If you only read one thing about Husker Du, make it the chapter from Michael Azerrad's superlative Our Band Could Be Your Life. But if you read two, or need a more condensed history/primer, then Stevie Chick's recent piece for the Quietus is highly recommended.
Chick invites Bob Mould - fresh from speaking about the reformed Sugar - to take a wander even further down memory lane, recalling the band's beginnings in the basement of a St Paul record store, their decision to escape the creative dead end of hardcore punk ("constricting and dogmatic") by bringing in melody, underground success and band breakdown, and patching things up with Grant Hart shortly before his death.
Greg Norton also contributes his reflections, including on his post-Du career in the catering industry: "I discovered that mental health and addiction are as bad in restaurants as in the music business."
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