
More soon!
Love from,
All of us at KristinHersh.com
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you guys rock so much.
So if I understand this correctly, the book would be “the most beautiful CD booklet” without a CD?
thanks pirutgrrrl!
hi dan, yes, you understand correctly…the book will allow you to access everything online. Commercial CDs, if you really, really want them, will be available through our online shop. The good news is that as a UK person it’ll be cheaper for you to order from the US, even considering postage.
Sounds wonderful.
Will the book go back to being called Paradoxical Undressing? (I hope so, I much prefer that name to Rat Girl.)
Yes, in the UK, the book will still be called Paradoxical Undressing and will be published by Atlantic. In the US, it’s titled, Rat Girl and is being published by Penguin. Thanks for asking…there was some confusion on that front – I hope this clears things up.
Yeah, much clearer, thanks. And I get the title I prefer. Yay!
congratulations on the new site, i like it a lot, and being a record collector i think the idea of releasing “Crooked” like that is a treat for fans. it’s always amazing to see how you are always searching for new ways of bringing the music to the people who cares.
is there any possibility of adding some more european dates (Spanish ones, i mean, *cough*, Barcelona) in June? i hope so.
Wow. I’m seriously impressed, B+K+T+J. Really looking forward to all this.
Ahh, OK I wasn’t grasping that the book doesn’t include a CD. I’m actually glad about that because between the regular release I’ll get as a Strange Angel and possibly “The Box”, I would’ve been hesitant to purchase *another* version of the album with a redundant CD.
I buy CD’s anymore for the art and packaging anyway, rip the CD to my PC (if I haven’t already downloaded it, which is easier than ripping 99% of the time) and then the CD is never used again so this book idea is brilliant. Can’t wait to hear the outtakes as I know everyone had their favorite CASH track from the past 2 years that didn’t end up on the album due to the limited space.
That’s the other great thing about digital files, you can always just add them right back in.
I like this new look a lot. It has a nice feel to it. It looks inviting, and everything is easier to find. Very nice job. I can hardly wait to find that nice surprise in the mailbox.
I’m really looking forward to reading more of ‘Paradoxical Undressing’ (I so prefer that name), and seeing all these other endeavors. The endless layering of work upon work is amazing with the new 50′ ~, the Muses demos, the Box, CDs, books. The level of creativity is astonishing, really. Thank you so much.
So, so grateful for all your generous feedback. I can see the smile on K’s face…and I can imagine the one on Jesse’s.
love the new-look site so much and delighted to hear K is pushing the boundaries of what music is – to her and us – with this latest project. simply reading about it fills me with joy!
Nice new site and I’m so excited about book, box and of course crooked! And mistery gigs in the UK too!
Take care
Sounds really exciting, I can’t wait for the book – I’m sure it will really enhance the whole experience of Crooked.
BTW will there a vinyl edition available as well as the commercial CD?
The whole project sounds like a great and very original idea; I’m really curious to see (and hear) the result. On the other hand: I wouldn’t have been sad at all if I had learnt that Kristin Hersh were to produce just another old fashioned plastic cd record. I would have bought it an listened to it a lot, just like I did with all the other cd records she’s made so far.
Wow. I became a fan after hearing Golden Ocean. Power+Light, just so…
I seem to come and go every few months, and come back here for presents and shiny surprises.
Thanks for making my life shine a bit more.
Lurker667 – Chippewapagan
I’m getting too old for all this excitement!