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  • Bob Mould announces ‘Workbook 25’ expanded reissue, 7-date ‘commemorative’ tour

    Bob Mould announces ‘Workbook 25’ expanded reissue, 7-date ‘commemorative’ tour

    • 9 December 2013
    • Reissues, Tour Dates, Tracklist
    • 7 comments

    Bob Mould’s gearing up to celebrate next year’s 25th anniversary of his post-Hüsker Dü solo debut Workbook in a big way, and now come details of an expanded reissue of the album — featuring a bonus live album as part of the 2CD set — as well as what’s being termed a 7-date “commemorative” tour.

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  • Bob Mould to celebrate 25 years of ‘Workbook’ at San Francisco’s Noise Pop fest

    Bob Mould to celebrate 25 years of ‘Workbook’ at San Francisco’s Noise Pop fest

    • 23 October 2013
    • Anniversary, Festivals
    • 2 comments

    Bob Mould will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his post-Hüsker Dü solo debut Workbook next year with a special performance at San Francisco’s annual Noise Pop festival, organizers announced today as they unveiled an initial lineup for the Feb. 25-March 2 fest that also includes Mark Kozelek.

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  • Video: Bob Mould spotlights new album, Sugar, Hüsker Dü in KEXP set at Bumbershoot

    Video: Bob Mould spotlights new album, Sugar, Hüsker Dü in KEXP set at Bumbershoot

    • 1 October 2013
    • Video
    • 0 comments

    Seattle’s KEXP has just shared video of a blistering, half-hour set by Bob Mould filmed by the radio station during last month’s Bumbershoot festival that finds the rocker tearing through a set comprised of three songs apiece off Sugar’s Copper Blue, his latest solo album Silver Age and Hüsker Dü’s Flip Your Wig.

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  • Readers Poll 2012: Best reissues of the year

    Readers Poll 2012: Best reissues of the year

    • 31 December 2012
    • Poll
    • 0 comments

    Today we count down the best reissue of 2012 as voted on by Slicing Up Eyeballs in this year’s readers poll, and the Top 10 list includes releases by Icehouse, Ministry, The House of Love, Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen, Yazoo, Bob Mould’s Sugar, My Bloody Valentine, Peter Gabriel and more.

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  • ‘A Box of Sugar’ collects full recordings of Bob Mould’s post-Hüsker Dü act on vinyl

    ‘A Box of Sugar’ collects full recordings of Bob Mould’s post-Hüsker Dü act on vinyl

    • 12 November 2012
    • Box Sets, Reissues, Vinyl
    • 0 comments

    It’s been a big year for fans of Bob Mould’s post-Hüsker Dü act Sugar, with competing — and slightly different — sets of CD reissues out in the U.S. and U.K., plus live performances of Copper Blue around the world. Now, the U.K.’s Demon Music Group is compiling the band’s complete recordings in an 8-record audiophile vinyl set.

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  • Video: Bob Mould plays ‘Silver Age’ track ‘Keep Believing’ on ‘Conan’

    Video: Bob Mould plays ‘Silver Age’ track ‘Keep Believing’ on ‘Conan’

    • 30 October 2012
    • TV, Video
    • 1 comment

    Bob Mould was in Los Angeles on Monday ahead of the first of his last two ‘Copper Blue’ shows — after tonight’s L.A. concert and an Austin, Texas, appearance on Friday, he says he’s done playing the Sugar album front-to-back — and squeezed in an appearance on “Conan” to tear through ‘Silver Age’ track “Keep Believing.”

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  • Contest: Win full set of Sugar’s new expanded CD reissues from Merge Records

    Contest: Win full set of Sugar’s new expanded CD reissues from Merge Records

    • 19 October 2012
    • Contests
    • 215 comments

    With Bob Mould out on tour this fall supporting both his excellent new studio album and celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sugar’s beloved Copper Blue, the fine folks at Merge Records have hooked us up with a full set of the recently released Sugar reissues to award one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.

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  • Full-album stream: Bob Mould, ‘Silver Age’ — ‘companion’ to Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue’

    Full-album stream: Bob Mould, ‘Silver Age’ — ‘companion’ to Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue’

    • 27 August 2012
    • Digital Music
    • 0 comments

    Bob Mould’s first new album in three years — the 10-track ‘Silver Age’ — arrives next week, and the former Hüsker Dü frontman today debuted the record via a full-album stream at RollingStone.com. He tells the rock mag it’s no coincidence the album sounds a bit like Sugar’s just-reissued 1992 debut ‘Copper Blue.’

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  • Stream: Bob Mould, ‘The Descent’ — first single off forthcoming album ‘Silver Age’

    Stream: Bob Mould, ‘The Descent’ — first single off forthcoming album ‘Silver Age’

    • 6 August 2012
    • Digital Music
    • 2 comments

    Bob Mould is set to release his first new album in three years in less than a month, and Merge Records this morning offered up the first taste of Silver Age in the form of lead single “The Descent,” which, perhaps not surprisingly, is very reminiscent of Mould’s ’90s work with Sugar.

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  • New releases: Sugar, Claudia Brücken, Happy Mondays, Yazoo, Peter Gabriel, Icehouse

    New releases: Sugar, Claudia Brücken, Happy Mondays, Yazoo, Peter Gabriel, Icehouse

    • 23 July 2012
    • New Releases
    • 1 comment

    This week’s new releases include the U.S. reissue of Sugar’s catalog, a live CD/DVD from Propaganda’s Claudia Brücken, a live CD from Happy Mondays, an audiophile vinyl pressing of Yazoo’s ‘Upstairs at Eric’s,’ the U.S. release of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Secret World Live,’ and reissues of Icehouse’s ‘Primitive Man’ and ‘Man of Colours.’

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  • Video: Bob Mould plays Sugar’s ‘Hoover Dam’ at Noise Pop fest in San Francisco

    Video: Bob Mould plays Sugar’s ‘Hoover Dam’ at Noise Pop fest in San Francisco

    • 20 July 2012
    • Video
    • 0 comments

    With Merge Records set to release U.S. editions of Sugar’s catalog reissues next week, the label is teasing the discs with this video of Bob Mould and his band — drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy — tearing through ‘Copper Blue’ standout “Hoover Dam” at San Francisco’s NoisePop festival back in February.

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