Bob Mould

Actually I had to put together a trailer for Apple. I think their iTunes music store is doing something on Tuesday with the single and we’re doing some kind of make a video contest or something. They were like “Oh. We need some stuff like now.” I was like, “Okay. Well, I’ll just come back from the beach and take care of it.”

Just a 60 second thing with a little bit of talk and a little bit of music. That’s an average week.

It was just nice to get back to the guitar. I’d been writing a lot more electronic music over the past few years and about this time last year I looked over and saw the guitar sitting in the corner and said, “You know. I’ve got this guitar record that’s half done. I should probably finish it now.” Body of Song was originally supposed to be part of a triptych in 2002. I put out Modulate, which was sort of a hybrid electronic rock record. I put out the LoudBomb record, which was very electronic. So Body of Song was supposed to come out in ’02.

I had done a handful of recording sessions and written a lot of songs and just didn’t feel like it was the record that I wanted or envisioned. So I shelved it for a year and a half and about this time last year I went back and revisited a lot of the stuff and finished writing.

To me it is just another part of what I do. I think it’s a more familiar part for a lot of the fans. I think people over the years have associated me with heavier guitar driven stuff. This record is more guitar than electronic but I guess that’s where people are getting the return to form kind of thing.

It just ended up that way. I stepped away from it for awhile. Over the past couple of years was just doing a lot of just like bootleg remixing work and DJing and working on projects outside of my normal scope. But it’s always cyclical with me now. I just get into different things. I guess this was a good time to get this one done.

They are an indie label out of North Carolina and they own their own distribution company, which was attractive to me. They had been calling me for about a year and a half. I put them off for a while because I wanted to get the record done first. It’s a good place. John Doe, Robyn Hitchcock and Paul Weller are over there. A lot of people who have been making music for years. They let me do my thing. So far, so good.

Business is business. Who can predict the future? I don’t think anybody’s progressing with malice in mind, but the business has a way of changing. You never know what’s going to happen. But so far it’s good. It’s a good working relationship.

Modulate and LoudBomb records were self-released on Granary Music, which has been my imprint for 16 years now. Before that I was working with Ryko, which is another large independent label. I had a stint with Virgin. I had a stint with Warner Brothers. I had a long stint with SST; a label in the 80’s which has never quite caught up on their payments. So that’s sort of my history in the business.

With going through the machinations of it three years ago and seeing how much extra work it put on me I thought, “Maybe this is record where I should just concentrate on the music instead of having to be in every marketing meeting.” I still have a lot of control over how that gets rolled out though. I think it’s going to be a pretty successful record. If it was a record that I thought had a limited audience or a niche audience, I would definitely sell it.

Hüsker Dü was a great band at the time but eight years was enough of that. Sugar was a lot of fun. So no I don’t, onward and forward.

We did Europe in September and then we did a month in the US. It’s going very well.

I definitely take better care of myself. Part of that is because I haven’t been on the road every day for the last seven years. The last six or seven years I’ve really been taking better care of myself, I work out pretty hard and eat right. I want to try to have a higher quality of life in the health department. I think it helps with all components of life.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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