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7 unusual facts about Husker Du


David Askevold

In 1985, while teaching as a visiting artist in media arts in Minneapolis, Askevold collaborated with students to produce his only music video, a tape of two songs by the rock and roll band Hüsker Dü.

Final Warning

Among them: Dead Kennedys, Scream, Dr. Know, The Exploited, Charged GBH, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen, D.R.I. and Mercyful Fate, but they never played outside the Pacific Northwest.

Frank Harthoorn

After Gorefest split up in 1999, Harthoorn co-founded The Hollow Men (initially called The Speed Kings) in 2001, a Dutch rockband that has drawn comparisons to Hüsker Dü, Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Entombed.

In a Fix

The theme music for the program was composed by former Hüsker Dü member Bob Mould.

New Alliance Records

Other early releases on New Alliance included Hüsker Dü's first album Land Speed Record and the Minutemen's second-ever release, the seven-inch EP Joy.

Reflex Records

Reflex Records was an American independent record label formed by the members of hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü and Terry Katzman.

WDAV

Flipsides, hosted by students, featured music from over 2000 albums and artists such as Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, Fetchin Bones, The Replacements, P.I.L., Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper.


Everything Falls Apart

Everything Falls Apart is the debut studio album by Hüsker Dü released in January 1983 by Reflex Records.

Greg Norton

Greg Norton (born Gregory James Norton, 13 March 1959 in Rock Island, Illinois) is an American musician, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü.

Master=Dik

Master=Dik's liner notes reprint a rant by Ben Weasel from the November 1987 issue of the fanzine Maximumrocknroll wherein Weasel criticizes Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and several other indie rock bands from the 1980s for eschewing punk rock for a boring classic rock sound.

Rhys Chatham

The sets consisted of local musicians from each city of the performances, including members of Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hüsker Dü, Brokeback, 90 Day Men, Town & Country, Die Kreuzen, Bird Show and others.

Sunny Day Real Estate

The band joined with long-time Hüsker Dü sound engineer Lou Giordano to record The Rising Tide, released in June 2000.

Tupelo Chain Sex

Graphic artist Art Chantry called Tupelo Chain Sex one of the "... best fucking bands I've seen in my life" and compared them to contemporary groups such as Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Butthole Surfers and the Cramps among others.

VH1 Classic 120 Minutes

A majority of the included videos feature bands on major labels, as well as a few from independent label artists (such as early R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Camper Van Beethoven, and others).


see also

Granary Music

Granary also controls the publishing rights to all of Mould's compositions, including all of the songs he wrote and performed with Hüsker Dü, which he claimed after the band's own publishing partnership was disbanded in 1988.