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musician, writer, mother of 4 boys

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@kristinhersh
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my two dads…my uncle and his husband, who took me in when my parents split happy Pride Month 🤍
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Throwing Muses’ first bass player, the inimitable Leslie Langston, playing bass for the first time in 24 years ♥️
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@kristinhersh
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thank you…time is beautiful ♥️
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@kristinhersh
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5 years
text from my old stoner neighbor
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@kristinhersh
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4 years
the last sentence in Shirley Jackson’s journal: “laughter is possible, laughter is possible, laughter is possible”
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@kristinhersh
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with my firstborn’s firstborn 🤍
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@kristinhersh
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1 year
starting a new Throwing Muses record…thank you, Strangels
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2 years
my son Doony and I are playing on the same bill at SXSW this year
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@kristinhersh
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these 4 boys are the best songs I’ve ever written
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me, age 14, with the Equal Rights Amendment on my t-shirt…maybe someday this will be International Humans’ Day #InternationalWomensDay
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@kristinhersh
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6 years
Michael Stipe, who sang backing vocals from the audience last night: “This is all necessary...all of it.”
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@kristinhersh
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I’m very, very shy, don’t like to attract attention or even be noticed; I’ve never had any ambition beyond making the next song what it should be and my music is not for everyone...the fact that someone like me can record is a miracle; thank you, Strange Angels
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@kristinhersh
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4 months
happy Hips day 🩵
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@kristinhersh
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For those asking about Throwing Muses, we never broke up; we’re still working. I traded my first solo record for our contractual freedom, not wanting to be part of an industry that objectifies women and sells product instead of music. TM live before releasing 2020’s “Sun Racket”
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my on-the-spectrum son: “we are the people who won’t lie and can’t be lied to, who won’t sell and can’t be sold to…this world needs us”
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I’d kill for this guitar sound
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Malawian musician @Gasper_Nali playing his homemade instrument, the Babatoni.
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playing tourist with my beautiful kids…thank you, Australia, you’re beautiful too
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happy birthday, University…recorded here in New Orleans, it was Throwing Muses’ biggest album and our first national hit, “Bright Yellow Gun” (which was also our best blacklisted video *ever*)
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@kristinhersh
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back in the studio with @throwingmuses
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Hips and Makers expanded anniversary edition @4AD_Official
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@kristinhersh
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9 months
apparently, I died *again*
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happy birthday, Sunny Border Blue
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touring Ireland, UK, Australia and NZ this autumn…US and European dates in the spring
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6 years
Enthusiastic Man in LAX: “You’re Kristin Hersh! From the nineties!” me: “I’m also a present day...person” him: “I LOVE THE NINETIES!”
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shooting a video…sad proof that I’m not actually invisible
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taking a picture of my own books in a shop window…hashtag no shame whatsoever
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@kristinhersh
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3 years
approx. 50 million years ago
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Melody Maker OTD 1989
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with the firstborn’s firstborn
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4 years
helped a little neighbor girl round up her lost chickens...her: “I don’t know what your job is, Kris, but you’re really good at tricking chickens”
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@kristinhersh
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3 years
my son on his cell phone: “no, my mom’s not gonna play your prom, stop asking”
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soundcheck
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morning xo
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5 years
text from my son
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with my boy, my dad and my dog
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at my publisher’s warehouse in Austin, signing a gazillion books ⁦ @UTexasPress
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Throwing Muses in the studio...lived most of my life with these two at my side
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@kristinhersh
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happy new year from all three recording entities: 50 Foot Wave, Throwing Muses and KH 🤍
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my first bass player, Leslie, sent me this quote a while back, saying, “this is why we left. she saw the ugliness 30 years before we saw it, and now 30 years later, they still sell narcissism, exhibitionism and product. it’s way better in our world of music, humanity and love”
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my editor, on my new book: “this is easily one of the strangest books I’ve ever read” me: “but it’s a memoir...that’s my life” him: “this is my point”
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me, doing another BBC morning show at bonkers o’clock California time and claiming to be “up”
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@kristinhersh
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with my son, my dad and my dog
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6 years
photographer, who just found out I’m fifty years old: “I thought you were thirty and hungover”
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the BBC closed the reptile house at the London Zoo so we could do an interview inside with all the snakes…when I whine about touring, remind me that sometimes things like *this* happen
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first single “Staring Into the Sun”from the new 50 Foot Wave album, Black Pearl, coming in Feb
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left on tour 6 months ago, finally home…now I’m gonna bake 6 months’ worth of bread in one afternoon
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@kristinhersh
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4 years
photographer: “can you make a *different* face? the objective of a photo shoot isn’t really to show how much the subject hates photo shoots”
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@kristinhersh
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my son Bo can catch birds out of the air; he’s done this since he was little…and I swear, the birds don’t seem to mind
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Rolling Stone writer: “If shy people like us have to learn extroversion—like me doing interviews and you playing shows—then maybe show-offs should also learn to be quiet sometimes”
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@kristinhersh
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back to work on the new ⁦ @throwingmuses ⁩ record
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my son: “is music why you never yell at US?”
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thanks to all who came out to Rough Trade East today, that was krayzee…and truly touching
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5 years
my son: “have you seen my bible? I’ve looked everywhere, don’t know what I did with it” me: “your bible?” him: “I can’t find it anywhere” me: “I didn’t know you had a bible” him: “yeah...kick drum slides all over the place without it”
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@kristinhersh
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6 years
I don’t feel emotionally prepared to meet my juice’s expectations of me this morning
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in London for rehearsals
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“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven” — Desmond Tutu
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3 years
eleven years today...merry christmas, Vic, wherever you are
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1 year
my son, pointing at the crackers, bananas and nuts in my grocery basket: “everything you’re buying means crazy”
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@kristinhersh
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4 years
had to take two “fucks” out of a song for radio, so I replaced the vocal line with a guitar played through these (really)
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@kristinhersh
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6 years
more excited about this than the photo implies @RobertSmith
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my old bass player, Leslie, grew these beautiful flowers that look just like her...like some Greek myth where a mortal woman marries the god of big flowers and these are her children
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this amazing, beautiful human, the original Thrown Muse…my friend and hero since I was a teenager
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that’s EXACTLY why I woke up today
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happy birthday, Drummer Dave
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Italy likes encores 🇮🇹
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2 years
hashtag mother of the year
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6 years
email from Billboard Magazine: your record is charting and we don’t know who you are...please advise (also, can we have one?)
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email from my record company
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a friend who used to bring Birds of Paradise to the studio every morning passed away last night…today these flowers are everywhere I look ⭐️
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5 years
next 5 record titles: done
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4 years
Michael Stipe: “Sometimes we just have to hide out for a while” with me and ⁦ @GrantLeeTweets ⁩ last year
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me and Tea at Fort Apache with Spot the Dalmatian via @TanyaDonelly
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that’s *exactly* why I woke up today
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another homeless friend now has a place to live; so happy, we’re both cryin…these two have been camping on the levee for years
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6 years
my Sunday is now spoken for
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e mail from The Cure’s Robert Smith...this is gonna replace “in bed” as my fortune cookie addendum
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on the streetcar with my boy Wy
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my son: “you’re a nice lady, I’m just scared your *arms* are gonna kill me”
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happy new year xo
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4 years
the digital download of Throwing Muses’ new “Sun Racket” will be available June 22
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in my head, I’m gentle and happy...on my face? I’m running for office and I’m going to kill you
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way better album title
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back in the UK
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2 years
walking and talking again…thank you for your kindness and patience 📷 50 Foot Moose
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with my son, my dad and my ghost dog
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booking studio time for new Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave records…thank you, Strange Angels
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today’s “can I keep him, Mom?”
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5 years
BBC session - I love being in this part of the world, where they call you “brilliant” and “my love” no matter what you do...we should all be that graceful
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my son: “did you consider your own shyness at ALL before making this career choice?”
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management: “Kris...if you don’t stop ‘forgetting’ to do a photo shoot, we’ll start ‘forgetting’ not to use the Cruella de Vil’ shot”
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with REM’s @remhq Mike Mills @m_millsey backstage at the @40WattAthens
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