Mudhoney

Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition (Sub Pop)

Mudhoney’s singular March to Fuzz (2000) continues at a Civil War scale by encasing the Seattle quartet’s six-track EP/vacuum-cleaner explosion of 20 years ago with amp-crushing era peerage, including the group’s definitive cover of the Dicks’ “Hate the Police” and 1990 Sonic Youth split-single scare “Halloween.” Seventy excoriating minutes live in Berlin and Santa Barbara, Calif., also from ’88, will collapse your Eustachian tubes.

***.5

This article appears in June 20 • 2008.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.