For about a year, I posted all the music writing my brother Brendan O’Malley did on his old blog, because my brother is such a good writer, and these pieces are all so great I wanted to highlight them. I called it Music Monday, for obvious reasons. First, I posted every essay in his 50 Best Albums series. Then I posted the series where he wrote about every concert he went to – or at least the most memorable ones – and he clustered them by club/venue.
Today is the birthday of legendary Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Gould. Hüsker Dü was a life-changing favorite for my brother – and for many MANY other people, I know – and he wrote two essays about them.
The first is an essay on Hüsker Dü’s album, Zen Arcade, on Brendan’s 50 Best Albums list.
The second is about Bren going to see Hüsker Dü at the Living Room, a legendary rock club in Providence, RI. If you grew up in a certain era, The Living Room is featured heavily in your memories. Bren captures it all.
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