BEAUTIFULGARBAGE 6TH BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR TO ROLLING STONE

"Rolling Stone" magazine named beautifulgarbage the 6th best album of this year. Pretty good considering the lukewarm review they gave it when the album came out, last October.

LARRY MULLEN WITH GARBAGE

Garbage are still playing with Matt Chamberlain on drums. On December 2nd, Garbage gave the last concert as an opening act for U2. U2's drummer, Larry Mullen showed the band's apretiation by joining Garbage on "Only Happy When It Rains".
According to Shirley, "When Larry Mullen Jnr. joined us on stage and played the closing song of our set with us which happened to be "Only Happy When it Rains", the crowd went OFF and just about lifted the roof right up from the stadium. How can I possibly describe what a thrill it was for us to play with him? We were all grinning like village idiots."
Butch Vig, on the other hand, already participated on U2's music in the past, like on the production of the "Lab Rat" remix for the great "Staring At The Sun" track.

"CHERRY LIPS" VIDEO CENSORED

MTV Europe felt the stamping on the light bulb may encourage dangerous behaviour so they will not play it during certain times of the day; in order to accomodate day-time play they'll have a re-edited version of the video omitting the "light bulb scenes".
On the flip-side the UK record company is also trying to get a completely un-edited version which will include the "shit" lyric (as well as stamping on the light bulbs!). Because of this, UK had decided to move the release date of Cherry Lips to January 21st.
(Thanks to Dukester2 for the scan!)

SHIRLEY ON Q MAGAZINE'S WOMAN OF ROCK TOP

According to Q Magazine poll of top women rock musicians of all time, Shirley Manson ranks 12th!
Before her, we can find: PJ Harvey (1st), Madonna (2nd), Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Björk, Debbie Harry, Siouxsie Sioux, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin.
Some of the woman who ranked a lower score are: Elizabeth Frazer, Courtney Love, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Kylie Minogue, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani, and Britney Spears.

LIMP BIZKIT REMIX VIDEO

You can check out the video on the remix Butch Vig did for Limp Bizkit's "Nookie", on the Ultimate Band List site. This will be one of the videos promoted by their record company, and it's a great track (like a duet between the "Androids" and "Las Putas").

BUTCH STILL NOT WITH GARBAGE

The latest leg of the american tour hasn't seen Butch Vig yet. Garbage kept playing with Matt Chamberlain in drums, who is doing a great jog too. Matt is very well know in the music industry for the wonderful work he has done with people like Tori Amos, Fiona Apple and The Smashing Pumpkins. You might wanna visit the only website I found about him, with very nice info actually. Click here to do so.
The next gig Garbage have is a guest appearence in Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

GARBAGE NEWS ON YOUR PHONE

A new site, popnews247.com, is offering to send news on your favourite band to your cell phone for free (by SMS text message), including Garbage. I Don't know all the terms and conditions on the service, so you might wanna check that out.

MTV EXCLUSIVE OF "CHERRY LIPS"

MTV UK and Europe have the weekly exclusive of "Cherry Lips". Check the channel out so you can see this brand new video, shot in New York by Joseph Kahn, who previously directed Moby feat. Gwen Stefani's "Southside", U2's "Elevation", Black Eyed Peas feat. Macy Gray's "Request Line", Britney Spears' "Stronger", Aerosmith's "Fly Away From Here", D12's "Purple Hills", and Papa Roach's "Between Insects and Angels".

CHERRY LIPS LIVE ON MTVE.COM

In case you missed Garbage´s performance in "Morning Glory", the MTV site gives you the chance to catch the whole thing again along with the interview from the show, as well as the Androgyny video. See everything here.

GARBAGE OUT OF 2001 SPIN'S TOP

For the first year, Garbage will not appear on SPIN Magazine's Top 20 albums of the year, the most coveted Top 20 list of albums released during each year. In 1995 Garbage landed on spot #11 with "garbage" and in 1998 land in the #8 with "Version 2.0" and this will be the first year Garbage has failed to place within the list with a new album. The top album this year according to SPIN was System of a Down's "Toxicity". Basement Jaxx's "Rooty" got #3, Bjork's "Vespertine" settled for #5 and Gorillaz are #6 with "Gorillaz."

BREAKING UP THE USA SINGLES

The American singles market have not met Garbage for a long time now, if we don't count "The World Is Not Enough". Once again, the European single ("Cherry Lips") won't be released, and will be replaced by a promotional CD: "Breaking Up THe Girl".