{"id":5955,"date":"2025-10-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sugar-bob-mould-reunion\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:00:00","slug":"sugar-bob-mould-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/sugar-bob-mould-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sweet: Sugar Return For First Shows Since 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/6R3A0815-Cropped-2.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"787\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sugar, the band Bob Mould formed with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcom Travis in 1991 after the dissolution of the massively influential H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, is reuniting next year for their first shows since January 1995. A propulsive, 138-second new single, \u201cHouse of Dead Memories,\u201d is out now in tandem with a music video featuring vintage VHS clips of Sugar on tour in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The trio will return to the stage May 2-3 at New York\u2019s Webster Hall and May 23-24 at London\u2019s Kentish Town Forum. In conjunction, <em>The Singles Collection<\/em>, a new four-LP boxed set commemorating Sugar\u2019s beloved 1992 debut, <em>Copper Blue<\/em>, is due Nov. 28 through BMG. It includes the first vinyl release of the previously CD-only \u201cHelpless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/dangelo-tributes\/\">Beyonc\u00e9, Tyler, Missy Pay Tribute To D\u2019Angelo<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/how-the-pharcyde-led-west-coast-hip-hop-into-a-new-era\/\">How the Pharcyde Led West Coast Hip-Hop Into a New Era<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/10\/korn-pet-accessories\/\">KORN DOG<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"-S72djtUIFk\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite its short lifespan during the height of grunge, Sugar provided Mould, now 64, a crucial bridge back into playing in a rock band after he\u2019d spent the initial post-H\u00fcsker D\u00fc years recording and performing solo. The group is best-known for the <em>Copper Blue<\/em> single \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Change Your Mind,\u201d and went on to release the ferocious 1993 EP <em>Beaster<\/em> and the 1994 full-length <em>File Under: Easy Listening<\/em> before disbanding amicably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSugar was a phenomena. No one could have predicted the results,\u201d says Mould. \u201cWe held onto the wheel and did our best to enjoy the wild ride. Sugar was part of a pivotal era in popular music, and a special time in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Sugar, Barbe, now 62, became an in-demand producer and engineer for artists such as Drive-By Truckers, the Glands and Deerhunter, and also began teaching at the University of Georgia, where he\u2019s now the director of the school\u2019s Music Business Certificate Program. Travis, now 72, has since drummed in a number of projects, including Kustomized, and worked in the administration department at Brown University.<\/p>\n<p>Mould previously attempted to reform the group in 2011, with an eye on performing <em>Copper Blue<\/em> in its entirety to commemorate its 20th anniversary the following summer. The musicians actually rehearsed for several days in Barbe\u2019s Athens, Ga., home base, but were ultimately unable to merge their schedules in a way that allowed for a tour at that time. Instead, Mould performed <em>Copper Blue<\/em> in full on a summer 2012 trek with his longtime solo band of drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Bob asked me to play in his band, I was making five or six bucks an hour driving a delivery truck and I\u2019d just had a second baby. I\u2019d been hoping that this whole production thing was going to take off for me,\u201d Barbe tells SPIN of Sugar\u2019s earliest days. \u201cBut fast forward 20 years and I had worked on hundreds of records and was extremely busy. My youngest kid was graduating from high school that summer and we were getting him ready to go off to college.\u00a0I just couldn\u2019t make the logistics work for a Sugar reunion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was bummed out we didn\u2019t find some way to do it because it would have really been fun, but I also know that Bob had his vision of what he wanted to do and I respect that,\u201d he continues. \u201cI\u2019ve now been at UGA for a pretty long time and have a considerable degree of flexibility. I\u2019d mentioned this to him since, just like, hey, if you ever want to do it again, don\u2019t <em>not<\/em> ask, because things have changed for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Sugar single, \u201cHouse of Dead Memories,\u201d was recorded in June at John Vanderslice\u2019s Tiny Telephone studio in Oakland, Ca. \u201cThe return of Sugar is a moment that I\u2019ve been dreaming about for a very long time,\u201d says Travis. \u201cWhat we managed to accomplish in the short span of time we were in existence still boggles my mind. There was so much packed into that period \u2014 the travel, the shows, the recordings and getting to meet so many people who loved and supported us. To get back to working together again with Bob and David is such a gift and I\u2019m looking forward to what the future has in store for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adds Barbe, \u201cit will all get real when I feel Bob\u2019s amp shaking my pants legs again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mould just wrapped a solo electric North American tour, during which Barbe opened on several dates. A European run in the same format kicks off Nov. 8 in Barcelona and concludes Dec. 2 in Helsinki.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar, the band Bob Mould formed with bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcom Travis in 1991 after the dissolution of the massively influential H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, is reuniting next year for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4131,4132,6,24,4050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-mould","category-david-barbe","category-news","category-pushly","category-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}