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\n\tStart with the laundry. Of the many times Bob Mould<\/a>\u2018s band Sugar<\/a> unexpectedly found itself at the center of pop culture in the Nineties, one in particular springs to mind for him: a 1992 festival in Belgium where Sugar were on the same bill as Metallica, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Lenny Kravitz, and the Black Crowes. For Mould<\/a>, who emerged from indie rock the previous decade with Minneapolis\u2019 mighty H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, it was far from a typical gig. \u201cBeing on the periphery of the excess of those times was pretty crazy,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was very, very different than jumping in a van and doing a punk rock tour. It was like, \u2018So, Metallica bring washers and dryers out with them. I get it now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCompared with his years in H\u00fcsker D\u00fc\u00a0and the many decades after on his own, Sugar was a streaking comet in Mould\u2019s career: two albums and one EP in two years, then over and out. But within that compressed time, Sugar brought Mould, bassist David Barbe, and drummer Malcolm Travis as close to the mainstream as Mould would ever get. In addition to that Belgium festival, the band played others with headliners like the Cure, powering through sandblasters like \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Change Your Mind,\u201d<\/a> \u201cJC Auto<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cYour Favorite Thing,\u201d which found a home on alt-rock radio.<\/p>\n \n\tNow, 30 years after Sugar played its last show \u2014 and more than a dozen years after an attempted but abandoned reunion \u2014 the band has returned. The group teased something was in the works on social media last week and this week unveiled a newly recorded raver, \u201cHouse of Dead Memories.\u201d There are shows announced in London and New York, too, set for May 2026.<\/p>\n