Bob Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for influential rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.

Grant Hart is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the influential alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1987, Hart formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar. Both projects experienced limited success, and Hart's solo career became his main focus after the dissolution of Nova Mob in 1997.

Greg Norton was the bassist for seminal Minnesota punk band Hüsker Dü. He is known for his distincitve handlebar moustache. However, his true passion was food. In fact, Norton has spent the last quarter-century in the restaurant business. Hüsker Dü formed around the same time that he started his career in that business. During the early 80s, it was known that one of the members of Hüsker Dü was homosexual, …

Evan Dando is an American musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

SPOT, (born Glen Lockett in 1951), was the house producer and engineer for the influential indie/punk record label SST Records. He recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced for most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1985. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag, The Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Saint Vitus, The Descendents, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Big Boys and The Dicks.

Karl Mueller was a U.S. rock musician. He was the bass player and a founding member of the Minneapolis rock/grunge band Soul Asylum. In the early 1990s, after nearly a decade of constant touring and critical acclaim, Soul Asylum found themselves without a recording contract. Mueller worked for part of this time at a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis.

Lou Giordano is a record producer and recording engineer who worked at Radiobeat Studios and Fort Apache Studios. He has produced a wide variety of bands, including Hüsker Dü, the Goo Goo Dolls, and many others. While he was a student at MIT and a member of the local band The Vacuum Heads he created two famous guitar effect pedals for seminal post-punk act Mission of Burma: the Vacu-Fuzz ("a Big Muff Pi on steroids") and the Vacu-Trem a souped up Tremolo unit.

Anton Fier is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves), worked with Pere Ubu, and founded The Golden Palominos. Fier has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and also toured and recorded with Hüsker Dü guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Bob Mould. Fier played in the band Locus Solus with John Zorn and Arto Lindsay.

Steven Greenberg of Saint Paul, Minnesota is a musician, record producer and the owner of the independent October Records label. He is best known for his 1980 hit song "Funkytown," recorded under the name Lipps Inc.Many of his songs are classics on the dancefloor such as "Addiction to the Night". His music is an inspiration to the new dance music genres. Before hard funksters like Prince and The Time hit the national stage, …

Pat Sansone is a multi-instrumentalist in the rock bands Wilco and The Autumn Defense. Pat was born in Meridian, Mississippi, which is the home of Jimmie Rogers, the father of country music. Upon entering college at the University of Southern Mississippi, Pat found two musical kindred souls in Will Martin and Eddie Bo McRaney and started Beagle Voyage, a Minutemen/Hüsker Dü/The Who/Rush influenced power trio, with Pat on guitar.

Formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in 1979, Husker Du were a punk trio consisting of guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton and drummer Grant Hart, whose melding of pop and punk influences inspired thousands of UK, US and European bands. Indeed, it is hard to think of a single other band who have had such a profound impact on modern alternative music than this trio.