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Feb 13, 2023

Two titans of ’90s alternative rock, Garbage and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (aka former Oasis guitarist/singer/songwriter Noel Gallagher) have joined forces for a co-headlining North American tour this summer. Canada’s Metric will be the support act. More

Dec 02, 2021

Arca has released the latest album in the KICK series, kick iiii, today via XL. The album features guest appearances from Garbage’s Shirley Manson, Oliver Coates, Planningtorock, and No Bra. More

Tears For Fears Announce North American Leg of Tour, Garbage to Be Supporting Act

The Tipping Point Due Out February 25, 2022 via Concord

Nov 12, 2021

Tears For Fears (seminal new wave duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith) have announced the North American leg of their upcoming world tour in support of their new album, The Tipping Point, which is out on February 25, 2022 via Concord. Garbage is set to be the supporting act for the North American leg. More

Sep 22, 2021

Welcome to Why Not Both Wednesdays. Every week, in partnership with Why Not Both podcast, we’ll be presenting new podcast episodes that explore how multiple passions inform the inspiring lives of musicians, writers, actors, and creatives. This week we caught up with Shirley Manson, the absolute force of nature, frontwoman of Garbage and host of The Jump. More

Garbage – Stream the New Album and Read Our New Interview with Shirley Manson

No Gods No Masters Out Now via Stunvolume/Infectious Music

Jun 11, 2021

Garbage have released a new album, No Gods No Masters, today via Stunvolume/Infectious Music. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Wednesday we posted our new interview with the band’s Shirley Manson about the album. More

Garbage Share Animated Video for New Song “Wolves”

No Gods No Masters Due Out June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music

May 19, 2021

Garbage are releasing a new album, No Gods No Masters, on June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music. Now the band have shared another song from it, “Wolves,” via an animated video for the single. More

Garbage Share Video for New Song “No Gods No Masters”

No Gods No Masters Due Out June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music

Apr 28, 2021

Garbage are releasing a new album, No Gods No Masters, on June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music. Now the band have shared its title track, “No Gods No Masters,” via a video for it. More

Garbage Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “The Men Who Rule the World”

No Gods No Masters Due Out June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music

Mar 30, 2021

Garbage have announced a new album, No Gods No Masters, which will be out on June 11 via Stunvolume/Infectious Music. The band has also shared a video for the album’s lead single, “The Men Who Rule the World,” which was directed by Chilean visual artist Javi.MiAmor. More

Sep 04, 2020

Twenty-five years ago Garbage released their eponymous debut album. It took the world by storm and became the definitive alternative rock album that propelled Garbage to become one of the most successful acts of the late ’90s and beyond. More

Alanis Morissette Announces “Jagged Little Pill” Tour and New Album, Shares New Song

Listen to “Reasons I Drink” from Such Pretty Forks in the Road; Tour to Feature Garbage and Liz Phair

Dec 02, 2019

Alanis Morissette has announced a 2020 tour where she will perform her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill in honor of its 25th anniversary. She has also announced a new album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, and shared its first single, “Reasons I Drink.” Support on the tour will include Garbage and Liz Phair. More

Jun 12, 2018

1990s alternative rock legends Garbage are releasing a 20th anniversary reissue of their 1998 sophomore album, Version 2.0, on June 22 via Stunvolume/[PIAS]. Frontwoman Shirley Manson has agreed to take part in our Fan Interview and we previously invited the band’s fans to submit their questions. More

Submit Your Questions to Shirley Manson for Our Garbage Fan Interview

Version 2.0 Reissue Due Out June 22 via Stunvolume/[PIAS]

Jun 01, 2018

1990s alternative rock legends Garbage are releasing a 20th anniversary reissue of their 1998 sophomore album, Version 2.0, on June 22 via Stunvolume/[PIAS]. Frontwoman Shirley Manson has agreed to take part in our Fan Interview and we invite the band’s fans to submit their questions. You have until Monday, June 11 to email us your question ideas. More

Garbage Announce “Version 2.0” 20th Anniversary U.S. Tour Dates

Version 2.0 Reissue Due Out June 22 via Stunvolume/[PIAS]

Apr 23, 2018

1990s alternative rock legends Garbage are releasing a 20th anniversary reissue of their 1998 sophomore album, Version 2.0, on June 22 via Stunvolume/[PIAS]. Now they have announced some U.S. tour dates in honor of the reissue. More

Mar 28, 2018

1990s alternative rock icons Garbage have announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their 1998 sophomore album, Version 2.0, which has sold four million copies worldwide to date. It includes a second disc of 10 B-sides. The band has shared one of those B-sides, rarity “Lick the Pavement.” More

Premiere: Garbage “Only Happy When It Rains (rare acoustic version)” from The Glamour & The Squalor

Soundtrack available November 3, features rare performances by alternative-era all stars

Oct 23, 2017

Releasing digitally on November 3rd and on CD December 1st from Lakeshore Records, The Glamour & The Squalor Original Soundtrack features rare radio performances from Collins’ show, including cuts by Garbage, Sebadoh, Death Cab for Cutie, Mudhoney, and others. More

Garbage Share Politically Charged “No Horses” Video

All Proceeds from the Song Go to the Red Cross

Aug 02, 2017

1990s legends Garbage recently shared a brand new song, “No Horses.” Now the band have shared a video for the song. The video features frontwoman Shirley Manson singing the song in a white dress, intercut with politically charged images of protests, riot police, starving children, and horses. More

Garbage Share Moody New Song - “No Horses”

Currently on a Co-Headlining Tour with Blondie

Jul 14, 2017

1990s legends Garbage, who released a new album, Strange Little Birds, last year via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME, are currently on a co-headlining tour with ‘70s icons Blondie. In honor of the tour, Garbage has shared a moody new song, “No Horses,” which is out now via all digital retailers. More

Garbage Announce Autobiographical Coffee Table Book and Live 12-Inch Vinyl

This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake Due Out July 4 via Akashic Books

Feb 22, 2017

Garbage, who released a new album, Strange Little Birds, last year via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME, have announced a new autobiographical coffee table book, This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake. It’s due out July 4 via Akashic Books. More

Blondie and Garbage Announce Co-Headlining Tour

Blondie's Pollinator Due Out May 5 via BMG

Feb 08, 2017

Blondie are releasing a new album, Pollinator, on May 5 via BMG. Now the iconic ‘70s band has announced some co-headlining tour dates with ‘90s legends Garbage, who released a new album, Strange Little Birds, last year via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. More

Watch: Garbage Share Spooky “Magnetized” Video

Strange Little Birds Out Now via STUNVOLUME

Oct 05, 2016

Garbage released a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, back in June via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now, just a few weeks before Halloween, they have shared a spooky new video for “Magnetized.” It features front-woman Shirley Manson as both a witch and a mad scientist, among other creepy things. More

Garbage Announce New Fall Tour Dates

Strange Little Birds Out Now via STUNVOLUME

Jul 18, 2016

Garbage released a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, back in June via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now they have announced some new U.S. tour dates. They go down this September and are below (along with their previously announced dates), followed by the band’s video for “Empty.” More

Jun 21, 2016

Garbage just released a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Last night the band stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform single “Empty,” which you can watch below. They also did a web-exclusive performance of “Push It,” from 1998’s Version 2.0, which you can watch here.

Watch/Listen: Garbage - “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed” Lyric Video

Strange Little Birds Due Out June 10 via STUNVOLUME

May 27, 2016

Garbage are releasing a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, on June 10 via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now they have shared another song from it, the ballad “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed,” via a lyric video that features nature shots of predators and prey before the song climaxes with images of predators vs. predators. More

May 25, 2016

Dum Dum Girls frontwoman/main creative force Dee Dee previously announced a new solo project called Kristin Kontrol. Dee Dee’s real name is Kristin Welchez, hence the name of her new project, and Kristin Kontrol’s debut album, X-Communicate, is due out this Friday, May 27, via Sub Pop. Now she’s announced some June tour dates in support of the album. More

Watch: Garbage - “Empty” Video

Strange Little Birds Due Out June 10 via STUNVOLUME

May 23, 2016

Garbage are releasing a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, on June 10 via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now the previously shared single “Empty” has a video. Sam Bayer directed the colorful clip, which features lots of shots of the camera spinning around the band as they perform the song in an empty room. Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates. More

Garbage Announce More Tour Dates

Strange Little Birds Due Out June 10 via STUNVOLUME

May 02, 2016

Garbage are releasing a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, on June 10 via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now they have announced a slew of more U.S. tour dates in support of it. Check them out below, followed by their full list of dates and the recently shared single “Empty.” More

Listen: Garbage – “Empty”

Strange Little Birds Due Out June 10 via STUNVOLUME

Apr 20, 2016

Garbage are releasing a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, on June 10 via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. Now they have shared a new song from it, “Empty.” “‘Empty’ is just exactly what it says it is. A song about emptiness,” said frontwoman Shirley Manson in a press release. More

Garbage Announce New Album, “Strange Little Birds”

Strange Little Birds Due Out June 10 via STUNVOLUME

Mar 10, 2016

Garbage have announced a brand new album, Strange Little Birds, for release on June 10 via the band’s own label STUNVOLUME. It’s the follow-up to 2012’s Not Your Kind of People. Here is the tracklist and cover art, as well as some tour dates. More

Listen: TORRES – “Special” (Garbage Cover)

TORRES Opening for Garbage on Their “20 Years of Queer Tour”

Oct 02, 2015

Next week Garbage embarks on their “20 Years of Queer Tour,” in which they will play in its entirety their 1995-released excellent self-titled debut album. TORRES (aka MacKenzie Scott) will be the support act on the U.S. leg of the tour and in honor of that she has shared a new cover of Garbage’s “Special,” which is actually a song from the band’s 1998-released sophomore album. Scott’s take is rawer and more immediate than the original. More

Garbage Announce 20th Anniversary Reissue of Debut Album, Share Previously Unreleased Track

Garbage: 20th Anniversary Edition Due Out October 2, Listen to "Subhuman (Supersize Mix)"

Sep 02, 2015

Garbage previously announced the “20 Years of Queer Tour” in which they will play in its entirety their 1995-released excellent self-titled debut album (which featured the singles “Queer,” “Only Happy When It Rains,” “Stupid Girl,” “Vow,” and “Milk”). Now the band (Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig) have officially announced Garbage: 20th Anniversary Edition, a reissue of the debut album. More

Under the Radar Announces August/September Issue with CHVRCHES on the Cover

Issue 54 Also Includes Interviews with New Order, Garbage, Foals, Beirut, Jesse Eisenberg, Low, FFS, Destroyer, Wolf Alice, Tamaryn, the Casts of Fear the Walking Dead and Wet Hot American Summer, and More

Aug 07, 2015

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the August/September 2015 issue, which is available digitally now (via Under the Radar‘s app and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug), has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It features CHVRCHES on the cover. Garbage’s Shirley Manson discusses the 20th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. We talk to the creators and various cast members of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. Star Cliff Curtis and producer Gale Anne Hurd talk about The Walking Dead companion series Fear the Walking Dead. The issue also includes interviews with Beach House, New Order, Foals, Beirut, Jesse Eisenberg, Low, FFS, Destroyer, Wolf Alice, Tamaryn, Telekinesis, Ducktails, DRINKS, Briana Marela, LA Priest, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Chelsea Wolfe, and more. More

Garbage to Perform 1995 Debut Album in Its Entirety on U.S. and European Tours

"20 Years of Queer Tour" This October and November; TORRES and Dutch Uncles to Support

Jun 08, 2015

1995 was a pretty great year for music, with classic albums from Björk, The Cardigans, Elastica, Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, and many others. It was also the year that Garbage released their excellent self-titled debut album. More

Apr 22, 2014

Because Record Store Day is the gift that just keeps giving, check out Garbage’s contribution to the yearly event. More

Jul 11, 2012

Are you in Omaha, Nebraska? In the mood for some music? We’ve got your way into the Maha Musical Festival in Omaha, Nebraska, taking place Saturday, August 11. The fest features Dum Dum Girls, Mynabirds, Garbage, Desaparecidos, and more.

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Check Out Photos from KJEE Summer Roundup 2012

At the Santa Barbara Bowl, June 1, 2012

Jun 29, 2012

Click here to check out photos from the KJEE Summer Roundup 2012 at the Santa Barbara Bowl, June 1, 2012. More

Apr 04, 2012

With their new album Not Your Kind of People set for release on April 15, the recently un-hiatused Garbage premiered a grainy black-and-white music video for the album’s lead single “Blood For Poppies.” More

Listen: Garbage - “Blood For Poppies”

Off Not Your Kind of People

Mar 15, 2012

The first full taste of Garbage‘s forthcoming new album Not Your Kind of People has surfaced online this morning in the form of a new track called “Blood for Poppies.” More

Garbage Preview New Song “I Hate Love”

Off New Album Not Your Kind Of People

Feb 16, 2012

After winning big at the Grammys alongside the Foo Fighters thanks to his production work on the band’s latest album Wasting Light, Butch Vig has clearly turned his attention back to his reunited band Garbage, releasing a snippet of a song called “I Hate Love.” More

Garbage Announce First New Album In Seven Years

Not Your Kind of People Out May 15

Jan 30, 2012

A reunited Garbage has announced that they will be releasing Not Your Kind of People, their first new album since 2005’s Bleed Like Me More



Interviews

Jun 09, 2021

Shirley Manson, who is the frontperson for the platinum-selling rock band, Garbage, has both learned and done quite a bit in the 25 years she’s been in the public eye. More

Oct 08, 2015

When Shirley Manson auditioned for Garbage in 1994, it was a famously ill-fated first tryout with fellow Garbage band members Butch Vig, Steve Marker, and Duke Erikson that almost left the partnership aborted before it began. She had already completed stints in two bands, Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie and Angelfish. More


Reviews

Jul 08, 2021

There was a time when Garbage sounded like the future with their industrial-tinged arena-sized electro grunge pop. The world has finally caught up and on their seventh studio album, No Gods No Masters, Garbage sound very much like a band of the now. More

Jun 28, 2018

Three years after the electronic-tinged rock of their 1995 self-titled debut made them a worldwide name, Garbage returned with its highly anticipated follow-up. If its title suggested Version 2.0 was more of the same, it was actually a starker, darker record than its predecessor. More

Aug 11, 2016

On a Saturday night in Philadelphia, Garbage brought the rock.

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Jun 23, 2016

Indie music fandom 101 tells us that commercial success is overrated. Strange Little Birds, Garbage‘s first album in four years since Not Your Kind of People, though, is the lowest-charting of their career and perhaps this is telling: for it does feel like their least essential. More

May 18, 2012

In the drought since their last full-length album Bleed Like Me was released in 2005, Garbage has left fans reeling from quite a seven-year itch. It’s not that the members (Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker) had gone into creative hibernation-Vig was busy producing, taking home a Grammy for Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown; Manson was acting out with a leading role in the short-lived TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when not working on her yet-to-be-released solo album; and the band itself released a greatest hits compilation Absolute Garbage in 2007 to quell the pressure for new music amid an indefinite hiatus. More