Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh: 'I knew integrity would pull me into the gutter'
Throwing Muses: Sun Racket review – intense as ever
May 2016
Cult heroes
Cult heroes: Kristin Hersh – the dislocated star of the 80s US indie scene
The intensely personal racket made by Throwing Muses was partly due to Hersh’s furiously independent, feminist muse, and partly down to dissociative disorder and a head injury
October 2015
Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt: 'I know what a broken heart is now'
The indie-rock singer used the pact she had with Chesnutt, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, as the title for her new memoir that chronicles the pair’s deep friendship
September 2014
Throwing Muses/Tanya Donelly review – intense and fascinating
Donelly was in strident, declamatory form alongside stepsister Kristin Hersh and the rest of her former alt-rock cohorts, writes Ian Gittins
November 2013
Throwing Muses: Purgatory/Paradise – review
Kristin Hersh's first Throwing Muses album in a decade is a 32-song epic contained within a hardback book, and it's bewitching stuff, writes Dave Simpson
September 2013
Giant Drag – review
Annie Hardy's wry fatalism lifts her set – along with her knack of giggling dizzily through inevitable despair, writes Mark Beaumont
March 2012
Soundtrack of my life
Lisa Hannigan: soundtrack of my life
The Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter on her operatic ambitions, her Michael Jackson obsession, and the redemptive power of Nina Simone. Interview by Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
January 2012
Tori Amos, Kristin Hersh, Anton Corbin and more recall their big career firsts
From Tori Amos's dad chaperoning her at her first paid gig, to Don Letts DJing with only one deck, a host of stars recall the formative moments that kicked off their careers
December 2011
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Review of the year 2011
This year the Books podcast has travelled from Paris to Edinburgh and from Krakow to Kolkata. Come with us as we look back at the highlights of a year's literary podcasting
November 2011
Throwing Muses – review
It's an eerie, entertaining show, although more nostalgic than trailblazing nowadays, writes Dave Simpson
August 2011
Kristin Hersh: 'I hate music'
In the space of a year, Kristin Hersh landed a record deal, attempted suicide, was diagnosed as schizophrenic, and gave birth. The Throwing Muses star talks to Xan Brooks about her memoir
Edinburgh authors
Kristin Hersh: 'I've only written one book and I didn't know how to write that' - video
Kristin Hersh talks to us about her memoir Paradoxical Undressing and the difference between performing at a book festival compared to a music festival
What I see in the mirror
What I see in the mirror: Kristin Hersh
'A magazine once did a mock fashion spread on me, with things like, "A hat your grandmother wouldn't be seen dead in." It was hilarious'
March 2011
Having children helped my depression
Having experienced depression, Viv Groskop feared that motherhood would make the condition worse. But, for her, family life has had the opposite effect
January 2011
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: Rock memoirs with Kristin Hersh
Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh – review
July 2010
Kristin Hersh: 'I let bipolar disorder colour my early songs'
