By Steph Jorgl | May 2005 This is a really huge guitar record for us,” says Butch Vig, producer, drummer and songwriter for Garbage. Vig put his name on the map when he produced Nirvana’s ground-breaking Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. The new Garbage record — released in April 2005 — is called Bleed […]
Butch Vig was the premier producer of the alternative rock boom of the early 1990s, helming records for bands including Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth, before finding success as a performer with the group Garbage. Born in the small dairy farm community of Viroqua, Wisconsin, Vig studied piano as a child, picking up the […]
(5/3/00, 1 p.m. ET) – Garbage is back in the studio working on a follow-up album to 1998’s Version 2.0. The band united recently after a four-month hiatus to begin work on a collection of B-sides and remixes; however, after a few meetings, they decided to start work on a third album containing all-new material […]
Drag those amps to the garage and prepare to annoy the neighbors. This fall the JANE CD is once again for readers, by readers. If you’re in an unsigned band, lsubmit your original music, written by you. Here’s the deal: * Your music will be listened to and judged by Shirley Manson. * Maybeline New […]
TORONTO – Garbage’s formidable frontwoman Shirley Manson sits on a chair in a Toronto hotel room yesterday wearing a tiny red T-shirt that says, “Redheads have more fun.” The striking 38-year-old Edinburgh native with intense green eyes who packs a sexy wallop on stage claims her groupies are never of the male variety. “I get […]
1. From the leftfield pop anthems ‘Queer’ through to ‘Androgyny’, Garbage has always had an eye on the steamy and fluid side of bisexuality. Flirting with the gays is one of our favourite hobbies you know. 2. Shirley Manson, queen bitch frontwoman and allround mouthy bird oozes star quality like most folk ooze grease. She […]
Garbage had the last laugh as they exited stage right prior to their April 21st encore at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. The band had breezed through a particularly stellar set and treated fans to an encore of Metal Heart and Cherry Lips when, at the end of Sex Is Not the Enemy, Shirley […]
Knitting, mortgages and respect for J-Lo – has self-proclaimed rock’n’roll high priestess Shirley Manson lost her cutting edge? Neil Lewis gets intimate…. “Everybody thinks I’m going to be a cunt”, says Shirley Manson and then laughs mischievously, reclining among a clutter of sofa cushions in her salubrious suite at Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel. “But I’m […]