Throwing Muses - Ruthie's Knocking

What this video is

Released in August 1996, 'Ruthie's Knocking' was a single from 'Limbo', the seventh and final studio album of Throwing Muses' first run. The band — reduced to the trio of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo, and Bernard Georges — had founded their own label, Throwing Music, for the release, a significant act of independent self-determination at a moment when the major-label alternative gold rush was cresting. Throwing…

Why it matters

Throwing Muses occupy a foundational position in American alternative rock, post-punk, and college radio traditions. 'Ruthie's Knocking' represents the band's most accessible pop inflection — described by critics as surging with 'harmonic Beatlesque crescendos' — while retaining the surreal…