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Rolling Stone Network and JamTV webchat

Rolling Stone Network and JamTV completed a webchat and webcast of Garbage’s gig from The Riviera in Chicago, Illinois on November 25. JamTV maxed out their chat room capacity for the first time ever! Over 500 people tried to chat with Garbage which crashed JamTV’s chat server!!

Garbage Offer E-Mail Service

Electronic-pop band Garbage and synth-pop group Depeche Mode are offering their fans free, Web-based e-mail accounts. Fans can sign up for the services through www.garbagemail.com and www.depechemodemail.com — the same domain names that will appear in users’ new e-mail accounts. The artists created the services through partnerships with the Internet-commerce companies OneSoft and Electric Artists, […]

Garbage On “Gran Turismo (The Real Driving Simulation)” Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Sony Playstation’s racing game “Gran Turismo (The Real Driving Simulation)” features tracks by such diverse artists as David Bowie, Garbage, the Dandy Warhols, Blur, Supergrass and Ash. The Sound of Gran Turismo is in stores today. Track listing: Garbage’s “As Heaven Is Wide”; David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters”; Ash’s “Loose Control”; Blur’s “Chinese […]

Garbage wins nothing at MTV Europe Music Awards

Garbage was nominated for 3 awards in the Mtv Europe Music Awards. They did not win any of the nominations the got. The following are the categories in which they were nominated and lost: Best Group Video – Spice Girls Best Rock Act – Aerosmith Best Video of the Year – Massive attack

Getting dirty with Garbage

By Donna Freydkin Special to CNN Interactive (CNN) — Two men who should know better stare with dazed rapture at a tiny woman with pale, pale skin, crimson lips and blazing red hair pulled back in a ponytail, curled up in a chair and sipping coffee in the lobby of an anonymous business hotel on […]

Broadcast.com live Internet webchat

Broadcast.com hosted a live Internet webchat with Garbage to promote their live Internet webcast from Dallas, TX at the Bronco Bowl on October 15. It drew the largest audience for a chat in Broadcast.com’s history. Total attendance was 5,268 people chatting simultaneously. The second largest chat for Broadcast.com was the New York Yankees, which drew […]

The Garbage Man

Before forming Garbage, drummer Butch Vig was a superstar producer who worked with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and U2. Before being a superstar producer, he played in and produced records for punk bands like Killdozer and Les Thugs. The Madison, Wis.-based Garbage has since sold millions of records and their eponymous debut earned four Grammy nominations. […]