Garbage, Travis frontman Fran Healy, Beth Orton, Paul Weller, Faithless, Ian McCullochand, Evan Dando and comedian Mark Thomas, amongst others, will play the bill for ‘ONE BIG NO’ anti-war gig in London this weekend (March 15) at Shepherds Bush Empire. The event will feature each artist performing acoustic sets, with an emphasis on collaborations. Ian […]
Garbage are to appear on the forthcoming Jools Holland DVD “Later… LOUDER”, including the track “I think I’m Paranoid” and an interview recorded in May 1999. This UK Region 2 DVD will be released by Warner Music Vision on May 5th, and is a a collection of Later with Jools Holland greatest rock music performances. […]
The new book “Famous Wisconsin Musicians”, by Madison music journalist and disc jockey Susan Masino impressively researches and documents the career stories of 32 state musicians, singers and groups, and provides more than 100 thumbnail sketches of other notable Badger music-makers. The profiles include Liberace, Steve Miller, Richard Davis, Ben Sidran, Al Jarreau, Eric Benet, […]
Brody Armstrong of The Distillers praises Shirley in the current Request magazine. The Distillers are featured as one of ten “Artists to Watch” for 2003 (p. 23). It contains the following praise of Shirley: MANSON FAMILY VALUES: At the end of last year, the Distillers hit the road for their first big tour, with No […]
Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s classic album Nevermind, didn’t work on the single “You Know You’re Right,” but he did say he was glad the Scott Litt-produced track was released. Vig also added that “You Know You’re Right” was the best, but not the last, of Kurt Cobain’s unreleased music. “It’s a great song. I […]