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"I think people who were fans of grunge like Soundgarden would be floored by Swervedriver." Sugar and Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould picks the soundtrack of his life

Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo songwriter and musician Bob Mould picks his records,artists and gigs of lasting significance

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90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’

Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late

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"It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning. It came to me fully formed." The story of the cinematic classic that kick-started Bob Mould's second life

Bob Mould spent much of 1991 on punishing tours in a bid to salvage his ailing career - then came the song that showed him the way forward

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“It was me digging in and lightening up. Cheap Trick’s In Color was a big touchstone for that record”: His first band inspired Nirvana but sold no records. His next band finally gave him the success he deserved

How Bob Mould wrote Sugar’s classic 1992 grunge-era anthem Hoover Dam

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“When people throw around the Lennon/McCartney comparison to Bob Mould and Grant Hart, I think that’s fair”: Greg Norton believes Hüsker Dü were always going to break up, but it happened too soon

The current Ultrabomb bassist discusses the instruments that led to his custom Reverend, how a 1985 concert video got lost, and how easy it was to learn from bandmate Mould

Guitar World

“We went to Waffle House and I saw a sugar packet. Those songs went from being the third Bob Mould solo album to being by a band called Sugar”: Bob Mould on Hüsker Dü's rise and fall, and what changed when he swapped his Ibanez Rocket Roll for a Strat

In a rare interview, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar mastermind walks us through his entire career, right on up to his brand-new “give the people what they want” record, Here We Go Crazy

Guitar World

“The original blue Strat that I bought in ’88 became the ‘Bob guitar’… that was when I started reinventing the way I looked at guitar”: From Hüsker Dü’s “fighter jets” to Sugar’s “sheets” of guitar, how Bob Mould built his wall of sound

With his trusty Fender Strat in hand and at a young 64, Bob Mould is an evergreen icon of alt and indie guitar – and he’s back with a new solo album

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“I don’t remember any conflict inside the band. We were determined to grab back the reins from anyone who was holding them and do the album the way we wanted it to bedone”: Bob Mould on myth vs reality and the making of Hüsker Dü’s New Day Rising

Tension? What tension? New Day Rising found Hüsker Dü's creativity surging, setting the table for Flip Your Wig. But is it as influential as people say is? Mould is not so sure

Guitar World

“At that point in our life the party never stopped. It usually degenerated into a drunken brawl by the end of the night”: The wild story of Goo Goo Dolls’ A Boy Named Goo, the album that turned three punk kids into A-list stars

A Boy Named Goo and megahit Name turned Goo Goo Dolls in alt-rock superstars nearly 10 years into their career

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“Kurt was sitting in the bathtub with a Walkman on, listening to the song, and when the tape ended, he kissed me and said, 'Oh, finally, now I don't have to be the only songwriter in the band!'”: Dave Grohl's evolution as a songwriter

Best of 2024: “I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

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“I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”

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“The audience were either totally mesmerized or totally disgusted.” The night that Hüsker Dü played a single note for 35 minutes as an encore

Hüsker Dü liked to challenge their audience: their one note encore in Oklahoma has passed into punk rock lore

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“My main recording guitar is a 1959 Jazzmaster. I haven’t changed the strings in eight years! They’re completely dead, but I just love the sound of it”: Grant Nicholas on why he doesn’t mind Feeder being called the UK Foo Fighters – or Smashing Pumpkins

As the UK rock heavyweights return with their first-ever double album, Black/Red, Grant Nicholas checks in to discuss his love of old strings, broken Tube Screamers and fuzz – lots and lots of fuzz…

Guitar World

Hüsker Dü may have looked like a bunch of misfits, but they enjoyed an extraordinary musical chemistry: Why you should definitely own Zen Arcade

Zen Aracade was a hugely ambitious double-vinyl concept album with a personal rite-of-passage story, from youth to manhood

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"Nobody liked us because we sounded like Foo Fighters!": the inside story of the doomed Dave Grohl album no-one ever talks about

"In hindsight, I like to think we were before our time", says Dave Grohl of his 'lost' band, Dain Bramage

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