If you were out this past week, you might have caught us sneaking around performances by The Autumns, David Garza (twice), Fiona Apple (twice), Mirah, The Sharp Ease, The Happy Hollows, Great Northern, Patty Griffin (twice), In Waves, Dave Palmer (twice), Rock Insider's "Indie Schmindie" and Upground. But if you stayed home, well, then you probably didn't see us because we stopped stalking you

You're shuffling around today, hands stuffed in the pockets of your black jeans with your greasy unkempt black hair falling down to hide your face like a funeral shroud, harrumphing at passer-by like some combination of the dude from Type O Negative and a Hot Topic employee, listening to your mp3 playlist of Disintegration interspersed with various My Chemical Romance songs on repeat on your iPod which, for the day, you re-colored black (from its' original pink) with masking tape. Fear not, oh ye of little love, instead of trying to remind you that Valentine's Day [...]

Newport, RI I've loved just about everything Kristin Hersh has had her hands in, and her latest solo effort is no exception. Here's a song that goes well with our weather these days. "Winter" Kristin Hersh on MySpace

Kristin Hersh (like Money Mark ) is another one of those artists who I first encountered back in the late nineties; not through Throwing Muses (although you can be damn sure that I soon caught up with that) or even through her first solo record, but through her second, acoustic, record Strange Angels , and I was smitten with the angular rasp of her vocals and the strength of her guitar/stringed instrument set up. But I've also been impressed by her moves back into Muses territory with an expanded, switched on band (although less so with the strangely [...]

September 22 & 23rd, 1989 Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD. As a 17-year-old high school senior out seeing R.E.M. play two nights in a row on the Green tour I was as close to heaven as my adolescent life had brought me up to then. While R.E.M. was clearly the focus of my nights I remember being intrigued by the openers both nights, Throwing Muses. The next year they would release Hunkpapa which would garner some Mtv 120 Minutes attention, but it was 1991's The Real Ramona [...]
Photo-Dina Douglass It's been four years since Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) released a solo album as Learn To Sing Like A Star came out last week. I've heard two different stories on the album title. One story says the name...

Kristin Hersh at the Knitting Factory, NYC - 10/16/05 Photo courtesy of bob sanderson Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists. Today's featured selection is from Learn to Sing Like a Star by Kristin Hersh ... Kristin Hersh - In [...]
Charité bien ordonnée commenche par choi-même. Ch'est un peu le princhipe des compiles-tributes Shweet relief qui, après Victoria Williamsh, fin des 90's, che chont penchées sur le cas du père Vic Chesnutt et de chon fauteuil qui roule comme une pierre qui roule. D'accord, chette compile n'amache pas mouche... mais, chi je ne l'ai pas vendue, depuis le temps, ch'est pour cha, pour Krichtin Hersh, qui ch'en chort pluch que bien avec chette chuper reprige du chympa Chechnutt. Cha mérite bien un petit pocht. Kristin Hersh : Panic Pure (MP3)

It is the last weekend in January and it's freaking cold out, but that can't stop us. There are some great things going on in the region this weekend that you should definitely check out. Friday There are a couple of really good shows happening in the DC area tonight. The night starts with Kristen Hersh playing Crooked Beat Records at 6pm to support this week's release of her new album. If you want in on the [...]
I'm sure all of you are used me taking these extended breaks, so nothing more that I can do but apologize for it. The past week and a half i've been completely distracted with a little computer game that was released , so all my time has been sucked dry by it. With so much time away from the blog, I hope this week's edition of The Daily Graboid will make up for it somewhat. It should because this is the first major week of releases, and my goodness there were plenty of releases [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: free and legal MP3s. Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Kristin Hersh - "Snake Oil" Listen: Arboretum - "Pale Rider Cup" Listen: Radicalfashion - "Shousetsu"
Kristin Hersh's Learn To Sing Like a Star will be released on January 23rd, and is now available for pre-order at Amazon (link below). The album is her debut on the Yep Roc label, but it is just the... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
I was going to post this song a couple of week's ago, but decided to postpone it because I thought it'd make for a nice Christmas day post. Regardless of your religious beliefs, or what holiday you're celebrating this time of year, this Alex Chilton number is a beautiful song. In general I'm not a big fan of religious themed music, but if I was going to make a list of exceptions, this song would definitely be at the top of it. Kristin Hersh [...]

Happy Holidays everyone! I had to post these few tunes inspired by my finding this lovely cover of Big Star's "Jesus Christ" by Kristen Hersh Jesus Christ - Kristen Hersh Jesus Is Just Alright - The Byrds Jesus Is Just Alright With Me - The Doobie Brothers Music MP3 music

Yep Roc will release Learn To Sing Like A Star by Kristin Hersh on 23 Jan. Pre-order the album now and you can download three non-album tracks. One of them is 'Blackstone', which I've included here for your sampling pleasure. Kristin Hersh ~ Blackstone Click here to preview 'In Shock', the first song on the new album.

This is the first of my Xmas posts on pre-christian Xmas festivals (with added christmas song goodness). As you may have guessed most of these pre-christian festivals are based on the winter solstice. Saturnalia was the Roman winter solstice festival where they celebrated the rededication of the temple to the god Saturn. Saturn's staue was hollowed out and filled with olive oil (as a symbol of his agricultural deification) and his feet which had previously been bound, were unbound at this time. The binding was to ensure Saturn's subordinance to Jupiter, while the loosening symbolized Jupiter's free reign during Saturnalia. [...]

The blog bradley's almanac has posted two mp3s by Kristin Hersh (plus some mp3s by The Shins , Silkworm , Wheat , The Cure , and Jordan Jeffares of Snowden )... here . Tracks posted: "Under The Gun (Live On KEXP )" "Delicate Cutters (Live Acoustic On The Powell's Bookcast ) Oh yeah, the new Kristin's new CD Learn To Sing Like A Star is gonna be put out by 4AD (and by Yep Roc here [...]

I won't be home to give out candy tonight, so here are a few treats for your Halloween enjoyment. The Supersuckers - "Born With A Tail" (mp3) Rock and Roll simply does not get more fun than this. You probably won't hear this song at your next church function. From 1995's The Sacrilicious Sounds Of The Supersuckers . Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - "My Wife And My [...]

(photo by aislinn_niconghaile ) In 1636 George MacKenzie was born in Dundee, son of Simon MacKenzie, He was educated at the University of St Andrews, also studying in Aberdeen and France. In 1667 he became Lord Advocate underneath Charles II. During his life he was most famous for enforcing the persecution of the Covenanters, which he did with vigour and without mercy, earning him the nickname 'Bluidy MacKenzie'. He died in 1691 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. Â There, that's the less interesting stuff over with, though it is all fairly [...]