Cult heroes: Kristin Hersh – the dislocated star of the 80s US indie scene

The intensely personal racket made by Throwing Muses was partly due to Hersh’s furiously independent, feminist muse, and partly down to dissociative disorder and a head injuryWith Tanya Donnelly’s band Belly reuniting, thoughts naturally turn to one of the great indie might-have-beens. Just as you might wonder how things might have turned out if Dylan had never gone electric, the Beatles had been allergic to LSD or the Strokes had looked like the Pigeon Detectives, a certain breed ...

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