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  Watch Bob Mould's Fiery 'Letterman' Performance

  September 5, 2012 – "I must be descending," Bob Mould shouts on "The Descent," but if so he isn't going gently. The former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman's new solo album Silver Age came out yesterday on Merge, and he stopped by Late Show With David Letterman last night for a blazing performance of the record's scorching, power-pop advance track). …
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  Hear Bob Mould's Impeccable Power-Pop on 'The Descent'

  August 6, 2012 – When Bob Mould played new solo song "The Descent" earlier this year in San Francisco, after performing his old band Sugar's Copper Blue album in full for the first time, SPIN contributor Barry Walters described it as "a quintessentially Mould-ian speedy and tortured love ballad." As the Daily Swarm points out, Mould has now posted the studio version of the song, from upcoming album Silver Age (due out on September 4 via Merge), and that …
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  SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time

  May 3, 2012 – To celebrate the new generation of shredders profiled in our May/June "Loud Issue," the SPIN staff decided to find some wheedle in a haystack, taking on the impossible task of ranking our favorite guitar players of all time. …
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  Sugar Look Back at 20 Years of 'If I Can't Change Your Mind'

  April 27, 2012 – If 1991 was the year punk broke, then 1992 was the year everyone tried to pick up the pieces, or, alternately, figure out how to sell the pieces. Bob Mould was not among those wringing their hands over preserving the sanctity of underground DIY culture or the tangled ethics of commercial success. His groundbreaking Minneapolis punk trio Hüsker Dü capped their historic career with two albums on Warner Bros. …
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  Best of SXSW 2012, Friday: Jack White, 50 Cent, Imperial Teen

  March 17, 2012 – Read about SXSW's best acts, then see them in action in our live gallery! Jack White: At times Jack White can seem like he's defined more by the things he rejects — digital recording, non-primary colors, music post-1975 — than those he embraces. But last night at the Third Man Records/From the Basement party at Stages, playing in front of a packed crowd that included Bill Murray and Third Man label signee John C. …
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  Watch: Husker Du's Greg Norton Joins Du Tribute Band on Stage!

  March 14, 2012 – While Hüsker Dü guitarist Bob Mould was busy moving his long-running solo project to Merge Records last week, famously mustachio'd bassist Greg Norton was jamming with some of the late punk outfit's biggest fans: the "planet's only Hüsker Dü tribute band," Chicago's Hüsker Düdes, at Chicago's Quenchers Saloon on Saturday. …
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  Bob Mould Plays Sugar's Full 'Copper Blue' LP for First Time

  February 27, 2012 – Bob Mould Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA Friday, February 24, 2012 He helped define alternative rock with hardcore/power-pop trios Hüsker Dü and Sugar, but Bob Mould is still the kind of guy who schleps his own equipment before taking a proper entrance. …
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  PLAYLIST: Bob Mould Picks Electronic, Punk & House

  July 12, 2011 – Bob Mould may best be known as the pioneering frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, but since the late '90s, the singer-guitarist has turned to DJ'ing, hosting dance parties with pal Richard Morel under the moniker Blowoff. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Bob Mould

  February 1, 2008 – Indie forefather and reformed "miserablist" Bob Mould is happy to share old Hüsker Dü war stories, but don't expect him to dwell on his past or to relive it for fun or profit. "I'm blessed to have such a nice history," he says, "but I'm careful not to cash in on it." It's hard to imagine that Bob Mould was once referred to as "literally the meanest person I have ever met" — by one of his own bandmates, no less. …
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