Throwing Muses
One of the greatest college bands of the 90’s, Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses with high school friends. 2025 ‘Moonlight Concessions’ marked a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin’s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows their acclaimed ‘Sun Racket’ from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery.
Biography
One of the greatest college bands of the 90’s, Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses with high school friends. The band, currently consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges, pioneered a new alternative sound, releasing a string of critically celebrated albums and touring the world. Arresting masterpiece ‘University’ saw the band hitting US and UK charts and marked the beginning of a dedicated fan base that would support them for decades to come. After signing to a major label, Hersh quickly realized she wasn’t interested in entertaining the greed of the corporate recording industry, so she traded her first solo album, the widely acclaimed ‘Hips and Makers,’ for her band’s freedom. ‘I felt morally obligated to no longer participate in an industry without substance. We need real women, we need real music,’ says Hersh.
Released from her contractual obligations, Hersh was free to indulge her musical passions, including the inventive, no-holds-barred, noise rock trio 50 Foot Wave, who pioneered the pay what you want model and continues her unique brand of independence, fostering close relationships with listeners and touring across the globe with all her projects. Throwing Muses are now signed to Fire Records -a label that shares Hersh’s fiercely independent ethos – 2025 saw the release of ‘Moonlight Concessions’ marking a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin’s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows their acclaimed ‘Sun Racket’ from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery.
Touring the UK twice in 2025 with Kristin Hersh at the helm alongside rhythm section Fred Abong and Kristin’s son Dylan; Throwing Muses were also joined by Pete Harvey on cello who features on ‘Moonlight Concessions’.
“(Sun Racket) is lean, immersive, and groove-heavy, tapping the vein of hardscrabble psychedelia that defines their best work.” Pitchfork
“Sublime riffs and hair-standing-on-end vocals giving you a jolt. Throwing Muses has maintained the inimitable ethos that has distinguished their music for decades“ Pop Matters
One of America’s finest guitar bands
The Quietus
Listen
Kristin Hersh’s tough, instinctive wail, has been one of the greatest sounds in American underground rock for decades
Stereogum
Kristin Hersh is a national treasure
NPR
A Homecoming Like You’ve Never Heard Before
Paste
Press Clippings
Press quotes
“Hersh again manages to carve out a distinct sonic identity” The Quietus
“A quirky, off-kilter ode to the wonderful oddities inherent in life as it’s lived” Paste
“Hersh remains a force of nature” ★★★★ The Guardian
“Still predictably startling” ★★★★ Uncut
“Intense as ever” The Observer
★★★★ Rolling Stone
★★★★ Classic Rock
Bandcamp – Album Of The Day
