Bob Mould's Sugar announce Changes documentary

Directed and produced by Rob Hatch-Miller – known for the Other Music documentary and Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows – the film draws on material shot during Sugar’s recent run at New York’s Webster Hall and folds in previously unseen archival footage, excerpts from Mould’s memoir See A Little Light: The Trail Of Rage And Melody, and sit-down interviews with Mould, bassist David Barbe, and drummer Malcolm Travis.

“It seems to have been one of the happiest eras of Bob's life,” Hatch-Miller said. “We found so much great archival footage, like Lance Bangs' never-before-seen video of the band's first show ever at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, footage of Bob's solo acoustic European festival tour with Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Nirvana in 1991, and so many clips of Bob and the band on MTV's 120 Minutes, where they were so warmly embraced and brought to a mainstream television audience.”

The project lands as Sugar prepare to start the North American leg of their Love You Even Still World Tour, which opens in Denver on 11 August. The run stretches across 24 dates including three sold-out hometown shows at First Avenue in Minneapolis. A portion of each ticket sale will be donated to The Trevor Project, the LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention organisation.

“I tend to be identified most with Hüsker Dü and my solo albums,” Mould says, “but few know the half of how much fun I had with Sugar.”

That body of work includes the NME’s 1992 Album of the Year Copper Blue, the darker, more visceral 1993 mini-album Beaster – which debuted at number three on the UK’s Official Albums Chart – and 1994’s File Under: Easy Listening, a second full-length that broke the Billboard 200 top 10 and returned the band to the UK top 10. Sugar split after a Japanese tour in early 1995, though the original trio reconvened in June 2025 to record "House Of Dead Memories", "Long Live Love", and "Keep Looping", their first new material in over three decades.