Kingston
will get a rare visit from one of America’s punk rock legends when Hüsker Dü frontman
Bob Mould hits Assembly for a solo performance on August 1.
Born
in northern Franklin County, New York in 1960, Mould attended college in Minneapolis,
where in 1979 he cofounded Hüsker Dü in with drummer and fellow singer-songwriter
Grant Hart and bassist Greg Norton. The trio became one of the pioneering bands
of the hardcore punk genre, gaining attention for their ferocious and blinging
speed; not for nothing was their live 1982 debut album titled Land Speed
Record. The group’s sound expanded from being purely loud/hard/fast to being
more melodic and pop inflected as they began to dominate college rock radio and
signed with major label Warner Brothers Records in 1985. Two years, later Hüsker
Dü split up amid intra-band tensions.
Mould
released Workbook, his solo debut, in 1989; Black Sheets of Rain followed
in 1990. He led another trio, Sugar, from 1992 to 1995, before re-embarking on
a solo career with a self-titled album in 1996. Since then, Mould has released 11
more albums under his own name, some of them influenced by dance music and electronica.
His newest release, Here We Go Crazy, is a return to trademark tuneful
rock that finds him joined by drummer John Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats)
and bassist Jason Narducy (Verboten, Sunny Dy Real Estate).
Bob
Mould will perform at Assembly in Kingston on August 1 at 7pm. Nick Panken will
open. Tickets are $42 and $47.82.
This article appears in July 2025.
