Throwing Muses

As Throwing Muses has developed, so have the band's imperatives. On the Muses' first
album, Kristin Hersh and Tayna Donelly, the group's two singer-songwriters, were barely
post-adolescent girls trying to command the hormonal swirl of their lives: "Fuck you, stand
up!" they bark in a militant moment. On Hunkpapa, from 1989, the Muses realized that
feminism can embrace women's "weaknesses," as well as be a call to action: "Fall... More >