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Garbage: Version 2.0

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1998

THERE ARE surprisingly few bands like Garbage, bands operating in that shadowy, uncertain zone between the flesh of rock and the metal of techno. They're ...

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Garbage: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 30 January 1999

VERSION INCISION ...

Don Waller's top albums of 2001

Review by Don Waller, Rolling Stone, 26 December 2001

1. Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (Columbia): To paraphrase what the man himself said, "Don't compare this with my old records — compare this with ...

Albums from Van Halen, Superdrag and Garbage

Review by James Hunter, New York Observer, 18 May 1998

Is Rock Dead? No, It's Just Morphing ...

Garbage: Modern Life is Rubbish

Interview by Steven Daly, The Face, September 1996

ONCE SHE WAS just another washed-up indie singer from Edinburgh. Then fate, MTV and three American rock musos intervened, and now Shirley Manson finds the ...

Garbage: Version 2.0 (Mushroom)

Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 9 May 1998

IN OUR post-Prodigy, post-Marilyn Manson times, it feels almost churlish to criticise Garbage's impeccably tailored cybergoth rocktronica. So maybe they are the Disco Tin Machine ...

Garbage: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 27 March 1996

Why the charts are a load of rubbish ...

Garbage: Astoria, London

Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 15 November 2001

New songs, new confidence ...

White Trash: Shirley Manson

Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 8 November 2001

Shirley Manson, pop's most famous redhead, has suddenly gone blonde. A new look to match her new outlook. ...

Garbage: Life is Modern Rubbish

Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 18 March 1995

You may not have heard of GARBAGE, but you WILL have heard of Butch Vig, the God who produced Nirvana's Nevermind. And now you're going ...

Garbage: Scala, London

Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 31 March 2005

IN RECENT WEEKS it has become de rigueur for big names to launch their new album with small dates in London. Last night, after club-sized ...

Garbage: Version 2.0 (Mushroom)

Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998

LET'S GET MUCKY! ...

The Young Pretenders

Report by Susan Corrigan, The Guardian, 17 July 1996

Susan Corrigan talks to the teenagers with stars in their eyes. ...

Garbage: Return of the Muck!

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 March 1998

Take some scary spiders, a few mad mutts, a sound akin to the Pet Shop Boys on downers and, er, eye of SHIRLEY MANSON, and ...

Garbage: Fillmore, San Francisco

Live Review by Clare Kleinedler, Addicted To Noise, May 1996

THE NAME GARBAGE, for a band, is so, um...cartoon-like. That name is like the ACME of all band names...like you could completely see Angela of ...

Garbage: Go On, Manson

Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 11 July 1998

SHE MAY LOOK like an angel, but behind the exterior lies and acidic tongue, waiting to be unleashed. We meet Shirley from GARBAGE on the ...

Garbage: Singin' In The Rain

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 7 October 1995

GARBAGE, the band formed by Nirvana producer Butch Vig, are like a black cloud looming over the fluorescent landscape of current pop and their current ...

Garbage: The Road To Hell

Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 1996

"FRIED." "Deep-fried." "Crispy." "Lo-fi." "Super lo-fi." ...

Garbage: Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom)*****

Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, November 2001

THIRD AND arguably best album yet from Madison's finest. ...

Garbage: Cash For Questions With Shirley Manson

Interview by David Quantick, Q, June 2000

Chair throwing, coprophagy, sniffing Courtney Love... and that's just you lot – arf! Garbage's fiery songstress would much rather relax with Ravel and some GM ...

Garbage: What Do You Think Of It So Far?

Interview by David Quantick, Q, June 1998

Garbage! They've sold millions of albums, but they wonder if that's a good thing when Steve Marker's gone stir crazy, Shirley Manson is shackled and ...

Garbage: Trash Aesthetics

Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 1 May 1998

'Only Happy When It Rains', 'Queer', 'Subhuman'. And those are just the titles of Garbage's harrowing songs. Caroline Sullivan on a band with a troubled ...

Garbage: Return of the Muck!

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 21 March 1998

Take some scary spiders, a few mad mutts, a sound akin to the Pet Shop Boys on downers and, er, eye of Shirley Manson, and ...

Garbage: Clean Sweep

Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1995

Garbage's masterminds craft murky pop into an album that's impossible to refuse ...

Garbage: Litter from America!

Interview by Steven Wells, Vox, April 1996

SAN FRANCISCO: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is being projected onto the fire curtain while the stage is being prepared for Garbage. The soundless ...

The Last Word: Shirley Manson

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, December 1995

LAST MAN YOU FANTASISED ABOUT? ...

Heart Of Garbage: Inside The Manson Family

Report and Interview by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, 2001

MADISON, WISCONSIN, USA. June 7, 2001. Take a walk down East Washington Avenue, past the Pontiac workshops, car dealerships, gas stations and establishments with names ...

Garbage: Version 2.0

Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 1998

"I'LL TELL you something," offers Shirley Manson conspiratorially at the start of this second load of Garbage, "I am a wolf, but I like to ...

Garbage

Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, 1995

WILD LUCK, cynical suspicion, deep fraternal love and dodgy Scottish accents: in the true life story of a musical group called Garbage all these things ...

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