wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
50 Foot Wave Power + Light EP At nearly 26 minutes long and with no production breaks, you’d be forgiven for initially thinking that Power + Light is an alt-rock explosion trying desperately to find its feet in a field of its own shrapnel. But give the record some much-deserved attention and the intense live atmosphere 50 [...]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
For an excruciatingly shy person, Kristin Hersh reveals a lot of her intimate details to strangers, writes Kelsey Munro.
Bradley's Almanac (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Soooo... how 'bout that New England weather? I felt the novelty wear off after about the 40th straight hour of snowfall. Yeesh. I titled this a 'fiver', but it's gonna end up much longer. Hey, no complaints outta you. File under EPIC: Kristin Hersh's rumble-rock power-trio 50 Foot Wave has just unleashed a massive new recording entitled "Power + Light", streaming in all its glory on their
The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
By Jim Harrington I just got home from seeing Jonathan Richman at the Great American Music Hall on Sunday night (Dec. 7). It was my second time seeing the singer-songwriter-guitarist (and his ever-present buddy-sidekick-drummer Tommy Larkins) in 2008. That’s not unusual (at least not for me). I see Jonathan and Tommy at least once a year, usually [...]
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
…only joking! Remember back at the end of August when videos of Neko Case singing four new songs at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle surfaced on YouTube and everybody cooed in unison? Well, expect that cooing to whip up into a howling squall of appreciation when her much-anticipated new album Middle Cyclone hits the shops on [...]
A Rubber Door (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
I always find it amusing that I gravitated to Throwing Muses in the early 90’s and never listened to the Pixies for another 10 years after discovering the Muses. Throwing Muses University (Amazon MP3) was a high point in the early 90’s indie-rock thing that was happening. Here’s Throwing Muses most known song “Bright Yellow Gun”. [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
She Keeps Bees are an unsigned band from Brooklyn and Nest is their second album.
Shaken & Stirred (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Happy Veteran's Day, everybody. We've spent it eating delish cornmeal strawberry pancakes (the dogs got their Mickey Mouse pancake, per tradition) and singing along with too-loud music (Magnetic Fields, Johnny Cash, and Kristin Hersh, thus far) and painting the front room and some assorted pieces of furniture and reorganizing. Earlier, I finally gave up on the return of VHS* (I was a hold out on cassette...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
“When they separated, Peter bent down to the two halves of the mirror and held his palm over one of the pieces. A delicious wind (the one song which is my song) lilted up from it. He felt or sensed Ricky stiffening beside him; half a tender mouth glimmered in his hand, just [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
THE Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh head the line-up of guest DJs at the Voodoo Rooms tonight. Born to be Wide kicks off at 9:15 pm a
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Paradoxical undressing, apparently, is the tendency hypothermia victims have to want to undress, threatening their lives while the balance of their mind is impaired, while they're "cold stupid". Paradoxical Undressing is also the title of this solo spoken word and music show by sometime Throwing Muses member Kristin Hersh, from Atlanta, in which she shares some of her most personal thoughts about...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
THE CUCKOO My father used to play this to me in Tennessee when I was little.
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
I'm probably alone on this, but I have yet to understand the allure of Twitter. And taking a look at what some musicians have done with the microblogging tool, I'm not about to change my mind anytime soon. Take R.E.M.'s...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Doleful Lions: "White Lotus Day" [mp3] from 7 other Doleful Lions music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Gazelle: "The First Rays" [mp3] from Sunblown other Gazelle music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Grace Potter:...
The Trouble With Spikol (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Last week I was asking for names of our favorite troubled celebrities. Most suggestions after my initial suggestions were people in the music biz, which I'd forgotten about. If we were including substance abuse, it would get ridiculous, so...
