#Husker Du

[meetmeinthesandbox]

SST

[aladdinstardust]

vintage concert posters pt. 2

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Hüsker Dü (1983)

Mavericks, Boston, MA (1983-04-23)

© Kathy Chapman

[ourladyofomega]

Butthole Surfers: “Boiled Dove”

Einstürzende Neubauten: “Adler Kommt Später”

Diamanda Galás: "Solo Live In Amsterdam”

William S. Burroughs: "Words Of Advice / Kim Like The Great Gatsby”

Swans: "Anything For You (Hang Me)”

John Giorno Band: "Sucking Mud”

Chad & Sudan: "Cheap Energy”

Tom Waits: "The Pontiac”

Chris Stein: "Indra (For Brion Gysin)”

Nick Cave: "The Altra Virago Or The Vargus Barking Spider”

Hüsker Dü: "Won’t Change”

David Johansen: "Johnsonius”

Cabaret Voltaire: "Dead Man’s Shoes”

🖌️: Gary Panter

[napunk-history]

Glen E. Friedman: My Rules (1982)

Hüsker Dü

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

With the music of Bob Dylan coming up here on Sunday and Monday, I thought I would give everyone an alternative Bob on Saturday. Alternative, as in one of the most influential artists in Alternative Rock - Bob Mould. He first blazed a trail with Husker Du by bringing melody into Hardcore Punk. His solo music found its way into heavy rotation on MTVs alternative music show 120 Minutes. His band Sugar continued that and added some wonderful pop-punk tunes to his discography. He even spent some time doing electronic music. He's still at it, still rocking, touring, and releasing new music. If you don't know who I am talking about (shame on you!) check out some of the tunes here Saturday, 7/22/2023. - this message is brought to you by a lifetime music nerd - Tim (@big-low-t)

[gotankgo]

1982 - Madison, Wisconsin

[bestfuckinmusic]

Hüsker Dü - Everything Falls Apart - 1983

One of Husker Du’s more “obvious” hardcore records, fast and loud and awesome!

[meetmeinthesandbox]

Bob Mould rocking the flying V !

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Sonic Youth - Elysée Montmarte, Paris, France, June 17, 1987

Come on, get in the car! We're careening through the #SonicSummer, brothers and sisters! And speaking of sisters ... the band released Sister on June 1, 1987 — just a few weeks prior to this Paris gig, which was a double-bill with their former label mates Hüsker Dü. SY still had a long road ahead of them. The Dü would barely make it to the end of the year.

Like Sister itself, this set kicks off with "Schizophrenia." The soundman, perhaps excited by what is pretty much the poppiest thing Sonic Youth has done so far, makes Steve Shelley's drums sound like they'd be right at home on a New Order record. It's cool! While the band has certainly been heading in a more straight-ahead direction since Shelley joined, the Paris show showcases just how righteous a rock band SY was becoming, all whiplash riffs and whirlwind energy, as they play most of the new album for the ravenous crowd.

Thurston says: We were getting more seriously into song structure. It's not something we intended to do. It just became something we were getting more proficient at.

Don't get it twisted, sister, this isn't AC/DC or anything, but it rocks mightily, whether Sonic Youth is ripping through "Tuff Gnarl" or finding a very beautiful plateau during the mid-section of "Pacific Coast Highway." Things build up, the music swells majestically ... and then the quartet takes a wrecking ball to it, gleefully and with full abandon. Exciting stuff. And hey, Lee Ranaldo steps up to the mic on "Pipeline," something he'd do much more often in the years to come. Free Lee!

Once again, I haven't tracked down the Dü set from this particular evening, but why not check out a recording from a few days later? Dü it, düdes!

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[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Hüsker Dü (1985)

[ourladyofomega]

🖌️: Keith Haring

[napunk-history]

Hüsker Dü

New Day Rising (1985)

[rodpower78]

Grant Hart - Husker Du