Hüsker Dü Database
Revision history

History of changes to the site, listed in reverse chronological order, since Jan 2004. Scroll or jump down to access updates prior to the current year.

Note: New additions to the acknowledgments list are not explicitly noted, but any contributors mentioned below whose names did not already appear there should have been added on the dates shown.

Date Description of changes
20 Mar 2010 Put up a bunch of new venue image pages and added their links to the dates page:
    St Paul's Cultural Center, Chicago
    Club Garibaldi's, Milwaukee
    Knitting Factory, Brooklyn
    Cousin Larry's, Danbury CT
    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Tap Room, Austin
    Long Branch Inn, Austin
    Club 1808, Austin
    Kung Fu Saloon, Austin
    The Frequency, Madison WI
    Avalon Theatre, Easton MD
19 Mar 2010 Embedded YouTube clip in the annotated discography entry for The Beat, recorded 13 Jun 1993 backstage at the the Great Xpectations Music Festival in Finsbury Park, London and aired later on ITV program, "The Beat."
17 Mar 2010 Embedded YouTube clip in the annotated discography entry for The New Music, recorded 13 Oct 1987 backstage at the RPM Club, Toronto.
15 Mar 2010 Grant Hart is going to be busy at SXSW this year. From his tour dates page (all venues in Austin):
    17 Mar 2010, Lamberts Downtown BBQ (Green Room Music showcase)
    18 Mar 2010, Longbranch Inn (12XU Day Party)
    18 Mar 2010, Club 1808 (Neo Obsolete Post Nasal Surrealistic Carnage)
    19 Mar 2010, Canvas Bar & Gallery (Midwasteland Takeover)
    20 Mar 2010, Kung Fu Saloonamp; (Piano's Day Party)
    20 Mar 2010, Tap Room; (Second Motion Records/Blurt Magazine showcase)
Put up a flyer image for the Club 1808 gig. Updated the 2010 flyer index page and the dates page.
09 Mar 2010 Added a newly-scheduled Grant Hart date: 28 Mar 2010, Café at the Armory (Somerville MA). Also put up a venue image page for the Armory. More info here. Thanks to Paul Cerqua for the heads-up.
09 Mar 2010 Put up a flyer image for a Hüsker Dü gig advertised to take place at the Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, 03 Nov 1985 and updated the 1985 flyer index page. The original dates page listing for this gig had the venue as the Palladium Dance Club (which info probably came from an old press release), so it's likely that the venue was switched at some point — but it's not clear at which one the band ultimately played.
08 Mar 2010 Put up a flyer image for the canceled 06 Mar 2010 Grant Hart gig at The Frequency in Madison WI. Updated the 2010 flyer index page and the dates page.
07 Mar 2010 Added a ticket image for the 02 Mar 2010 Carnegie Hall Who tribute concert to the ticket collage page.
07 Mar 2010 Put up an alternate flyer image for the 11 Jan 1983 Hüsker Dü gig at Mendiola's Ballroom in Huntington Beach CA. Thanks to Andy Nystrom.
07 Mar 2010 Added a few new items to the ephemera page:
    Bob Mould letter to a fan, Nov 1982
    Bob Mould note to a fan, summer 1983
    Candy Apple Grey promo card, 1986
    Carnegie Hall March 2010 playbill (Who tribute concert with Bob Mould)
Thanks to Andy Nystrom for the scans of the first two items.
07 Mar 2010 Put up a performance stills page for Bob Mould's appearance last Tuesday at the Carnegie Hall Who tribute concert and linked to it from the dates page.
06 Mar 2010 Put up setlist pages for two Bob Mould appearances earlier this week:
    02 Mar 2010, Carnegie Hall, NY (Who tribute)
    03 Mar 2010, World Café Live, Philadelphia
Also added a description of the Philly show audience recording to the live recordings section of the annotated discography.
06 Mar 2010 Updated the dates page to reflect some changes and additions to Grant Hart's performance schedule:
Canceled (due to illness)
    05 Mar 2010, St Paul's Cultural Center, Chicago
    06 Mar 2010, The Frequency, Madison WI
Recent adds:
    01 Apr 2010, Rumba Café, Columbus OH
    02 Apr 2010, Quenchers Saloon, Chicago
    03 Apr 2010, Picador/Gabe's, Iowa City (Mission Creek Music Festival venue announced)
Put up venue image pages for Rumba Café, Quenchers, and Picador/Gabe's. Thanks to Rüdiger Höckel and Michael Emanuele for pointing out the changes.
02 Mar 2010 Embedded YouTube clip in the annotated discography entry for the Edgewise program with Bob Mould (interview plus in-studio performance of "Roll Over And Die") on MSNBC, 23 Nov 1996.
01 Mar 2010 Put up two flyer images from Grant Hart's unofficial MySpace page, both for gigs at the Entry:
    31 Dec 1988 (with the Swallows)
    02 Feb 1990 (with Nova Mob)
Updated the 1988 and 1990 flyer index pages and linked to the images from the dates page.
01 Mar 2010 Added a couple of upcoming Grant Hart dates:
    17 Mar 2010 at Lamberts Downtown BBQ in Austin (SXSW)
    25 Mar 2010 at the M-Room in Philadelphia.
Put up venue image pages for Lamberts and the M-Room. Thanks to Bill Holtzheimer for the Philly pointer.
01 Mar 2010 Put up a flyer image for the 11 Jan 1983 Hüsker Dü gig at Mendiola's Ballroom in Huntington Beach CA. Updated the 1983 flyer index page and the dates page. Thanks to Lasse W.
26 Feb 2010 Embedded YouTube clips in the annotated discography entry for the Megamix Special feature on Sugar that aired on German TV in May 1993.
25 Feb 2010 Documented a couple of recently-acquired live Grant Hart recordings, 29 May 2009 and 14 Jan 2010, both from the Cake Shop in NYC. Also added links on the dates page to setlist pages for the May 2009 and Jan 2010 shows. Grant covered "Cut Across Shorty" at the May show, so that was added to the Hüsker song titles page and the songs covered page.
23 Feb 2010 New Bob Mould date announced last week: 01 May 2010, Bluebird Theater, Denver.
23 Feb 2010 Put up poster images for an old Hüsker show and a more recent Bob Mould show:
    16 Jun 1983, Coffman Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Hüsker)
    07 Apr 2009, Birchmere, Alexandria VA (Bob)
Updated the 1983 and 2009 flyer index pages and added links on the dates page.
21 Feb 2010 Embedded YouTube clips in the annotated discography entries for the respective appearances by Grant Hart and Bob Mould the German Tele 5 TV program "Off-Beat Special" two days apart during the Popkomm Festival in Düsseldorf in Nov 1989.
20 Feb 2010 Added two Grant Hart dates, one past, one upcoming:
    17 Nov 2009 instore at Millennium Music in Portland OR.
    03 Apr 2009 at Mission Creek Music Festival in Iowa City (venue TBA).
Also put up setlist pages for the Millennium instore performance and the Dante's gig later that night in Portland. Thanks to Craig Giffen for the Portland info and to Bill Barry for the heads-up on the Iowa City date.
18 Feb 2010 Hüsker Dü news page updated (Windows audio link to Grant Hart on NPR World Café, 17 Feb 2010).
18 Feb 2010 Added a new Grant Hart date: 06 Mar 2010 at The Frequency in Madison WI. Thanks to Shawn Poulter.
17 Feb 2010 Added a new Gang Font (with Greg Norton) date: 13 Mar 2010 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Greg describes the gig: "We are only going to play one song. The Walker is hosting a Dave King Extravaganza the 12th & 13th, with all the music being Dave King Projects. They are billing it as 'King for Two Nights.'" Thanks to Greg Norton.
17 Feb 2010 Embedded a YouTube clip in the annotated discography entry for the VH1 Where Are They Now? segment on Hüsker Dü that aired 09 Sep 1999.
14 Feb 2010 Added a ticket image to the ticket collage page for the 11 Sep 1998 Bob Mould Band show at the Jeschke Auditorium, Sioux Falls SD.
12 Feb 2010 Noticed a previously unlisted Grant Hart date while poking through images on his MySpace page: 08 May 2009, at the Nomad Pub in Minneapolis. Put up flyer image and venue image pages, updated the 2009 flyer index page, and added the various links to the dates page.
12 Feb 2010 Hüsker Dü news page updated (article in The [Memphis] Commercial Appeal on the upcoming film, Losers Take All, to which Grant Hart has contributed soundtrack music).
07 Feb 2010 Embedded a YouTube clip of excerpts from Bob Mould's 04 Sep 1994 stint as guest host of MTV's 120 Minutes (recorded three days earlier) into the annotated discography entries for both the initial airing, with the acoustic performance with Lou Barlow of Lou's "Magnet's Coil" and the December live compilation show that featured Bob and Lou performing "Believe What You're Saying."
06 Feb 2010 Embedded YouTube clips in the annotated discography entries for the 11 Jun 1987 live video (Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt) and the Apr 1987 Channel 11 News Extra feature (Minneapolis TV).
29 Jan 2010 Put up a performance stills page for Bob Mould's 23 Jan 2010 show at the City Winery in NYC. Also added an after-show shot of Bob with Jack Rabid to the candid photos page.
28 Jan 2010 Added a few more upcoming Grant Hart dates to the dates page:
    05 Mar 2010, Chicago, St Paul's Cultural Center
    23* Mar 2010, Chattanooga TN, JJ's Bohemia
    26 Mar 2010, Danbury CT, Cousin Larrys/Sub Rosa Party
    27 Mar 2010, NYC, 92Y Tribeca
* Grant's MySpace page says 23 Mar, but the JJ's Bohemia MySpace page says 22 Mar.
27 Jan 2010 Hüsker Dü news page updated (Magnet Byrds vs. Hüsker poll and archived Bob Mould live radio appearance on WNYC).
24 Jan 2010 Put up setlist pages for Bob Mould's Friday (22 Jan) and Saturday (23 Jan) shows at City Winery in NYC. Thanks to John Hogan for the Friday night list. Also put up a venue image page for City Winery
23 Jan 2010 Put up a venue image page for OZ (Chicago) and added its link to the dates page. Image captured from You Weren't There: A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 DVD.
23 Jan 2010 Put up poster images for a couple of old Chicago Hüsker shows:
    12 Aug 1982, Club COD
    13 Nov 1983, Tuts
The latter was a previously unlisted date, added to the dates page. Also added a Tuts venue description page and updated the 1982 and 1983 flyer index pages. Flyer images captured from the excellent You Weren't There: A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 DVD.
21 Jan 2010 Put up a poster image for Grant Hart's February Australia tour and updated the 2010 flyer index page. Thanks to Rob Schieron for the pointer.
21 Jan 2010 Put up a still photo from Hüsker Dü's 18 Jan 1985 show at the Orpheum Café in Duluth. Thanks to Jeff Barbari for the scan of the newspaper clipping from which the photo was extracted..
19 Jan 2010 Put up a setlist page for Grant Hart's solo acoustic instore performance last Saturday (16 Jan) at the Record Collector in Bordentown NJ. Thanks to Martin van Rappard.
17 Jan 2010 Added entries to the summary discography and annotated discography for the Australian release of Grant Hart's Hot Wax album and put up a temporary artwork page for it. Album to be issued by Sydney's High Spot label and will feature a bonus track, "Khalid," not included on the US version of the album, as described in the High Spot press release. Thanks to Rob Schieron for the pointer.
15 Jan 2010 Well, that didn't take long: Grant's 20 Jan Toledo show has been called off, to be rescheduled for a future date.
15 Jan 2010 Added several more recently announced performance dates (a couple of which have already passed):
    12 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Cafe Nine, New Haven CT
    14 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Cake Shop, NYC
    15 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Knitting Factory, Brooklyn
    16 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Record Collector, Bordentown NJ
    20 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Frankies, Toledo OH
    22 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Baba Louie's, De Pere WI
    23 Jan 2010 (Grant Hart), Club Garibaldi's, Milwaukee
    03 Mar 2010 (Bob Mould), World Café Live, Philadelphia
    05 Mar 2010 (Bob Mould), Avalon Theatre, Easton MD
12 Jan 2010 Put up a setlist page and a performance stills page for Grant Hart's 11 Jan 2010 show at the Middle East (Upstairs) in Cambridge MA. Put up an image of the Jan 2010 Middle East calendar and updated the flyer index page. Also added "What's A Little Angel Doing So Far From Heaven?" to the Hüsker song titles page, having ascertained the correct title from Grant of the new song previously conjectured as "Uriel."
12 Jan 2010 Added several new images to the Hüsker candids page:
    Grant Hart, Cambridge MA, Jul 2002
    Grant Hart, Detroit MI, Aug 2003
    Greg Norton, Grant Hart & Mike Watt, Minneapolis, May 2009
    Greg Norton, Omaha, May 2009
    Bob Mould, Boston, Oct 2009
    Bob Mould, New York, Oct 2009
    Grant Hart, Cambridge MA, Jan 2010
Thanks to Jeremy Frey for the Detroit photo.
12 Jan 2010 Upgraded the performance stills page for Grant Hart's 31 Aug 2003 show at the Lager House in Detroit. Thanks to Jeremy Frey for the photos.
08 Jan 2010 Put up a performance stills page for Bob Mould's 27 Aug 2000 show at the Goose Island Festival in Chicago. Thanks to Travis Vande Berg for the photos.
08 Jan 2010 Added a newly discovered upcoming Grant Hart performance to the dates page: 21 Jan 2010, Ronny's, Chicago. Also put up a Ronny's venue image page. Thanks to Martin van Rappard.

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