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 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.
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 […]
Garbage’s lawsuit seeking freedom from Universal Music got a boost as a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge denied the label’s bid to move the trial to New York on Tuesday (April 10). Judge Marvin M. Lager ruled that singer Shirley Manson’s agreement with Radioactive Records in New York signed with her previous band, Angelfish, isn’t […]
To be a true rock star, you gotta give yourself over. Completely. It’s gotta start from a real place that’s got nothing to do with fame or money. It’s gotta be messy – Iggy Pop messy. You gotta stick a tube inside the ugly places and spew it all over. You gotta damn the consequences. […]
Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson has responded to a countersuit filed against her and her bandmates by Universal Music’s Radioactive Records earlier this month, calling her legal hassles “madness and fun,” and joking that the “lackeys” who delivered the suit to her “resembled the baddies out of The Matrix.”
So what does a rock star do to break up the daily toil of recording a highly anticipated album? Well, if you’re Garbage ’s Butch Vig, you curate an art exhibit. In case the “rock & roll thing” doesn’t work out, Vig’s got a pretty solid resume to fall back on. Aside from writing songs […]
The Garbage lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) is garbage, according to a spokesperson for the company. “The case is meritless,” the spokesperson told LAUNCH. No other comments on specifics of the suit were offered. Members of Garbage filed suit against UMG and its affiliated labels in California Superior Court on Monday (January 29) in […]