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Everything is Colour: Kristin Hersh on the Return Of Throwing Muses

Kristin Hersh offers Sean Kitching the exclusive first interview about Throwing Muses’ first new album in five years, her recording process, synaesthesia, the similarities between music and stand-up comedy, and turning difficult personal situations into art (not product) that celebrates the humanity of us all
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Strange Angels: Kristin Hersh On Music & Motherhood

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
Anniversary

Driving Circles: Hips And Makers By Kristin Hersh 25 Years On

25 years after falling for its translucent charm, John Freeman looks back at the career-defining debut solo album from the Throwing Muses’ frontwoman
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Facing The Other Way: Ivo Watts-Russell & Vaughan Oliver On 4AD Records

Wyndham Wallace talks to 4AD's founder and chief design artist about the history of the label and Martin Aston's new book

Anniversary

20 Years On: The Breeders’ Last Splash Revisited

Emily Mackay enjoys goosebumps - or is that endures horripilation - on relistening to the Breeders' second LP
Anniversary

Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back on a life-changing debut record bursting with darkness, death and illicit sex and brilliant pop songs
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Counting Backwards: Throwing Muses Interviewed

As they prepare to tour Europe with their career-spanning release, the three Muses talk to John Freeman about the moments that defined one of America’s finest guitar bands and how they’ve come to a record a new 38-track album
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My Left Shin: Kristin Hersh On Art, Inspiration & Vic Chestnutt

Petra Davis talks to Kristin Hersh about her solo record _Crooked_, a new Throwing Muses album and the death of the music industry. All photographs by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net
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Vaughan Oliver: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Jung Man

Vaughan Oliver has been responsible for creating the look and cementing the visual aesthetic of 4AD records since the early 80s. John Doran meets him to talk about producing sleeve art that endures

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“Where Was My Mind?” Jenny Hval’s ‘Favourite Albums’

We asked Jenny Hval to pick her 13 favourite LPs, which she didn't, because she thinks that's a "horrible" task. Fair enough, said JR Moores, so here, instead, are 13 underappreciated records she's hoping you'll go out and enjoy

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