The Band Garbage Breaking Up?

[KingLouieLouie]

MMMMMMM.... Shirley Manson......

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1497733/20050303/garbage.jhtml?headlines=true

Shirley Manson Gets Ready To Sing And Type On Garbage Tour
03.03.2005 4:56 PM EST

Vocalist will document North American trek on band's Web site.

SANTA MONICA, California — After taking two and half years off from performing, Garbage are desperate to tour again. Really desperate.

"We'll play anywhere: wedding, bar mitzvahs, whatever," bassist/guitarist Steve Marker said "We are totally pumped to get back on the road. ... That's kind of what we do, so it's been weird not to do it," Marker said. "We're doing a little swing around the States to see how the new stuff works onstage and hopefully keep going a long time after that."

That new stuff is from Garbage's fifth album, Bleed Like Me, which the band is calling its most guitar-driven record yet (see "Garbage Breakup Ends With New LP — If They Did Actually Break Up").

"I think they'll be a gas to play live because they have a lot of crazy energy," drummer Butch Vig said of the songs, especially "Metal Heart" and "Boys Wanna Fight." "Sonically, it's a little bit more like the old Garbage stuff. At least in 'Metal Heart' there's a lot of weird electronics that Steve and Duke did, as well as some pretty gnarly guitar. And Shirley's lyrics have a lot of depth to them. They're very much about now and what's going on around us."

As with all Garbage happenings, the tour will be thoroughly documented on the band's Web site by singer Shirley Manson.

"I just do it for a laugh," Manson said. "I love looking back because you forget so quickly, and you're busy doing show after show and interview after interview. You forget it all, and you can look back — I think it is five years I have kept — and you can remember all these outrageous things that have happened to you and these stupid little incidents."

Manson's blog has thousands of readers, but Vig and Erikson aren't among them.

"I don't think they have a clue as to what's in it, although I think Steve checks it out every now and again," Manson said.

"A lot of times that's the only way I know what's going on," Marker joked.

Bleed Like Me, which features the just-released first single, "Why Do You Love Me," is due April 12.

Garbage tour dates, according to Geffen Records:

* 4/10 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
* 4/11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern LG
* 4/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
* 4/16 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
* 4/17 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
* 4/19 - New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* 4/21 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
* 4/24 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
* 4/25 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
* 4/27 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
* 4/28 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
* 5/1 - Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theatre
* 5/4 - Chicago, IL @ Metro



— Corey Moss

 

[Chaplin]

$36.00 to see them at the Wiltern in LA on April 11th. Might have to check them out.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/06/2904.cfm

Garbage's End May Be In Sight
Wednesday June 29, 2005 @ 04:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

by Matt Semansky

If near-death experiences can lead individuals to approach life with a renewed sense of vitality and gratitude, Garbage prove the same thing is true of rock bands. After their third album beautifulgarbage tanked with critics and fans in 2001, the group fell into a creative rut and by 2003 they'd abandoned work on a follow-up record. For a time it looked as though the project of vocalist Shirley Manson and producers Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker had run its course. "I think we were all ready for it to stop, because it turned into such drudgery," says the affable Erikson of his band's troubles. "But once we got some breathing room and listened to the songs we'd been working on, we realized they were a lot better than we thought they were. More than anything, the music brought us back."

And when Garbage returned to the studio in 2004, they came armed with a crucial weapon — fear.

"When we got back together we felt a sense of desperation, like we were losing this band and we had to play as if our lives depended on it," says Vig. "The drums, the guitars, Shirley's singing, all of that got amped up when we got back together."

The results are evident on Bleed Like Me, a record that was almost aborted in the early months of its gestation. While it still features the pop hooks and so-clean-you-could-eat-off-it production that Garbage is known for, it also represents a shift toward a more straightforward rock sound.

"On this record we took a lot of things out of the mix that weren't essential to the songs, whereas on Version 2.0 we would've found a way to squeeze all those things in there," says Vig.

Erikson nods in agreement. "I think we were kind of using those things and weren't doing anything new with them. On this record, wherever we've used atmospherics or loops or samples, we've used them sparingly and hopefully in different ways."

By scaling back the studio trickery, Garbage hope to address one of the most common criticisms leveled at the band since they debuted in 1995 — that their sound is too slick and polished for its own good. Though Erikson says he understands these comments, he feels several critics have missed the point.

"People weren't being fair in that they didn't come to our ground to critique us," Erikson says. "They were viewing us from what they would consider to be a purist approach and we were anything but purists. We were messing with every possible genre you could imagine and having fun with it."

Vig, who was never accused of over-producing when he helmed Nirvana's Nevermind and other grunge-era classics, distills his response to the production criticism into a few blunt words.

"To me, overproduced is when you have a crappy song and you cover it up to hide the fact that it's a stinker," he says. "The songwriting is more important than anything."

With Bleed Like Me, Garbage are out to prove that technical perfectionism and raw passion can co-exist on the same record.

"I think we were approaching that," says Erikson, who is confident yet refreshingly modest about the results. "I don't think we nailed the whole record that way, but it was something we were trying to do.

With the hardship that went into making Bleed Like Me, Vig and Erikson aren't sure whether a fifth album is in the cards.

"I don't know if I wanna make another record," says Vig. "But I might. We'll do this tour and see what the vibe is and how we feel a year from now."

Erikson puts it more philosophically.

"I think we all feel like we've broken out of prison and we're running around the world and it feels so ******* good. And the thought of going back to the cell now is not a pleasant thought."

And if that means the latest Garbage release is also the last, Erikson can live with it.

"We've never looked at it as this eternal thing," he continues. "We can't believe we've been together for 10 years, and the reason is that we always expected it to be one more record, one more tour and then we'll see."