“It is rare to be amongst such collective beauty,” gushed slightly delirious host Winona Ryder Thursday at Index Magazine’s Night With JT LeRoy and Friends, a tribute to the 23-year-old gay “It boy” ’s literary and celebrity status (Winona called him “the beautiful JT,” while Garbage’s Shirley Manson wryly designated JT “our little genius”). Manson, […]
Matt Chamberlain, the drummer that replaced Butch Vig on some concerts of the last tour, said on his official site that he “…..had a day off in Madison and the Garbage people were in town recording their record…Shirly ann Manson picked me up and I went to their studio for lunch and some chit chat,I […]
Index Magazine presents a night with JT Leroy and Friends, on April 17th, 2003 7-10 pm at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC, USA. There will be a reading of Jt LeRoy’s work and a performance by his band, Thistle. The list of readers include Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson, Liz Phair and Bijou Phillips, […]
Shirley Manson participated at the anual Oscars Party, organized by the Elton John fundation, that fights against AIDS, co-patricionated by In Style and AOL, in association with MAC Cosmetica and Global Naps. The party had the goal of raising funds, and was thrown in Hollywood, during the 75th Oscar cerymony. (source: beautifulgirl2.0 / peshep / […]
Butch Vig shows you why a little software program is making studio owners nervous I’ve long thought that only one thing stood between me and rock stardom: musical talent. But now that I’m sitting in Butch Vig’s basement, recording my first single, that doesn’t seem like such a great obstacle anymore. What technological miracle has […]
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 […]