Minnesota’s public radio station 89.3 The Current has posted a podcast about the influential band HÜSKER DÜ in a five part series. Below is a breakdown of the five episodes.
Episode 1: New Day Rising introduces the band before they became a band, following Hart and Norton’s youth in St. Paul and subsequent first encounter with Mould, a fellow student at St. Paul’s Macalester College with a Flying V guitar and passion for punk rock equal to their own.
Episode 2: All Tensed Up follows Mould, Hart and Norton as they first form a band and move from playing covers as Buddy and the Returnables to prolific songwriters and pillars of the Minneapolis-St. Paul punk community.
Episode 3: Chartered Trips sees Hüsker Dü hitting the road and making a name as America’s fastest hardcore band on their classic first recordings, among them 1982’s LAND SPEED RECORD and 1983’s EVERYTHING FALLS APART.
Episode 4: Celebrated Summer finds the tension building between the members of Hüsker Dü but the music they were creating proved too great to deny, notably on the string of masterpieces made for SST, including the epochal 1984 double album, ZEN ARCADE. The epic fifth and final episode of DO YOU REMEMBER? A PODCAST ABOUT HÜSKER DÜ –
Episode 5: Everything Falls Apart – spans the band’s signing to Warner Bros, releasing a pair of milestone albums in 1986’s CANDY APPLE GREY and 1987’s WAREHOUSE: SONGS AND STORIES, breaking up in 1987, and then celebrated three decades later with Numero Group’s extraordinary SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ compendium.
The podcast is available through Apple Music, KCMP, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and RSS. The band’s latest boxset SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ is out on November 10th.
