{"id":170662,"date":"2025-10-16T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=170662"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:50:21","slug":"bob-mould-huker-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=170662","title":{"rendered":"“I mean, that’s the community of what we do, the difference between me and a streaming service. You actually know it’s me.” — Bob Mould"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>, for obvious reasons. First, I posted every essay in his 50 Best Albums<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Today is the birthday of legendary H\u00fcsker D\u00fc frontman Bob Gould. My brother wrote two essays about them. <\/p>\n

The first is an essay on H\u00fcsker D\u00fc’s album, Zen Arcade<\/i><\/a>, on Brendan’s 50 Best Albums list.<\/p>\n

The second is about Bren going to see H\u00fcsker D\u00fc at the Living Room<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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