I played hurling in an intramural league in San Diego for a few years (until my ankles started to boycott the rest of my body). It’s fast, hard, and fun, but you CAN learn it. Not as well as the Irish guys on the team, for sure, but you will be able to pick up the basics and have a really good time. Read more

Rumours of HW’s tendency to be “grabby” while making sexual jokes have circulated among certain circles since at least the late 90's. Not to mention hushed rumors of very secret and numerous mistresses before and during his presidency. Read more

My ex-girlfriend’s mother had her ass grabbed by Bush Sr. back in the 90s when he visited the restaurant she was working at. Happened when they posed for a photo too. Read more

He used to come into the restaurant i worked at in Maine as a teenager and grab ass like it was his job Read more

Yup. This is all fairly usual. Broadway tours I worked on going through Houston, he’d pull this behavior with the chorus girls. People were usually warned to not be the ones next to him. Read more

I started this article thinking, “No. No way.” THEN BUSH’S PR TEAM ADMITTED IT!! Read more

this is great—thanks so much for posting. i actually caught a snippet of “shes a woman” trailing out of a bar on my way home from work last friday and decided to listen to warehouse in its entirety as soon as i got home. i was already down the rabbit hole when the news broke yesterday. hart’s songs were all so… Read more

damn. Read more

Man, when those drums start kicking at the beginning of “Something I Learned Today”...Well, more than three decades later I still get chills thinking about the hour of furious beauty that is Zen Arcade that I’m about to hear for the countless time. The music never gets old, but dammit the past don’t get bigger and… Read more

Husker Du, the Mats, Sonic Youth, and r.e.m. were the sound track of my youth. This hurts. Great post Dave Read more

I was never lucky enough to see Husker Du, but a friend and I sat 5 feet away from Hart when Nova Mob played a small university club a couple decades ago. When the show was done he came and sat and chatted with us for a while. Great guy. Read more

I bought Zen Arcade in Montgomery, Alabama, in early 1984, I believe. I was packing to move to Minneapolis in 1987 when my mom told me that “German band you like is on tv” during their Today Show performance. I had no friends in Minneapolis and would wander around town, rolling cigarettes and looking for the buildings… Read more

>>So there’s never going to be a Hüsker Dü reunion after all.<< Read more

I did some posting on the AV Club site, but Husker Du meant more to me than just the albums and shows (which kicked ass). I moved to a new city (outside NYC) at 14, had zero friends, was socially awkward, dealing with being the new kid in a smallish high school, was probably pretty depressed, but I made an effort and… Read more

I owe this one to Oedipus on WBCN in the late 80s. He was right; they were the only band that ever mattered. RIP Grant. Read more

I rocked Candy Apple Grey and Flip Your Wig already today. Such an important and influential band. Read more

Damn, this sucks. To people of a certain age and milieu, this is a tragic loss. A reunion would have been incredible. I am a couple years outside the window to have seen Husker Du, but have seen Mould several times. Loudest concert I have been to, seriously, was Sugar in 1991. Sad day.
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I did a little emotional bleeding earlier over in the A.V. Club post about Grant, still haven’t really recovered. I live in the Twin Cities and have done that same tour myself except I didn’t have Grant Hart taking me around. Thanks for that great story, Read more

yes to all of this dave. i saw them in punk clubs and on their “triumphant” “major label” “arena” tour which was a sold out show at the wang center in boston with the feelies opening for them. they managed something even The Pixies couldn’t: to be both ahead of their time and behind the right era to get our age…

This is beautiful, thank you, Dave. RIP Grant. Read more