Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:10:06 -0800 
      From: Jeff Keibel (redshift@INTERLOG.COM) 
      Subject: NEW Throwing Muses EP


The new Throwing Muses single is "Freeloader".  It will be released in
Ryko territories on January 14th.  B-Sides are - "If", "Take" (Live) and
"Heel Toe".  4AD territories are not releasing it at this time...

Rock Moms
Bust #8
Interview With Kristin Hersh
by Tori Galore

Kristin Hersh and I spoke by phone, and as we chatted I could hear the
dishes being done in her Rhode Island kitchen. It seemed to give our
conversation all the more of a "regular mom" feel. The following week
that sense of coziness was replaced by the surreal vision of Kristin on
stage at Brownie's, a sweaty, cramped dive in NYC's East Village. The
Throwing Muses' latest release, Limbo, is a deft myriad of
hide-and-go-seek rock coupled with Kristin's complex psyche. Melodic,
yet mad. Her significantly knocked-up tummy was the actual resting place
for her guitar. Her prenatal kid had no escape from the rumble and din
of music vibrating from mom's body. My mind boggled to imagine the the
womb. At the first set's conclusion, Kristin earnestly thanked her
public for not smoking. Regular is one thing this mother is not.


who will be born on New Year's Eve. I'm just beyond the sick stage now
and just into fat and happy which is my favorite part. I don't get funky
hormone things either so I'm usually in a good mood when I'm pregnant.


in an apartment. It wasn't a great time to have a baby, I don't
recommend it. He kinda grew up in a van, sleeping in bathtubs in hotel
rooms, which I felt terrible about but he didn't notice. Just to have
Mom there, that was home.


we got pregnant -another thing I don't recommend.


sensible thing to do. I went to the beach right after I found out and I
was the only person in the world who knew about this life, and I just
stared at the water and it seemed like a real life. There was a spark
there that I didn't want to get rid of.




who thinks being kind is the most important thing in the world. I had a
kind of a hippie, flighty Dad. He went out to Death Valley and listened
to voices in his head. He's our Dad, but I don't know if I would call
that raising kids.

you're raising your kids?

a kid's life. We don't let them into reality easily cause we don't think
they can take it yet. I remember not being able to take it
and having it shoved in my face.


Tofu was like junk food to us. Then you go to school and you realize
that you're a hippie freak, just like your parents. So that's what I
feed my poor children. They're bitter of course, but they're beautiful.

find yourself doing?

I know why my mother did this.


seems pretty much to be pouring the cereal and doing the laundry and
they raise themselves. I'm too busy to do much forming. They're not
excessively feminine, but they are very gentle and kind and complex.
They never went through that "grrrr" he-man thing. That would be as
freaky to me as if I had a girl who was flirty or manipulative.


drugs are for. It's easy to look at a junkie and think they're insane,
it's not so easy to do that when you can recognize the junkie in you.


else. You don'tknow how to make fingernails, but you did somehow; you
figure the whole thing's magic and you got tricked into it. And it's
like that everyday. They like having me around, but the only thing that
I really have control over is how healthy they are, and that's not a
little issue.


for that lost time and yet, I've got to look at the positive side of
that, which is that they see a woman and her family doing something with
a passion and also caring enough to focus on them, which we both do.
It's just that I spend a lot of time paying my dues in other ways, not
just motherhood. When I'm home, I'm home. I'm a real housewife.


and that's no good.

Article originally appeared in BUST magazine, issue number 8
(Fall/Winter 1996), conducted via phone by Tori Galore.

(Thanks, Mark)
Jeff Keibel
Scarborough, ON
CANADA
redshift@interlog.com