After quickly selling out residencies in New York and London last fall and releasing its first new music in 30 years, the reunited Bob Mould-led rock trio Sugar has confirmed an extensive 2026 tour and unveiled another new song, “Long Live Love.” See the Lee Gregory-directed video below.
Mould says he wrote the track in 2007 while living in Washington, D.C. “It was the George W. Bush era, I was deep in my DJ world with Blowoff, yet still writing pop songs on guitars,” he recalls. “Garbage 2.0 is one of my desert island albums, so it’s not surprising that ‘Long Live Love’ reminds me of a long lost Garbage song.” “Long Live Love” will serve as the B-side of the physical “House of Dead Memories” single, which will be released May 1 by BMG.
As for Sugar’s return to the live stage for the first time since 1995, the group will first play three shows in New York and two in London before beginning the tour in earnest May 26 in Dublin. As of now, the reunion is scheduled to wind down Oct. 24 in Barbe’s Athens, Ga., home base. Click here for tickets.
Despite its short lifespan during the height of grunge, Sugar provided Mould, now 64, a crucial bridge back into playing in a rock band after he’d spent the initial years after the demise of Hüsker Dü recording and performing solo. The group is best-known for the single “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” from the 1992 debut album Copper Blue and went on to release the ferocious 1993 EP Beaster and the 1994 full-length File Under: Easy Listening before disbanding amicably.
Here are Sugar’s tour dates:
May 2nd | New York, NY – Webster Hall [sold out]
May 3rd | New York, NY – Webster Hall [sold out]
May 4th | New York, NY – Webster Hall [sold out]
May 23rd | London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town [sold out]
May 24th | London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town [sold out]
May 26th | Belfast, UK – Ulster Hall
May 27th | Dublin, IE – National Stadium
May 29th | Manchester, UK – New Century Hall
May 30th | Bristol, UK – Electric Bristol
May 31st | Nottingham, UK – Rock City
Jun 2nd | Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
Jun 3rd | Leeds, UK – Irish Centre
Jun 4th | London, UK – Clapham Grand
Jun 7th | Oslo, NO – Rockerfeller
Jun 9th | Stockholm, SE – Debaser Strand
Jun 10th | Copenhagen, DK – Vega
Jun 11th | Berlin, DE – Huxleys
Jun 13th | Paris, FR – Elysee Montmartre
Jun 14th | Antwerp, BE – De Roma
Jun 15th | Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg
Jun 17th | Lausanne, CH – Les Dock
Jun 19th | Álava, ES – Azkena Rock Festival
Aug 11th | Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
Aug 15th | Seattle, WA – Paramount
Sep 10th | Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Sep 11th | Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Sep 26th | San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
Sep 30th | Los Angeles, CA – Palladium
Oct 8th | Detroit, MI – Masonic Jack White Cathedral Theatre
Oct 9th | Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
Oct 10th | Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
Oct 12th | Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Oct 13th | Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Oct 14th | Washington, DC – The Anthem
Oct 16th | Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Oct 17th | Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Oct 18th | Hudson, NY – Basilica Hudson
Oct 20th | Cincinnati, OH – MCL Pavilion (Indoors)
Oct 21st | Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
Oct 23rd | Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Oct 24th | Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre