Start with the laundry. Of the many times Bob Mould‘s band Sugar unexpectedly found itself at the center of pop culture in the Nineties, one in particular springs to mind for him: a 1992 festival in Belgium where Sugar were on the same bill as Metallica, Neil Young and Crazy …
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The seemingly halcyon Nineties are sounding better than ever in 2025 — Fugazi-fathered hardcore, Liz Phair feminist-pop plainspeak, and in the able hands of Hotline TNT, steaming slabs of guitar noise, Dinosaur Jr. via Teenage Fanclub circa “Everything Flows” buoyed by oceanic waves of Cocteau Twins modulations. It’s enough to …
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B y his own admission, Bob Mould is not a Zoom kind of guy, at least not in terms of the video aspect. During the early months of the Covid lockdown, he passed on doing any of those briefly in-vogue virtual concerts. “People were saying, ‘Oh, come on, you could …
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Bob Mould and Fred Armisen helped the 8G Band close out their tenure as the Late Night With Seth Meyers house band last night. Mould fronted the group as they tore through a cover of Hüsker Dü’s classic, “Makes No Sense At All,” from the pioneering punk group’s 1985 album …
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Last night, Bob Mould posted a snippet of a new song on his social media accounts: “The toddler and the sycophants/Time to say goodbye,” he sang. The inspiration for the song was evident enough. Although Mould was born in New York State, he attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, …
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Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton was meant to head out on the road in late June for his first tour with UltraBomb – the supergroup he formed with The Mahones’ Finny McConnell and UK Subs’s Jamie Oliver – before a prostate cancer diagnosis halted the scheduled shows. Now, Oliver and …
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