TORONTO – Garbage’s formidable frontwoman Shirley Manson sits on a chair in a Toronto hotel room yesterday wearing a tiny red T-shirt that says, “Redheads have more fun.” The striking 38-year-old Edinburgh native with intense green eyes who packs a sexy wallop on stage claims her groupies are never of the male variety. “I get […]
1. From the leftfield pop anthems ‘Queer’ through to ‘Androgyny’, Garbage has always had an eye on the steamy and fluid side of bisexuality. Flirting with the gays is one of our favourite hobbies you know. 2. Shirley Manson, queen bitch frontwoman and allround mouthy bird oozes star quality like most folk ooze grease. She […]
Garbage had the last laugh as they exited stage right prior to their April 21st encore at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. The band had breezed through a particularly stellar set and treated fans to an encore of Metal Heart and Cherry Lips when, at the end of Sex Is Not the Enemy, Shirley […]
Knitting, mortgages and respect for J-Lo – has self-proclaimed rock’n’roll high priestess Shirley Manson lost her cutting edge? Neil Lewis gets intimate…. “Everybody thinks I’m going to be a cunt”, says Shirley Manson and then laughs mischievously, reclining among a clutter of sofa cushions in her salubrious suite at Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel. “But I’m […]
Garbage collection: The rock chick talks GQ through her digital playlist click by click “I’m attracted to all the fucked-up artists. They are my touchstones!” So says Shirley Manson, the face and voice of Garbage, the Edinburgh-Wisconsin band that have sold ten million albums since exploding onto the scene in 1995 with ‘Queer’ and ‘Only […]
BUTCH VIG’S SONG PICKS MOTO – “Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio” Two minutes and 17 seconds of pure punk bliss…with a reference to both Jonathan Richman’s Roadrunner and Joy Division’s Transmission, it never fails to shoot adrenaline straight to my heart.
With “Why Do You Love Me” championed by numerous modern rock stations and a second single (the title track) on the way, retailers have high hopes for “Bleed Like Me.” Good news indeed, particularly after the lackluster sales of of “beautifulgarbage.” According to Nielsen SoundScan, the 4 year old album has sold 384,000 copies-compared with […]
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Geffen Records) – “Bleed Like Me,” the fourth album by the band Garbage, makes history today as it enters Billboard’s Album Chart at No 4. The number is the band’s highest ranking in the US in its illustrious career. It comes on the heels of the album’s first single, “Why Do You […]