Kristin Hersh Announces New Album 'Sugar On Blackstone': Hear "Dark-Eyed Junco"

News: Kristin Hersh Announces Intimate Australian Tour For 2026

Kristin Hersh will return to Australia this November for a series of intimate headline shows supporting forthcoming album Sugar On Blackstone, due September 18 via Fire Records. For more than four decades, Hersh has occupied a singular place within alternative music, both through Throwing Muses and her solo work, writing songs that feel emotionally raw without ever tipping into sentimentality. Her performances remain remarkably direct: just voic…

Kristin Hersh Announces New Album 'Sugar On Blackstone': Hear "Dark-Eyed Junco"

In March, Kristin Hersh unveiled the sprawling dirge “Sundial.” Now, the Throwing Muses/50 Foot Wave leader is announcing a new solo record titled Sugar On Blackstone to follow 2023’s Clear Pond Road. The new single “Dark-Eyed Junco” is out today. “Dark-Eyed Junco” meditates on childhood with her brother. “He was a ‘Dark-Eyed Junco,’ and I…

Kristin Hersh announces 12th solo LP 'Sugar on Blackstone' with new single "Dark Eyed Junco"

Fresh off last month's US tour with her band Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh is back with news of her 12th solo album, Sugar on Blackstone, coming September 18 via Fire Records.See Kristin Hersh liveShe's also shared a new song "Dark Eyed Junco," a name she borrowed from the North American sparrow to give to her brother. "He was a dark-eyed junco and I was a light-eyed weirdo," she says in a press release for the album. "We’d play basketball until…