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September 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Grant Hart
Reports are coming in that Grant Hart has died. He was 56 – and his battle with cancer is over. The former Hüsker Dü and Nova Mob singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist had released a handful of solo albums too – the brilliant Intolerance could be a highlight of anyone’s record collection; it’s chock full of […]Archive
August 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? – A Hypothetical: What Musician Would You Invite To A Meal?
So there are all these hypothetical situations people talk about – five famous people you can have over for dinner; you can – apparently – traverse time with this (makes sense I guess, being that it’s a hypothetical). You can cherry-pick from the eras, have a seating plan that includes Abraham Lincoln sitting across from […]Archive
August 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Mould: Patch The Sky
Bob Mould Patch The Sky Merge Records In 2012 it Silver Age, then in 2014 it was Beauty & Ruin and now, another two-year gap and it’s to Patch The Sky – here is Bob Mould once again popping up every couple of years and punching out a mini-classic. It’s like a one-man Sugar reunion, […]Archive
July 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Mould: Beauty & Ruin
Bob Mould Beauty & Ruin Merge Records It would be churlish to call this the best thing Bob Mould has done – there’s all that great Husker stuff and the Sugar albums proved themselves second time around with the reissues – and were great the first time too. This is solo album number 11 and […]Archive
July 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit
Guided By Voices Motivational Jumpsuit Guided By Voices Robert Pollard called time on his Guided By Voices vehicle a decade ago – and then just a few years ago the band reformed, did the reunion-tour thing and in the last couple of years has pumped out around a half-dozen albums – and Pollard released this […]Archive
July 15, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Sugar: File Under Easy Listening
Sugar File Under Easy Listening (Deluxe Edition) Demon Music Group When Husker Du fell apart at the seams Bob Mould – just one half of that band’s songwriting magic – released two very good solo albums. And then it was straight into Sugar, a power-trio that sat somewhere in the middle of R.E.M. and Nirvana. […]Archive
November 7, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Mould: Silver Age
Bob Mould Silver Age Shock Perhaps it helps that I’ve been listening to a lot of Husker Du this year – more than I have before. Then there were the reissues of the Sugar albums too; I snapped those up. So I was poised for this. But it really is a return to form. The […]Archive
November 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman