In October 2025, several social media accounts were created under the name “Sugar Copper Blue,” featuring short archival clips of Sugar shows. All three members of Sugar notably followed the Instagram account, fueling reports of a rumored reunion. On October 15, 2025, the band’s newly-created website announced live shows in…
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Mould spent the summer of 2012 touring and playing Copper Blue in its entirety.
The band played their final show in Sendai, Japan in January 1995. Barbe wished to spend more time with his growing family. Travis took over the drumming slot in Kustomized . Mould continued performing as a solo artist. A b-side compilation album, Besides , was released in July 1995.
In the spring of 1993, they released Beaster , an EP of material recorded during the Copper Blue sessions. The album proved to be more aggressive than the content on Copper Blue . After an abortive attempt to record a second album, the band regrouped and released File Under: Easy…
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In early 1992, Mould, Barbe and Travis rehearsed thirty songs in the back of a tire shop in downtown Athens, Georgia. The band was named in a Waffle House restaurant in Athens, when Mould spotted a sugar packet on the table where he and the other two band members were…
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Later in 1992, the band released the album Copper Blue on Rykodisc in the US and Creation Records in the UK. Copper Blue was named Album Of The Year 1992 by NME . The music videos for the singles “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” and “Helpless” received extensive air…
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After frontman Bob Mould departed from Hüsker Dü , he released two solo albums, Workbook , which was critically acclaimed, and Black Sheets of Rain . Mould parted ways with Virgin Records in 1991, and toured the world as a solo performer while writing and performing dozens of new songs.…
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