The four members of Throwing Muses were still in their teens when they became the first American band to sign to art-rock label 4AD in 1985. Three-quarters female, they were led by singer-songwriter ...

Alt-rock greats Throwing Muses are back with their first new music since 2020’s Sun Racket. “Drugstore Drastic” is acoustic but has the band’s signature, slightly sinister sound with nice touches of ...

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 ...

Boston trio Throwing Muses have shared another new song, “Frosting,” from their upcoming album, Sun Racket, out September 4th via Fire Records. “Frosting,” as its title suggests, is a chilly blast of ...

Throwing Muses, the long-running indie rock band led by Kristin Hersh, are getting ready for a new release sometime next year. Though we don’t have any more information on that front, the band have ...

Elsewhere, “Upstairs Dan” is altogether more dreamlike and is drenched in reverb, while “Milk at McDonald’s” is a hypnotic, trippy drone that buries itself in the listener's subconscious. On the ...

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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.

This week’s Alternative Number Ones column is about Belly’s “Feed The Tree,” an excellent song by an excellent band fronted by Tanya Donelly. Before that song came out in 1993, Donelly also co-founded ...