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Kristin Hersh - Plus1 proudly presents US indie icon Kristin Hersh performing four New Zealand shows in November.Hersh will tour Aotearoa for the first time since - buy tickets

Co-founder of Newport, Rhode Island alt-rock icons Throwing Muses (originally with her step-sister

Kristin Hersh helped found the indie rock groups Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. She has been a solo artist and the author of "Don't Suck, Don't Die" and "Rat

Duncan Seaman , May 8th, 2021 08:16 Kristin Hersh's new memoir reflects on thirty years of playing in bands and raising four boys. She talks to Duncan Seaman about resisting the corporate major label machine In the brief biography on her Twitter account, Kristin Hersh describes herself as “musician, writer, mother of four boys”. For the last thirty years the Atlanta-born singer and guitarist, known for her solo work as well as with the bands Throwing Muses and 50ft Wave, has seen music and motherhood as intrinsically linked. “One informs the other,” she smiles as she settles down for ...

“Everybody's life is boring. But if they give you 30 years to work with, you can edit out all the boring sh-t. It makes your life look insane,” she marvels. But Hersh’s life has been anything but dull. She spent her childhood running around naked in a commune in Georgia. “It was a barn in the woods for hippies. The cops would come to the door sometimes and search the house for drugs.” Her mother Crane, a special educational needs teacher, was a “nice Southern lady” (who later married Donelly’s father) while her dad Dude, a philosophy professor, would sometimes be strung out on...