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TOC presents Kristin Hersh & Grant-Lee Philips

Sunday, March 25, 2018
8:00pm - Doors at 7pm

$20 ADV / $25 DOS @ BrownPaperTickets.com

All Ages Bar with I.D.

Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh is an American songwriter and author, known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50FootWave. She has released ten solo albums. Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. Hersh's lyrics have a stream-of-consciousness style, reflecting her personal experiences.

After the release of Throwing Muses' fifth album, Red Heaven, Kristin Hersh, the band's lead singer/songwriter, took a break from the group and issued her first solo album, the acoustic Hips and Makers, in early 1994. Thanks to the airplay the single "Your Ghost" received, (a duet with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe), the album sold more copies than any of the Muses' releases. Later that year, Hersh also released the Strings EP, which featured versions of selected songs from the album recorded with a string quartet, and did a solo tour. Despite her success as a solo artist, she kept the Muses going as well, releasing their next record, University, in February 1995. Throwing Muses and Hersh as a solo artist moved from Sire to Rykodisc, forming the boutique label Throwing Music in 1996; the label's first release was the final Muses album, Limbo, which appeared that summer. Before the Muses hit the road in support of Limbo, Hersh began work on her second solo album, wrapping it up in early 1997.

https://www.kristinhersh.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=igPvSBDt43I

Grant-Lee Phillips
In a career defined by risk and reflection, Grant-Lee Phillips only just recently took on the biggest gamble of his lifeand with the wager comes The Narrows.

For practically all of his time on Earth, songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips has reconciled widescreen mystery and wonder with his own experiences from a fixed vantage point. Not that California is such a myopic perch: The state whose very name implies the promise of reinvention and potential wealth encompasses such varied terrain as Stockton (the hardscrabble port town of Phillips birth), the now-fleeting bohemia of San Francisco, and the sprawling industry capital that is Los Angeles his home since age 19.

http://www.grantleephillips.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ju3isMwv4s