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Artist Biography For Bob Mould

Bob Mould Born October 16 1960 In Malone New York Is An American Musician Principally Known For His Work As Guitarist Vocalist And Songwriter For Influential Rock Bands Hüsker Dü In The 1980s And Sugar In The 1990s. Born In Malone New York Mould Lived In Several Places Including Pine City Minnesota And The Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Where He Attended Macalester College. There He Formed Hüsker Dü In The Late 1970s With Drummer/singer Grant Hart And Bass Guitarist Greg Norton. Mould Released His First Solo Album After Hüsker Dü Broke Up 1989's Workbook Eschewed Mould's Trademark Wall-Of-Noise Guitar For A Stripped-Down Sound Featuring Acoustic Guitars And Cellos. 1991's Jagged Black Sheets Of Rain Put Mould In More Familiar Territory Recalling Hüsker Dü's Loudest Angriest Moments. Mould Also Started A Record Label Singles Only Label Which Released Singles From Up And Coming Bands Such As Grant Lee Buffalo. Mould Then Formed The Group Sugar A College/alternative Radio Favorite In The Mid-1990s. Along With Extensive Touring Sugar Released Two Albums An EP And A B-Sides Collection Before Splitting. Mould Returned To Solo Recording Releasing A Self-Titled Album In 1996 Which Is Often Referred To As Hubcap Because Of The Cover Photo And 1998's The Last Dog And Pony Show. During A Stint Living In New York City In The Late-1990s Mould's Tastes Took A Detour Into Dance Music And Electronica. Those Influences Were Clear On His 2002 Release Modulate Which Featured A Strong Electronica Influence To Mixed Critical Reviews. To Pursue This Sound Mould Also Began Recording Under The Pseudonym LoudBomb An Anagram Of His Name . He Has Released One CD So Far Under This Name. Mould Took A Brief Break From The Music World To Get Involved With Another Passion Of His Professional Wrestling When He Joined WCW As A Scriptwriter For A Brief Period. Creative Differences With Some Of The Other Writers Of The League Led To Mould Leaving The Company And Returning To Music. The Liner Notes For Modulate Thank Some Of The Wrestlers He Associated With Most Notably Kevin Nash And Kevin Sullivan. In Addition To His Solo Work Mould Is Also A Live DJ In Collaboration With Washington DC-Area Dance Music Artist Richard Morel Under The Collective Banner Blowoff. A Recording Under That Banner Was Released In September 2006. Mould Has Been Asked To Do Remixes For A Variety Of Dance And Alternative Rock Artists. A Recent Remix Of The Interpol Song "Length Of Love" Has Led To More Critical Acclaim For The Veteran Artist. For Much Of The 1990s Mould Toured Playing Solo Acoustic Renditions Of His Catalog Occasionally Switching To Electric Guitar Midway Through His Set . In 2005 His Solo Album Body Of Song Was Cross-Announced With His First Band Tour Since 1998. Brendan Canty Best Known As The Drummer For Fugazi And Mould's Blowoff Collaborator Morel Played Drums And Keyboards Respectively For The 2005 Tour. Mould's Latest Album District Line Was Released In February 2008. Though His Homosexuality Was Previously Something Of An Open Secret Mould Was Outed In The Early 1990s He Is Now Openly Gay. Though It Was Often Rumored During His Hüsker Dü Days That He And Bandmate Hart Were An Item Hart Was Also Gay And Both Acknowledge Taking Partners On Tour Both Have Flatly Denied Ever Having Been Romantically Involved. In 2006 Mould Contributed The Song "If I Can't Change Your Mind" To The Album Wed-Rock An Album To Promote Same-Sex Marriage. On September 29 2005 Mould's Song "Circles" Was Featured On The OC As Marissa Cooper Was Starting Her First Day At Her Public School In Season 3. Mould's Song "Dog On Fire" Is The Theme Song For The Daily Show. They Might Be Giants Perform The Current Version. The Song "See A Little Light" Has Been Used More Than Once In Various Television Applications It Was Used In The Closing Scene Of The Original Un-Aired Test Pilot Episode Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer It Became One Of The Principal Theme Songs For The HBO Series The Mind Of The Married Man And Was Also Used In A Television Commercial For TIAA-CREF August 2007 . Mould Also Composed The Theme For The TLC Program In A Fix. Mould And Director Cameron Crowe Are Close Friends The Character Bob Sugar Played By Jay Mohr In Crowe's 1996 Film Jerry Maguire Is Named For Both Mould And His Former Band Sugar. Mould Appeared On An Episode Of IFC's The Henry Rollins Show On June 15 2007. Mould Also Played Lead Guitar In The House Band For The Film Of John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig And The Angry Inch. Mould Also Participated In A Hedwig Tribute Album Wig In A Box On Which He Covered The Song "Nailed." Solo Discography
Workbook LP Virgin 1989 See A Little Light Single Virgin 1989 Wishing Well 4 Tracks Single Virgin 1989 Black Sheets Of Rain LP Virgin 1990 Poison Years Compilation LP Virgin 1994 Egøverride Single Rykodisc 1995 Bob Mould LP Rykodisc 1996 The Last Dog And Pony Show LP Rykodisc 1998 Modulate LP Granary Music 2002 Live Dog 98 The Forum London UK Live LP Granary Music 2002 Long Playing Grooves Released Under Anagram LoudBomb LP Granary Music 2002 Body Of Song Yep Roc 2005 District Line Granary Music 2008 Silver Age Edsel 2012 Beauty & Ruin Merge Records 2014 Patch The Sky Merge Records 2016 Sunshine Rock Merge Records 2019 Bootlegs
The Calm Before The Storm Kiss The Stone 1994 Bands Produced
Soul Asylum Made To Be Broken LP Articles Of Faith Give Thanks And In This Life LPs Magnapop Hot Boxing LP Verbow Chronicles LP The Zulus Down On The Floor LP Impaler If We Had Brains... We'd Be Dangerous LP Low Tonight The Monkeys Die Remixes EP Http //www.Bobmould.Com
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