Born in Scotland 38 years ago, this Garbage singer is known as “frog eyes” and loves to watch the NBA and use the “C” word. Your self-portrait says “Le Mepris.” What Does That Mean? Le Mépris is a French movie by Jean-Luc Godard. I was watching it while I was drawing the picture. It means […]
Call it the eight-year itch. After recording and touring together since 1995, the four members of Garbage nearly called it quits two years ago. “We were on the verge of collapse,” Garbage drummer and noted producer Butch Vig says. He says that when the band began recording its fourth album in early 2003, the process […]
Garbage have been making smart hard-pop records about desire and disaster, breaking up and starting over, for precisely a decade. It does not come easy for them. Bleed Like Me is only their fourth album in those ten years — their first since 2001’s Beautifulgarbage — and making it was nearly the end of them. […]
Bleed Like Me very nearly never existed. With inter-band relationships reaching boiling point during recording, drummer Butch Vig announced that he’d had enough. Thank god he had a change of heart, because this is the most exciting, touching, and most painfully human material they’ve put out in years. The key, as ever, is Shirley Manson. […]
Like the transvestite with a hidden surprise for all the businessmen sitting at the bar, Garbage has consistently tricked proud rockers into buying pop music. The genre-defying quartet’s pop has always been neatly tucked away beneath a coat of guitars and frenzied electronic programming—anyone who thinks “Stupid Girl” and “Special” aren’t pop songs is kidding […]
After 2001’s Beautifulgarbage, an interesting mix of electronic rock with 60s-inspired girl-group melodies, Garbage returns with their hardest single ever. “Why Do You Love Me” amps up the electric guitars unlike anything they’ve done since their 1995 debut. Singer Shirley Manson is as awesome as ever, singing the verses with pop pleasantness, then powering through […]
Stuff Magazine has reviewed ‘Bleed Like Me’ and given it 5 stars. Highest rating possible. They named it Album of the Month: “Garbage front woman Shirley Manson must have plowed through a lot of personal trash in the past three years, judging from the tone of “Bleed Like Me”, the band’s new album. Either that, […]
UK newspaper Sunday Times has a free magazine with Shirley on the cover: Culture. On the article, Shirley talks about the recording process of Bleed Like Me, women in rock music, her lack of physical confidence, her vocal chords cirurgy. Regarding Bleed Like Me, the article reads: Bleed Like Me opens with the furious, high-octane […]