Bob Mould Solo Electric: Here We Go Crazy

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Tue, 07 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm

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Shank Hall | Milwaukee, WI

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Bob Mould Here We Go CrazyWhen he calls, Bob Mould is finishing work on his 15th solo album, Here We Go Crazy. A distillation of the unfailing melodic skill, the emotional lucidity and dynamic fluency hes developed over more than four decades, its also a typically bold realignment of his sonic paradigm. Its turbulent vignettes are scored by Moulds familiar bruised tunefulness, but the sound is pared back to its fundaments, 11 songs blistering past in just over 30 minutes. Ive stripped things back to what excited me as a young guitarist, he explains. The energy, the electricity. Part of the inspiration for this more primal aesthetic is the heavy itinerary of touring hes lately undertaken, several years spent circling the globe, either in the company of bandmates Jon Wurster (drums) and Jason Narducy (bass) or just by himself. I was really throwing myself in the songbook and feeling where the audience is at, he says. And they were really responding to this very simple, just-me-and-a-guitar setup. And I thought, maybe I shouldnt be overcomplicating things, word-ing or craft-ing it up. Just grab for the simple bits of life we still have control over: our emotions, our relationships. After shows, Mould would hang out signing merch and talking to fans. Sometimes people bring a lot of their lifetime emotional content to me, he says, like theyve compressed all this coal into a tiny little diamond. Sometimes Im surprised at the weight of it, the heaviness. Im like, Im here for you. Im listening. Im shocked and grateful they share so readily with me. I dont know what I did to earn that trust. Mould has earned that trust with every record hes made, channelling his own lifetime emotional content for songs of wisdom, honesty and volcanic intensity. His first band, Hsker D, bared his angst over furious noise and turbulent melody, an indelible influence on generations that followed. But by the time Nirvana infiltrated the mainstream, Bob Mould had already moved on, having sequestered himself in a farmhouse to lick his wounds and learn new ways to sing his songs. His solo debut, 1989s folk-rock masterpiece Workbook, was a record of depth and sophistication. Then he pulled another sharp turn, his power-trio Sugar alloying his most melodic songs with his fiercest noise, yielding his most commercially successful work yet. read moreSpecial Guest David Barbe is an Athens musician sometimes referred to as having the widest involvement of any single figure in the Athens, GA music scene. David Barbe has appeared on over 400 albums as producer, engineer, or musician, frequently working at his Athens studio, Chase Park Transduction. At various times he has made music either live or in the studio with hundreds of artists including Sugar, Deerhunter, Drive-By Truckers, Kevn Kinney, The Glands, Son Volt, Crackerr, Ill Ease, Bloodkin, Stef Chura, Bettye LaVette, Booker T. Jones... just to name a few
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Shank Hall,
1434 N. Farwell Ave, Shank Hall,
Milwaukee, United States
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