Bob Mould talks using ‘bright melodies and darker words’ to explore isolation

Bob Mould talks using ‘bright melodies and darker words’ to explore isolation

If Bob Mould has a superpower, it’s his mastery of dynamics. Walking that fine line of balancing light and heavy in volume and presentation is something that’s been his jam dating back to his Hüsker Dü days. It continued through his time in the band Sugar. It’s also infused in the fine body of work he’s churned out in a solo career that kicked off with 1989’s seminal “Workbook.” There’s plenty more where that came from on Mould’s new album “Here…

2025 Commencement Speaker: Bob Mould ’82

Bob Mould ’82, alternative-rock vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, has been selected as the keynote speaker for the Class of 2025 Commencement.  Mould grew up in rural New York before attending Macalester, where he formed the band Hüsker Dü in 1979. When the band broke up in the late 1980s, Mould created and released solo music until the formation of alternative rock band Sugar in 1992. Sugar’s first album, “Copper Blue (1992),” sold over 300,0…

"Quitting alcohol cost me friends, but quitting nicotine was much harder": Bob Mould on addiction, reconnecting with his audience and social media confusion

Following the overtly political Blue Hearts and three years of solo touring, Bob Mould is back with Here We Go Crazy, a pop-flecked firecracker that flies as close to his work with Sugar as anything h