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Garbage news on your phone

A new site, popnews247.com, is offering to send news on your favourite band to your cell phone for free (by SMS text message), including Garbage. I Don’t know all the terms and conditions on the service, so you might wanna check that out.

Shirley joins MAC AIDS Fund

Yesterday, MAC Cosmetics announced the latest spokespersons for VIVA GLAM IV lipstick: Music legend and outspoken AIDS activist Elton John, Grammy Award winner Mary J. Blidge and rock icon Shirley Manson of the band Garbage.Since its creation in 1994, VIVA GLAM lipsticks have been the primary fund-raising tool for the MAC AIDS Fund. To date, […]

Garbage out of 2001 Spin’s top

For the first year, Garbage will not appear on SPIN Magazine’s Top 20 albums of the year, the most coveted Top 20 list of albums released during each year. In 1995 Garbage landed on spot #11 with “garbage” and in 1998 land in the #8 with “Version 2.0? and this will be the first year […]

5 NEW U2 DATES ADDED

Garbage got invited to open 5 new dates for the U2 Elevation tour in the US. Here are the cities the are gonna play, and when: Nov 27th – Kansas City, MO – Kemper Arena Nov 28th – St. Louis, MO – Savvis Center Nov 30th – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena Dec 1st – […]

Butch Vig Chooses Best Albums

Butch Vig has chosed his 10 albums of 2001 for some music magazines that have requested him this list: 1. Pete Yorn, Musicforthemorningafter 2. U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind 3. Sparklehorse It’s a Wonderful Life 4. Crystal Method Tweekend 5. Joseph Arthur, Come To Where I’m From 6. The Stokes Is This It […]

Shirley Manson Credits Modeling Experience

GARBAGE frontwoman Shirley Manson calls her experience as a Calvin Klein model “the beginning of my life”. The 34-year-old rock star had suffered from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a disease in which sufferers are convinced they are unattractive, since she was a child, and yet when Klein chose her to appear in his 1999 poster […]

Shirley dyed her hair blonde

Shirley is now a blonde. She dyed her hair to the video for the new single, “Cherry Lips”. She has a even more androgynous look to her, and the video is expected to be very good.

Garbage sued for Copyright Infringement for ‘ITIP’

The members of Garbage have new legal woes now that they have been slapped with a lawsuit from a music-publishing company that claims the group unlawfully copied “significant elements of both lyrics and music” of the 1967 song by American Breed, “Bend Me, Shape Me,” for its own “I Think I’m Paranoid.” Garbage’s song appears […]