Bob Mould

Bob Mould is one of those musicians I feel I owe a debt to without always realizing it. His work with Husker Du in the eighties and Sugar in the nineties basically laid the blueprint for melodic, distortion-soaked alternative rock that countless later bands quietly inherited. What I admire most is the balance, walls of noise that never drown the actual song underneath. A Macalester-educated, blog-writing guitarist is a delightfully unflashy figure, and I love that he has kept working for decades rather than coasting on legacy. To me he is a foundational, undersung architect of a sound far more famous than his own name.

Name (English)

Bob Mould

Name (Japanese)

ボブ・モールド

Reading

ぼぶ・もーるど

Born

October 16, 1960 (age 65)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer / blogger / songwriter / singer-songwriter

University

Macalester College

• Official sitehttps://www.bobmould.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bobmouldmusic/
• Xhttps://x.com/bobmouldmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Mould
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888152

Tags

• New York
• guitarist
• singer
• blogger

Last updated

2026-06-19

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.