Kristin Hersh

Newport, Rhode Island raised and New England-rooted, Kristin Hersh co-founded Throwing Muses in 1981 and has spent four decades refusing to settle into standard genre patterns. Her solo work swings between jaggedly dissonant electric rock and spare acoustic folk, with stream-of-consciousness lyrics that cut hard. She also wrote the memoir Rat Girl and pioneered fan-funded indie distribution via…