Kristin Hersh has a new record out. Really, you want more before you go out and get it? OK… If anything 50 Foot Wave shade it for me as the finest incarnation of her raw songwriting muse. The five songs on With Love From The Men's Room get up there in your face nearly as much as the songs from Golden Ocean did. With the Wave Hersh sings as if the words are being torn from her belly against her will while the guitars circle, roll and scour over a thumping drum. And yet the music retains [...]
Continuing our Best of 2011 coverage, here are the 12 free and pay-what-you-want recordings that have really stood out this year (and if I missed something really special drop me a note in the comments). Listen. Gold Fools by Spanish Prisoners Downloadable: Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) [d/l @ /spanishprisoners.bandcamp.com ] Exmilitary by Death Grips [...]
Continuing our Best of 2011 coverage, here are the 12 free and pay-what-you-want recordings that have really stood out this year (and if I missed something really special drop me a note in the comments). Listen. Gold Fools by Spanish Prisoners Downloadable: Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) [d/l @ /spanishprisoners.bandcamp.com ] Exmilitary by Death Grips [...]
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]
In the last ten years Kristin Hersh, the 44-year-old mother of four boys, has released four solo albums, one album with her beloved Throwing Muses, a memoir entitled Rat Girl (Penguin Books) and a whole bunch of material (one LP, four EPs, and a bunch of singles) with her post-punk outfit 50 Foot Wave, which also includes Throwing Muses' bassist, Bernard Georges. To say that she has kept herself busy is an understatement. So busy that filmmaker Jackie Weissman chose Hersh to focus on for her documentary Rock and Roll Mamas (set for a Fall 2011 [...]
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Here's a giveaway that's been very long in the posting... since Autumn, in fact, when Kristin Hersh 's debut novel, "Rat Girl" was published in the U.S. and I started putting together this little contest to mark the occasion. Life got in the way, Kristin kept planning more cool stuff I thought I'd wait for, and I kept saying "next week". Well, next week is now - time to get this very special package in the mail to one of you. Read on (and on) for details on what you could win and how to enter, as [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive On Friday night, Kristin Hersh quietly took the stage at 92Y Tribeca in New York City. Gripping an acoustic guitar with her recently released memoir ' Rat Girl ' beside her, the singer-songwriter launched into her performance, moving seamlessly between song and prose, telling stories accompanied by guitar and reading from the book, each vignette building on the last. Those who've followed Hersh's career from her Throwing Muses [...]
Kristin Hersh is an American singer/songwriter who has performed as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and who currently leads the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave. She has written a memoir, titled "Rat Girl," to be published in the USA by Penguin Books on August 31, 2010 and is co-founder of the non-profit, open-source software project for recording artists, CASH Music. She will release another solo LP, Crooked on 7/19. Check out the track list as well as sample a couple of tracks, Coals(Courtesy of Stereogum) and the live performance of Mississippi Kite above [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
Quick before the month is over, let's stop and look back and reflect on on what we were listening to one year ago. I must say it feels weird posting a live WOXY track the day after they stopped live broadcasting. There must be something we can do to bring back live broadcasts to WOXY . Let's get on that, ok? Oh, this is the March 2009 Mix. Listen. Downloadables: Power+Light (mp3) by 50 Foot Wave La [...]
After putting Throwing Muses on hiatus over a decade ago, Kristin Hersh has continued to write, record and tour on her own and with her punk-influenced power trio, 50 Foot Wave. Her bevy of flawless solo albums have included collaborations with the likes of Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, Vic Chestnutt and Andrew Bird, and her poignant, heartfelt songs continue to emanate from the innermost part of her soul. Now a solo artist for more than a decade, Hersh continues to enjoy life as an indie artist who is completely in control of her own destiny. Hersh's Live [...]
Singer-songwriter Kristin Hersch (whose Live at Lime session is out on August 18th exclusively through LimeWire Store ) was a part of history as a member of iconic '90s alt-rock band Throwing Muses. These days Hirsch remains busy playing solo shows and occassional reunion gigs with the Muses and touring with 50 Foot Wave. Hirsch sat down with LimeWire Music Blog and talked about the albums she'd want on her iPod if she were stranded on a desert island. Hirsch's answers will definitely surprise you!
happy birthday to kristin hersh ! some favorites over the years - throwing muses // not too soon throwing muses // counting backwards throwing muses // bright yellow gun throwing muses // portia throwing muses // hook in her head 50 foot wave // vena cava 50 foot wave // pretty ugly [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: 50 Foot Wave : 2009-03-12, Brooklyn [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dog Days" [mp3] other 50 Foot Wave posts at Largehearted Boy Bloodkin : 2009-03-19, Athens [mp3,ogg,flac] "Summer in Georgia" [mp3] other Bloodkin posts at Largehearted Boy Low : 1995-06-22, St. Louis [mp3,ogg,flac] "Fear" [...]
I've always been a big fan of a really heartfelt, convincing, from-the-gut rock 'n' roll scream. Roger Daltrey, Frank Blank, Dave Grohl—good musicians all, but fantastic yellers. Now, there is only one female in the Screaming Females , and a young one at that, but she can scream with the best of them. Marissa Paternoster, a 22-year-old from New Brunswick, New Jersey, heads up the trio of aggressive, Pixies-inspired punk rockers with a superb amount of confidence. Between songs, she shyly mumbles and fumbles her words, but the second the music [...]
It's been all contests and little actual content here on the 'Nac lately, and for that I do apologize (well, I'm not sorry for giving away free stuff, but still). Hoping to fix that imbalance over the weekend, but the prospect of warm weather may dash those hopes. We shall see. Here's a quick few info fixes before I'm off...Firstly, congrats to Almanac reader Penny from Cambridge, who will
By now you know the drill: we are passing along a list of FREE and LEGAL MP3s and albums (or EPs) that have come our way in the past week. They're all posted below and free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you more of what you want. MP3s Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound : "Two Birds" BEADS : [...]
Where: Music Hall of Williamsburg Oh My Rockness profile is here . When: 8pm Doors, 9pm Show Who???? Screaming Females last.fm Description: "amazingly awesome brand of punk rock" Description I saw on one of their posters: "lesbian dinosaur space rock" Pictures: speak louder than words Listen: Seriously, I just posted a new Screaming Females mp3 ... ok ok here is an oldie... Electric Pilgrim (mp3) 50FOOTWAVE a/k/a L'~ [...]
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