In 2025, Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis revived Sugar, releasing the single “House of Dead Memories” and subsequently announcing a tour set to take place throughout this year.
The band’s return, thirty years after its breakup, rekindles memories of Copper Blue, their groundbreaking debut album, released in 1992.
The recently released documentary Sugar - Changes: The Story of Sugar makes it clear how Copper Blue placed Bob Mould at the center of the vibrant alternative scene of the 1990s, after the musician had already made a name for himself with the influential band Hüsker Dü in the previous decade.
In its twenty-minute runtime, the documentary—which features archival footage and interviews with the three band members—provides an accurate overview of the band’s brief history. The film covers everything from the group’s formation and the impact of their music at the time to the reasons that led to their breakup in 1995.
Among the most interesting facts presented in the video is the revelation that their first rehearsals took place in Athens, Georgia, at the same venue where the iconic band Pylon used to rehearse. Furthermore, the band’s name itself came about quite unpretentiously, while the three were having coffee at a local diner on the eve of their unexpected first show at the legendary 40 Watt Club.
Sugar - Changes: The Story of Sugar was directed by Rob Hatch-Miller.
