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Shirley says on Christina’s new video

Here’s what Shirley said (on her tour diary) on Christina Aguilera’s latest video: “Cheered myself up by watching the new Christina Aguilera video on the net and it was everything I could ever hope it would be.(Totally and utterly icky.) And I should erect a statue to whoever it was who had the grand idea […]

Version 2.0 on Rolling Stone chart (#92)

The reader’s choice for the 100 greatest CDs of all time has Version 2.0 in the #92 spot. The Rolling Stone issue has a small picture of the CD and quotes from Shirley “I’m no great beauty, I’m no great intellect.” It also says that “Some of the songs were mixed down from more than […]

Garbage vTeam created

The vTeam is a select group of Garbage fans helping to spread the word about the band’s music across the net and beyond. People that complete the missions assigned can earn anything from posters and rare promo CDs – to signed merchandising, backstage concert tickets and more. They want the following people to get involved: […]

VH1’s 100 sexiest stars of all time

VH1 Counts Down Music’s ‘100 Sexiest Artists’ In Five-Hour, Five Night Special, Premiering September 23-27 at 10:00 P.M. (ET/PT). On the list, Shirley Manson is at 60th. In other positions are: Madonna (1st), Elvis Priesley (2nd), Jennifer Lopez (3rd), Christina Aguilera (62nd) and N’SYNC (93rd).

Double platinum and Gold in Australia

New certifications have come through from Australia. Beautifulgarbage has been certified Double Platinum and Cherry Lips has been certified Gold in Australia. Thanks to all the fans in Oz for your support. Garbage have just released a special beautifulgarbage edition for Australia, numbered and limited!

Vanity Fair to be out in November

Shirley will be one of the artists on the cover of the upcoming music issue of Vanity Fair Magazine. The issue is on stands in November. Also on the photo shoot were: Gwen Stefani, Sheryl Crow, Alicia Keys, Eve and 15 more. This pic has Nelly Furtado on the center, and Shirley on the left […]

A Fire Inside (AFI) press release

AFI’s album-in-progress, as yet untitled, is due in 2003. “We’ve never taken this much time between albums. We probably wrote somewhere between 35 and 40 songs. Twenty made it to pre-production, of which 17 are going to be tracked.” The Berkeley, Calif.-based quartet is ensconced in a Hollywood studio with producers Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing […]

Download Garbage’s Kylie Minogue cover

You can download an mp3 with great sound quality of the cover Garbage did live of “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” on LiMBO Kylie Minogue Online | www.kylie.co.uk! Just follow the multimedia link. There, you can also find covers of this track that other bands played live: Electric Soft Parade and The Flaming […]