Former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart will hit the road next month for a 17-date North American tour in support of the just-released Hot Wax, his first solo album in a decade.
Hart will open the tour Nov. 5 in Des Moines, Iowa, and crisscross the country — hitting Montreal and Quebec, too — through the [...]

Voyageur Press, the imprint behind the 2007 oral history “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting,” next year will publish a new book about another Twin Cities-bred pillar of ’80s college rock: Hüsker Dü.
Andrew Earles’ 304-page “Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock” is scheduled to be published either May [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Kraftwerk
RELEASES: Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans Europe Express, The Man-Machine, Computer World, Techno Pop, The Mix, Tour De France
BACKSTORY: Although the release of its box set The Catalogue has been delayed until Nov. 17, this week still will [...]

Former Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart once again steps out from behind the kit on next month’s Hot Wax, his first solo album in a decade, and his third overall.
The nine-track, 30-minute disc — due Oct. 6 on Con D’or Records — was recorded in Montreal and Minneapolis, and features guest spots by members [...]