My favorite song on Bob Mould’s excellent new Beauty & Ruin is “I Don’t Know You Anymore,” which just got a humorous video starring Colin Meloy. But there’s nothing quite like watching Mould, Jon Wurster, and Jason Narducy rip into one of his tunes, and their performance of “I ...

Bob Mould is a punk rock legend still bashing out remarkably vigorous and effective anthems. (My co-worker Michael says he’s making the best music of his career right now, which is lunacy, but the mere fact that someone could think that right now is amazing.) But legend status and good songs don’t necessarily guarantee a [...]

When we talked to Bob Mould about his new album Beauty & Ruin, the legendary punk-rocker compared it to a series of Polaroids that tell the story of the emotionally chaotic year that unfolded after his father’s death. Now you can hear that progression “from loss to reflection to acceptance to future” play o...

Bob Mould has been doing this longer than some of you have been alive. Shit, he’s been doing it longer than I’ve been alive. Hüsker Dü, the harrowing and inspiring Minnesota jangle-punk trio with whom a young Mould first sealed his legend, released their first album in January 1983, which puts him more than three [...]

Bob Mould is such a veteran presence in indie rock that he was already an icon when the Merge Records braintrust, themselves veteran indie rockers, was just getting started touring as members of Superchunk. The two institutions are indeed merging for Mould’s new Beauty & Ruin, and today they’ve unveiled the album&...