Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Hüsker Dü - Could You Be The One If you're a Grant Hart fan, scroll down to the bottom of the expanded post for a treat. Hüsker Dü - Don't Want to Know If you are Lonely Hüsker Dü - "Something I Learned Today" Hüsker Dü - "New Day Rising (Live)" Hüsker Dü 1981 - Minneapolis -3 A great performance of a great song with horrible sound and video quality. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Pinkpop Festival 6/08/87...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
A partial list of upcoming visual arts events to feed your hungry eyes . Tune in Thursday for more arts listings. Hüsker Dü fans get a special eyes+ears treat at Heaven Gallery on Friday, with special performances by ex-Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart and Chicago vocalist/violist Anni Rossi (4AD records), as well as the inaugural exhibition of Yony Leyser's Daily Life Sucks -- photographic works that...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
This weekend - with, I suspect, inconsistent umlauting - Bob Mould and Grant Hart's oh-lets-call-it-seminal 80s alt-rock powerhouse. And, ultimately, the despoilers of the whole scene - they were the first band of their type to jump from indie to major and, by proving the business case for signing college rock bands, paved the way for major labels to beat a path to every poorly-roofed rehearsal room...
Everything's Swirling (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
I was late to the Go-Betweens party; no sooner had Ken exposed me to their pop beauty than they decided to split up. Grant and Robert both released excellent solo albums and played London within days of each other. First up Grant at the Borderline played a decent and solid set and was joined by [...]
Tuned In (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
It's August, and I'm on vacation. Let's try something a little different this week. We have the other 51 weeks a year to talk about TV: let's spend this one talking about things that are not TV. I was...
SIVACRACY.NET (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Minnesota Monthly: As unlikely a figure as Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart -- Pawlenty classmate from South St. Paul -- admits to having wrestled with the mystery. "I knew the guy for years," Hart once told columnist Jim Walsh, "and...
City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Back in 2004, City Pages columnist Jim Walsh interviewed Husker Du's Grant Hart, who happened to attend school with a young Tim Pawlenty. The whole thing is fascinating, but I was particularly interested in the part where T-Paw blows off his teacher by saying, "I'm gonna be president someday."
tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's t (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
So, rather regretfully I've started lumping Bob Mould into the category of punxthatwillnotdie(that's a euphemism--I wish immortality for us all!), though unlike, say Keith Morris, dude has moved forward and upward and on. I guess what I hold against him...
Nomadics (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Host: Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm Location: The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016 US View Map | When : Saturday, March 22, 8:00PM There will be an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the vernal equinox and with it, the return of farmers carting their green wares to the city. Proceeds will benefit Nesenkeag Farm and the New Farmer Development Project in New York. The Vernal Cabaret...
The big take over (Free subscription) | 03/16/2008
Mould's new material sits comfortably aside Sugar and Husker Du classics in the live setting.
Austinist (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Image from Grant Hart's website Grant Hart at Mohawk Friday, February 15 The Mohawk ( 912 Red River ) Indoor, doors at 9 [ info ] The iconic Grant Hart , of well-earned Hüsker Dü fame, headlines for Grand Champeen and The Service Industry tonight inside the Mohawk. Hüsker Dü , for those of you who don't remember, or are merely too young to have been a part of their revolution, were one of the most...
City Pages - Culture To Go (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Bob Mould released a new album, District Line, yesterday, and Steve Kandell interviewed him for Spin magazine. Did you know that Mould claims not to know why Husker Du songs are not available for download? "Grant Hart's lawyer was in charge of the estate." Also, he's never listened to The Living End.
The Runout Groove (Free subscription) | 12/30/2007
A bit of classic hardcore then to ease me back into my blogging seat. Released in 1983, Metal Circus was the perfect (mini)record to link the earlier, thrashier hardcore sound of the Du with the developing super-songwriting wonders that would be revealed a year later on the incomparably perfect Zen Arcade , which is probably the only double album of traditional songs I can sit through in one listen...
Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
At her NPR-based blog, Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein muses over bands that exemplify her city, Portland. She suggests Hüsker Dü were Portlanders in spirit... So, it's not just the bands who reside in our cities and towns, or who transplant themselves...
The big take over (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
Ten favorite 1992 indie-rock albums In 1992, there were lots of great guitar sounds, or at least that's what impressed me the most.
