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‘Cherry Lips’ on Radio Comercial 2002 Top

Throughout December, Radio Comercial in Portugal listeners voted on line and put together the list of the 50 best songs of the year. More than 3000 votes later, the result is obvious: U2’s Electrical Storm was the song of the year with around 2400 votes. Garbage’s Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) reached 39th. (source: Rádio […]

Duke “Rock and Roll Experience” interview

“Rock n Roll Experience” recently inteview Duke about the new album and other subjects. You can read the whole interview here. Here are some bits of the interview: Rock N Roll Experience (Q): Will there be a Live CD or DVD from Garbage any time soon? Duke: No, no time soon, we really wanted to […]

Garbage plans for 2003. ‘Album title TBC’

In Shirley Manson’s eyes, 2002 was Garbage’s “black year”, a year when legal hassles, record company bullshit and illness – specifically drummer Butch Vig’s debilitating viral infection – took much of the joy out of a heavy promotional schedule for their ‘beautifulgarbage’ album. This month, the Madison, Wisconsin quartet will bid to put such troubles […]

Garbage to start working on new songs

Once the new year hits, it’s back to the studio for the band, creating the follow-up to 2001’s beautifulgarbage. We asked drummer and producer extrordinare Butch Vig if they had anything ready for when the time comes. “We spent a little bit of time right before we started the No Doubt tour and went in […]

Shirley on Kerrang! yearbook

Shirley is one of the celebrities on the 2002 Kerrang’s Yearbook. Besides the wonderful pic, there’s an interview talking about the subjects more controversial to Shirley on 2002, like the comercial failure, Nickleback’s Chad Kroeger, Christina Aguilera and Eminem. (source: peshep)

Sonic Youth get “Dirty” again

A deluxe two-CD reissue of Sonic Youth’s 1992 recording, Dirty, will be released on March 4th. The album will include eleven previously unreleased rehearsals and demos as well as a handful of b-sides. Dirty marked a new phase for the band. After releasing their first six albums independently, Sonic Youth signed with Geffen and issued […]

Butch Vig on the Pumpkin’s “Vieuphoria”

The Smashing Pumpkins have released the DVD and CD of the 1994 VHS release “Vieuphoria”. The ‘pig’ in the foreground of this release is none other than Butch Vig. The video and DVD also contains a Spinal Tap-esque ‘interview’ with him. This was recorded on the 1994 “Siamese Dream” tour, album that Butch co-produced with […]

beautifulgarbage era b-sides poll results

The Garbage Box poll on “What’s your favourite beautifugarbage era b-side” has ended. Now, you can vote on the best year for Garbage so far. The result was: Sex Never Goes Out Of Fashion (23%); Enough Is Never Enough (22%); Use Me (22%); Begging Bone (7%); Confidence (6%); April Tenth (6%); Happiness Pt.2 (5%); I’m […]