The title of the first Throwing Muses record in a decade is Purgatory/Paradise, but frontwoman Kristin Hersh has another name for it. “Our pet name is Precious/Pretentious,” she says with a laugh.

Indie rock vets Throwing Muses returned last year with the album/book, Purgatory/Paradise, their first full length since 2003’s self titled album. They didn’t tour that year, but they’ve since begun ...

It’s been ten years since Throwing Muses released their last album but the indie veterans will return this fall with Purgatory/Paradise on November 11 via Harper Collins/It Books. That’s the cover art ...

More than a decade has lapsed since Throwing Muses released their last full-length album, 2003’s Throwing Muses. But if new single “Sunray Venus” is any indication, during that downtime the band only ...

This might spark a heated debate in local music circles, but there really hasn’t been a more important band to come out of Rhode Island over the last 40 years than Newport alt-rock act Throwing Muses.

Kristin Hersh isn’t the kind of artist to get sentimental about anniversaries. But it’s now been 35 years since an impossibly young, remarkably original band appeared in Boston (originally from ...

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It's a sad but all-too-familiar story: The pioneering college rock band Throwing Muses released a few canonical alt-rock albums in the 80s and introduced the world to frontwoman Kristin Hersh's ...

It was a rock ‘n’ roll field trip. Stuart Bousel and Claire Rice were working on a new play about the Throwing Muses, so they decided to take the cast and crew to see the highly influential alt-rock ...

Throwing Muses get nautical on the thrashing new song “Dark Blue.” The track is the lead single off the band’s new album, Sun Racket, out May 22nd on Fire Records. “If I were a better dreamer, you’d ...

It was a rock ‘n’ roll field trip. Stuart Bousel and Claire Rice were working on a new play about the Throwing Muses, so they decided to take the cast and crew to see the highly influential alt-rock ...