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Watch Bob Mould Jam Hüsker Dü Hit ‘I Apologize’ with Fred Armisen
Bob Mould and Fred Armisen performed the Hüsker Dü hit “I Apologize” at this year’s Hardly Strictly Business festival. The rocker and comedian duo blasted right into their performance, alone with their guitars playing to an empty venue. Like two classic rock-loving dads practicing in a garage, Mould and Armisen’s passion for music carried their performance, making it a remarkable, intimate jam session. “I was thrilled when the Hardly Strictly folks asked me to perform for this year’s online series,” Mould said in a statement. “They wondered if I had a colleague who might be able to help out on a few songs, and I immediately thought of my good friend, Fred Armisen — he wrote the foreword for Distortion — and fortunately he was available on ‘tape day.’ Fred drove up from Los Angeles, we rehe...
The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one either. Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a “heat index” or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that. In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the “we...
Bob Mould Tackles Religion in ‘Forecast of Rain’
Bob Mould is back with another new song from his upcoming album, Blue Hearts, which is due out this fall. Entitled “Forecast of Rain,” the Mould, also a member of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, accompanied the release with a lyric video that also shows him singing along to the song. Mould previously released “American Crisis” last month. Mould said his upcoming 14-track album — which he produced at Chicago’s Electrical Audio with engineer Beau Sorenson — “the catchiest batch of protest songs I’ve ever written in one sitting.” Here’s a statement from the singer/songwriter regarding the song: “As a child, my mother took me to Sunday Mass. I’ve written many songs around religion. In the 2000s, I went back to the Catholic Church for three years – but I did not find my place. “I recognize the import...
