Husker Du News

I recommend taking some cult-cha with your cold cereal -- ita ll make the pre-Thanksgiving/Black Friday mania go down easier.

Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you purchase this classy painting of Dimebag Darrell's murder .

Mon., Nov. 9 2009 @ 11:30AM a This year's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin was the exact thing Aftermath needed in the midst of his fall concert schedule, even though the last day was marred by mud and constant rain.

This past week, Internet search-engine giant Google introduced a new music-search tool that immediately opens a pop-up window for people searching for a song, where either the entire song or a snippet will play for them.

The tour kicks off Nov. 5 in Des Moines, IA, with Hart visiting 16 cities on the trip, which extends through a Dec.

IN A PRACTICE room the size and temperature of a sweat lodge, Mr. Dream rehearses after work.

If the acts on the first day of the Treasure Island Music Festival seemed diverse, day two's lineup was downright schizophrenic.

Aside from Bigfoot, UFO's and WMD in Iraq, one of the biggest current myths is that Bob Mould was the best songwriter in Husker Du.

Actress Angela Lansbury is 84. Actor Barry Corbin is 69. Actress Suzanne Somers is 63.

Ask Gene Simmons, and he'd tell you that rock and roll musicians do it for the money and the girls.

Thrash music is about as subtle as a punch in the mouth - or a dozen punches in two seconds.

One of the misconceptions people have about you when you write about music is that your breadth of knowledge on the subject is all-encompassing and that no album of note or artist of worth has eluded your musical radar.

Husker Du fans have much to celebrate next week with Bob Mould and Grant Hart both performing live in town, although, of course, not together.

But in recent years he seems to be more comfortable with revisiting his past, and last month at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, he joined L.A. noise-pop phenoms No Age for a set of Husker classics.

Photo: "The Other Side" by yura , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar .

KIM RICHEY & WILL KIMBROUGH A terrific combo of artists will mean beautiful singing and hot playing of great songs by the clever and emotive country-popster Richey and the fleet-fingered Kimbrough.

Maybe it's because they're a trio. Maybe it's because they play tight, ferocious, emotionally charged indie rock.

The Lemonheads' evolution from post-Husker Du hardcore punk rockers to teenage heartthrobs is one of the strangest sagas in alternative music.

The beer gut is gone, and so is the greasy pile of hair. In fact, anyone who knew Bob Mould as the disheveled lead singer of Minneapolis punk band Husker Du in the 1980s would barely recognize him now - looking lean, sporting a scholarly beard and speaking in complete sentences.

Mould describes the event as "a music-centric gay dance party, drawing mainly, but not exclusively, men in their 30s and 40s." Read an interview with the punk hero about his latest album and the "Blowoff" party that is a huge hit in Washington, D.C., here .