As if all that wasn't enough, stories that Kristin came up with for her sons while they accompanied her on tour over the years inspired a children's book, Toby Snax, published in 2007, and Hersh will be publishing a memoir, Rat Girl ( Paradoxical Undressing, in the UK edition) detailing her early days with Throwing Muses - a time in which she struggled with mental illness and figured out what it meant to front a touring rock band while pregnant (excerpts of Rat Girl arrived in periodic email installments to Hersh's subscription supporters, whose support has enabled much of Hersh's current productivity). Kristin Hersh has spent a lifetime battling music-industry sharkssexist label execs, capitalist cutthroats, gun-toting club ownersfirst in her band Throwing Muses. Her narrative voice is warm, friendly, and surprisingly funny. Volume 1: A Loon And a She-Wolf Arnica Montana Blackstone Buzz Call Me Carnival Wig Cartoons Cathedral Heat Clay Feet Cottonmouth Cowbirds. A nice additional tidbit for fans is the just-released live collection, Cats and Mice. Even if you don’t know Kristin Hersh’s band Throwing Muses, Rat Girl is a crucial first-hand account of the Eighties indie-rock uprising. Tine says, it’s amazing and organic and pure and it’s the GUTS of what we all love about Kristin. A new solo album, Crooked, is due out later this year - a follow-up to the collection Speedbath, which was released on the web under a Creative Commons license, and demos for a forthcoming new Throwing Muses collection have been appearing on the band's CASH page ( previously) Crooked has also appeared in the UK in book format through HarperCollins' Friday Project imprint. Kristin Hersh is well-known to many as a founder of legendary 80s indy/alt band Throwing Muses, as well as for her own successful solo albums and alt-punk 3-piece band 50 Foot Wave, is having a good 2010.
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