Hüsker Dü - Jan. 30, First Ave Pt.1 (2025) (Hi-Res)

The rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis’s Firat Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band’s rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved – thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we’ve tasked the team at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns.

Today we are dropping the first batch for your listening pleasure alongside a limited '85 era tour shirt available this week only. We have a bunch of boxes of ephemera, photos, and tapes to go through so sit tight; we’re in the midst of a miracle year.

Tracklist
1. Every Everything [01:48]
2. Makes No Sense At All [02:39]
3. Terms Of Psychic Warfare [01:50]
4. Powerline [02:17]
5. Books About UFOs [02:22]