In 1998, Bob Mould was ready to walk away from the guitar-driven music that had become his calling card. The Last Dog and Pony Show, released that year, was to be his last in the genre — a decision that came from looking back on his last twenty years of music and looking around at the music others were making.
“In ‘97 I looked around and thought ‘this rock is no good’,” says Mould, who also penned a song around the same time titled “I Hate Alternative Rock.”“The music business sees a good idea and then has 1,000 people try to copy it.…