WHY DO YOU LOVE ME CD SINGLE TRACKLIST

1. Why Do You Love Me
2. Space Can Come Through Anyone [drums by Dave Grohl]
3. Nobody Can Win
4. Push It (Live in Mexico City)
5. Why Do You Love Me (video)
[source: fmrecords.com.au]

GARBAGE CAPTURE LIVE SOUND ON NEW RECORD

With Garbage set to release their long-awaited fourth album, Bleed Like Me, on April 12, the band is ready to talk about their new songs and the long break between records. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, singer Shirley Manson describes Bleed Like Me as "the closest we’ve ever come to capturing what we sound like live on a record. It’s more simple, straightforward and more of a rock record. We wanted to forget all of the technology and work on capturing our live sound instead."
Along with seemingly every other record out there, Dave Grohl makes a cameo on Bleed Like Me, playing drums on the song "Bad Boyfriend." Garbage drummer Butch Vig ran into his old friend at a Christmas party and asked him to play on the album. Vig told MTV.com, "He was like, 'OK, dude, just give me a call.' And we did and we didn't hear anything for two months, and all of a sudden we get a call saying, 'Dave can be in the studio tomorrow.' He came in and did three takes on it, and by the third take he nailed it."
Garbage has also announced a handful of North American concert dates for this spring in San Francisco, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Montreal, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Madison, WI.
[source: fmqb.com]

GARBAGE EXCLUSIVE - SEE THE COMEBACK VIDEO PLUS WIN GIG TICKETS

After four years away Garbage return with long-awaited new album 'Bleed Like Me' in April this year, ten years after their eponymous debut album in 1995. The first single to be taken from the album will be 'Why Do You Love Me', to be released on 28 March, and you can check out the fantastic video here, now, plus win tickets to see the band play an exclusive club gig at London's Scala on March 30. Click here.
[source: nme.com]

METRO TALKER: GARBAGE TICKETS GO ON SALE

Tickets go on sale Saturday for Garbage's first hometown show in seven years.
The Madison-based band will play the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State St., on Sunday, May 1. Tickets are $35 and go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday through the Orpheum box office and all Ticketmaster locations, by phone at 255-4646, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
The band will be touring in support of its new "Bleed Like Me" CD, which arrives in stores on April 12. Members recently told MTV that the band almost broke up during the making of the CD, which drummer Butch Vig describes as a "loud guitar record."
[source: madison.com]

FRESH SPINS ON SPRING

There's plenty of good news in the annual musical thaw. Long-awaited discs from everyone from Nine Inch Nails, Garbage and Stevie Wonder join fairly quick follow-ups from the likes of 50 Cent and Kanye West. So clear out some room on your iPod or disc changer. And, as always, remember that release dates are like carry-on luggage: They tend to shift during flight, so open the overhead compartment carefully and be patient.
April 12
• Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi - Crazy diva alert! Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Jermaine Dupri head the list of guests who are helping Ms. Carey (whom close friends allegedly call Mimi, if you were wondering about the title) on her new disc. [More info on Mariah Carey here]
• Garbage Bleed Like Me - Bad news: Drummer/studio mastermind Butch Vig quit the band. Good news: He rejoined four months later, resurrecting the 11 tracks and giving up his spot behind the drums for one track to allow Dave Grohl to bash away.
• Mudvayne Lost and Found - Mudvayne ditches its makeup - 'cause that move worked so well for Kiss.
[source: rockymountainnews.com]

US TOUR DATES REVEALED

The first dates of Garbage's North American tour have been revealed:
Warfield in San Francisco, CA on April 10th
Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on April 14th
TLA in Philadelphia, PA on April 16th
Avalon in Boston, MA on April 17th
Metropolis in Montreal, QUE on April 24th
State Theatre in Detroit, MI on April 27th
Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, WI on April 28th
Orpheum Theatre in Madison, WI on May 1st
You'll be able to buy tickets soon on Ticketmaster, or pre-order them if you're a Garbage.com fan site member.
[source: garbage.com, ticketmaster.com - thanks to Nico Medina]

GARBAGE RETURNS TO MODERN ROCK CHART

Garbage makes its first appearance on the Modern Rock chart since 1999's "When I Grow Up", as "Why Do You Love Me" enters the list at No. 39 claiming Greatest Gainer and Most Airplay Adds honors.
Garbage's "Why Do You Love Me" (Geffen) went for adds @ commercial US radios this week on the Billboard's Modern Rock / Alternative and Adult Album Alternative's charts.
[source: Billboard]

GARBAGE BREAK UP ENDS WITH NEW LP - IF THEY DID ACTUALLY BREAK UP

MTV interviewed Garbage recently, where they taled about their break, the single "Why Do You Love Me", the album heavier sonority, working with John King and Dave Grohl on "Bad Boyfriend" and here's what they had to say about some of these topis:
- "There's less layering, less electronic things. It's basically just a really loud guitar record."
- The album's first single, "Why Do You Love Me," officially hit the airwaves Tuesday, with a Sophie Muller-directed video to follow shortly behind. On the track ["Why Do You Love Me"], singer Shirley Manson questions her appeal to a lover and then questions his motivations and eventually his loyalty. "I'm not as pretty as those girls in magazines," she sings in the first verse. "It's a weird, weird song that kind of deals with three different things in my life going on at one time," Manson explained. "I can't actually articulate it very easily without sounding like a turd. ... I always feel like I have this duty to explain the lyrics, and I always feel like such a turd doing it, so I just decided on this record I'm not gonna do it."
- "Once he [Dave Grohl] played the drums on that track, that kind of set the bar for how we wanted the rest of the songs on the album to sound," Vig said. "That really forced us to ramp it up more on 'Bad Boyfriend' and 'Metal Heart' and some of the other tracks."
Read the whole interview and watch video clips of it here.
[source: MTV.com]

WHY DO YOU LOVE ME VIDEO ON AUSTRALIAN TV

Garbage's video "Why Do You Love Me" will be making its debut in Australia on Channel 10 on a show called Video Hits on Saturday and Sunday morning (9-12 AM).
The show is hosted by Axle Whitehead.
[thanks to Diana Sanchez]

30 SECONDS CLIP FROM "WHY DO YOU LOVE ME" VIDEO FOR DOWNLOAD

A 30 seconds clip from the "Why Do You Love Me" video, broadcasted on MTV2 is online on several sites now. You can go to garbage.cz, ohwir.net or 10happiness.tk.
Also, a radio ripped mp3 of the whole song is available to download. Though I understand the curiosity is huge, if you download, please don't share on pear to pear programs, and please, buy the song/single/album when released!

GARBAGE ANNOUNCE UK COMEBACK SOON

Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker a.k.a. Garbage are back to play London’s Brixton Academy on Thursday June 9. The band will be debuting new material from their long-awaited fourth album, ‘Bleed Like
Me’, out on April 11 on Warner Bros.
“When people come to see us, nobody expects us to be that loud. It’s like, ‘oh my god, a rock band!’ I don’t think we’ve ever captured that on a record, but this one is the closest we have gotten.” commented Manson upon the completion of ‘Bleed Like Me’.
Garbage will play Brixton Academy on June 9 with tickets on sale from 9am Friday February 18. Tickets will be available from www.getlive.co.uk or on the Credit Card Hotline: 0870 400 0688 priced £25 (subject to booking fee)
The new album will see Garbage drummer Butch Vig reunited with Foos mainman Dave Grohl who makes a guest appearance behind the kit on album track 'Bad Boyfriend'. Singer Shirley Manson commented,
"Dave Grohl (or Mr Fantastic as our producer has taken to calling him) came by the studio today and HAMMERED some drums down on 'Bad Boyfriend' and the result is f***ing AWE-INSPIRING!!!!!"
The new single from Garbage, entitled ‘Why Do You Love Me’, will receive its first Xfm play on Lauren Laverne's Drivetime Show on 104.9 Xfm tomorrow (February 18) at 4:10pm. The track will hit shops on March 28.
The full tracklisting for 'Bleed Like Me' runs as follows:
‘Bad Boyfriend’
‘Run Baby Run’
‘Right Between The Eyes’
‘Why Do You Love Me’
‘Bleed Like Me’
‘Metal Heart’
‘Sex Is Not The Enemy’
‘It’s All Over But The Crying’
‘Boys Wanna Fight’
‘Why Don’t You Come Over’
‘Happy Home’
[source: xfm.co.uk]

GARBAGE DRAW BLOOD

Garbage will release their 4th album 'Bleed Like Me' in April.
The album features Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters/Nirvana) on the track 'Bad Boyfriend'. Garbage's Butch Vig was the producer of Nirvana's breakthrough album Smells Like Teen Spirit'.
Beck's bass player Justin Meldal-Johnsen also plays on the album.
The full album is 'Bad Boyfriend', 'Run Baby Run', 'Right Between The Eyes', 'Why Do You Love Me', 'Bleed Like Me', 'Metal Heart', 'Sex Is Not The Enemy', 'It's All Over But The Crying', 'Boys Wanna Fight', 'Why Don't You Come Over' and 'Happy Home'.
[source: undercover.com.au]

MANSON RECORDS DUET WITH NAMESAKE

Kind of old news, but as I haven't published it yet here it is:
Shock rocker MARILYN MANSON has recorded a duet with GARBAGE frontwoman SHIRLEY MANSON - but neither of them wanted to include it on their respective albums.
The eccentric couple met at a YEAH YEAH YEAHS concert and their mutual chemistry was obvious immediately - so they agreed to join forces to cover HUMAN LEAGUE's '80s classic DON'T YOU WANT ME BABY.
Shirley says, "It's really cool but neither of us felt comfortable enough putting it on our records, so I don't know if it will ever come out. I hope it does.
"Our voices sound fantastic in a very BEAUTY AND THE BEAST kind of way."
[source: contactmusic.com]

On the day Garbage gathered in Wisconsin to start work on their fourth record, they came up with the glittering and steely “Right Between the Eyes” in all of 30 minutes. Things would not go quite so well with BLEED LIKE ME again.

The band battled illness, surgery, creative disagreements, major life changes and—depending who you ask—either a break-up or a much-needed sabbatical. But nothing good comes easy… and BLEED LIKE ME is simply smashing. From the lusty, masochistic skronk of album opener “Bad Boyfriend” to the industrial-strength protest-pop of “Metal Heart” to the hauntingly transgressive title track, it’s everything that you’d expect from one of the past decade’s most acclaimed and innovative bands: Sexy, sonically ambitious, loud, emotionally fraught and catchy as can be.

“To me, personally, the very fact that it got finished is a miracle ,” says singer Shirley Manson. But then, so is the very fact that Garbage has been at it for ten years. When Manson first hooked up with Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, the band was pegged as “three producers and a girl.” Vig and Erikson had been, respectively, the drummer and the frontman for Midwestern guitar-pop favorites Spooner, as well as mid-‘80s college radio successes Fire Town. Vig’s old college buddy Marker engineered Spooner’s very first recordings on a four-track in his basement; the two men went on to found Smart Studios, producing and engineering such seminal post-hardcore bands as Killdozer and Die Kreuzen. Then Vig manned the console for such landmark records as the Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish and of course, Nirvana’s Nevermind, as well as discs by Sonic Youth, L7, House of Pain and Freedy Johnston.

Garbage was meant to be a lark, a way for three old friends to take advantage of success and have fun on the other side of the control room. But someone had to sing. “It was just going to be a blip in our personal history,” says Manson, who began her career playing keyboards in the Scottish combo Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie, then fronted her own band Angelfish.

Three records later—1995’s Garbage, 1998’s Version 2.0 and 2001’s Beautiful Garbage—Garbage has seen their albums top the charts around the world, had countless hit singles (“Queer,” “Happy When It Rains,” “Stupid Girl,” “Special,” “Cherry Lips”), graced every year-end best-of you can name, earned several Grammy nominations (including Best New Artist in 1997 and Album of the Year for Version 2.0 in 2001) and cut a James Bond movie theme (“The World Is Not Enough”). They’ve also played close to 1000 shows, from dives to sheds to giant festivals, as well as tours with Smashing Pumpkins, Alanis Morrisette, U2 and No Doubt.

Manson, Vig, Erikson and Marker are true musical soulmates, equally in love with experiments and bubblegum, with noise and beauty, always welding bright sounds, big hooks and bigger melodies to Manson’s goth-glam sensibility and innate Scottish pessimism. They were, in fact, a family— and in a family, there’s always gonna be some conflict and dysfunction.

It was already brewing at the time of Beautiful Garbage, which came out on September 4, 2001. Then came 9/11. Suddenly, doing interviews and promo tours felt inappropriate, and certainly not fun. Even an American support slot with U2, at a time when Bono truly tapped into the nation’s grief, turned into a trial—midway through, Vig was diagnosed with a serious case of Type A hepatitis. The band continued on with replacement drummers Matt Chamberlain and Matt Walker, something Vig encouraged, but it surely added to the weirdness (“First time I’ve played with another drummer in 20 years,” says Erikson). And on top of all of that, Vig wed his longtime girlfriend, Marker and his wife had their first child, Erikson married off a daughter and Manson lost her voice—a terrifying ordeal that ultimately resulted in successful surgery to remove a cyst on her vocal chord.

When the time came to think about another record, Garbage dutifully returned to Madison. But things just weren’t happening—particularly for Vig. After a frustrating few weeks he retreated to L.A. “On a psychological level, my heart just wasn’t in it,” he says. “It was like, ‘I gotta go.’ If we’re gonna finish this record we gotta take a break and re-build the creative juices.”

Then there’s Marker’s take: “We broke up,” he says, which is also Manson’s point of view.

“It got pretty dark there, that’s for sure,” says Erikson, ever the voice of reason. “All four of us might have been willing to just let it go.” It wasn’t so much the drama as “no one was agreeing on the direction of the music,” he continues. “At different times, different band members would come up with stuff, but the other three wouldn’t be on board. When you lose that common bond of the music, you’ve got nothing.”

Good thing this story has a happy ending. “What we realized, after we did take five months off to sort of reassess,” says Marker, “was, we’ve been through all this other bullshit...”

“And we still want to do it,” finishes Manson. “All the bands that came out back when we did are gone, but we’re still standing, wanting to make records, regardless of success or expectations or other outside forces. That’s a really empowering feeling, and I think it helped us make the record that we wanted in the end.”

What also helped was one last failed experiment: They went into the studio with Dust Brother John King, a session that produced “Bad Boyfriend” but no more. “No disrespect to him,” says Erikson. “It was an interesting experience, learning someone else’s way of doing things, but we’re pretty set in our ways. And what we figured out is, our ways are pretty damn good.”

“It just kind of made us realize, we’re the only ones who can make a Garbage record,” says Vig.

So after a flurry of Fed Exed discs and e-mailed sound files from everyone’s respective home studios, they reconvened at Smart for what most bands would call “mixing”—a process of selection and collage and re-recording that is key to the way Garbage puts their songs together. But this time out, they did so without bombast: fewer tracks, fewer loops, fewer samples, fewer keyboards. “The operating word was ‘simple,’” Erikson says. “I think it’s the strongest body of work we’ve put together as far as just the songs. We depended on the songs, rather than production.”

They also depended on guitars, guitars and more guitars. “That’s what I’m most proud of on this record,” Marker says. “I think we really nailed the fact that we’re a loud rock band more than anything else—a guitar band behind Shirley’s voice. When we made the first record, we hadn’t played live at all.”

“When people come to see us, nobody expects us to be that loud,” says Manson. “It’s like, ‘oh my god, a rock band!’ I don’t think we’ve ever captured that on a record, but this one is the closest we have gotten.”

She can take some credit for that vibe—after watching her compadres sit around the control room in their chairs, guitars around their necks, tinkering with parts, Manson put her foot down. “I felt like, where’s the energy?,” she says. “So for the first time in a long time, the boys went in and set up amps and made it super loud and just played. I think you can feel that. The guitars sound great because of that.”

All of BLEED LIKE ME sounds great. Buzzsaw guitars give “Why Do You Love Me” an overtone that’s sinister as much as pleading, with a melody that Vig describes as Spectoresque. “Sped-up girl group,” Erikson agrees. The funky, destined-to-be-a-dancefloor-classic “Boys Wanna Fight” takes a sassy, indirect jab at world affairs, while the cutting, sing-song “Sex Is Not the Enemy” takes a direct one at so-called moral leaders. The slow-building sparks of “Happy Home” and the ballad “It’s All Over But the Crying” are all the more gorgeously vulnerable amidst the anger and distortion of the other songs.

The record includes contributions from Matt Walker (Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins), bassist Justin Meldel Johnson (ImaRobot, Beck) and most notably, a certain part-time drummer Vig has worked with in the past.

“It was great,” he says of former Nirvana drummer turned Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl’s visit to the studio to guest star on “Bad Boyfriend.” “He played it down a couple of times, and then came back into the control room to listen to playback. In the middle of the break, he looked at Duke, and he asked, what should I do here, should I go wild? We told him, go wild. And the next take, he went crazy! That’s the drum fill over the guitar break, it’s a pretty chaotic moment. He had a shit-eating grin on his face, it was just awesome to see him play again, to come full circle.”

And just as that moment prompted Vig to reflect on where he’s been and what he’s done as a producer, BLEED LIKE ME has him marveling at Garbage. “We have accomplished a lot more as a band than I ever thought we would,” he says.

“To even get to make a fourth record is incredibly lucky,” Manson echoes. "We have this incredibly long history. I think we’re amazed by that, and proud of it.

“It really is hard to stay together as a group, it'd be so easy to just pursue our own individual desires," she continues. "But I still believe in the notion of a band-- that people can come together and find a way to work on something together. I’m still in love with the romance of rock’n’roll.”

[source: Warner Russia, maximum.ru (thanks Nikita!)]

WHY DO YOU LOVE ME PREMIER ON BBC RADIO ONE, ON FRIDAY 18TH

Catch the UK premier of 'Why Do You Love Me' on BBC Radio One on Jo Whileys show on Friday 18th! The show runs from 10am until 12:45 UK time.
You can listen to the radio online here.
[source: subhuman.net]

GARBAGE.COM GEARING UP, TOUR DATES AND FAN CLUB

Garbage.com has a preview of what's to come, and allows you to join the official fanclub for 19.95/year. Being a member of the fanclub you can buy Garbage concert tickets before the general public (The great majority of Garbage’s concert will have a limited number (usually up to 10% of the ticketed seats available which are provided to the Club by the local venue). These select tickets are then made to members to for purchase prior to the public on-sale date)
You'll be able to see behind-the-scenes video and audio clips, make exclusive downloads, be a part of the  members-only contests and receive exclusive up-to-date news. You'll also have a space to gab with other fans in the Members TrashTalk section.
YOU'll also be able to ask the band questions or responding to one of their questions for you! JOIN NOW!
First shows you'll be able to buy before the general audience are:
- Olympia Theatre in Paris, France on March 29th
- Brixton Academy in London, England on June 9 (Brixton ticket buyers are in for a treat - all will be revealed when you complete your Brixton ticket purchase).
[source: garbage.com]

GARBAGE BOX POLL RESULTS

I've now removed the poll from my site as it was the origins for the pop ups. Nevertheless, here are the results on the latest one, "What's your favourite album ballad?".
Your favourite was You Look So Fine, with a 29% result. The trick Is To Keep Breathing got 15th, and the others are as follow: Milk (12%) Cup of Coffee (10%), Queer (9%), Medication (7%), Nobody Loves You (5%), A Stroke of Luck (5%) and finally So Like a Rose and Drive You Home with 4% each.

OFFICIAL SITE GOING DOWN FOR A FEW DAYS

The official site will be down for a few days (back up on Wednesday, Feb 16). Although the official launch date of the new Fan Club website is March 1st, the site will be up a bit early so that they can present member only ticket presales.
Once the new site is officially launched on the 1st of March, we’ll have a rockin’ message board as well as a pile of content they’re gearing up to offer - photo galleries, a chance to win cool stuff, a members blog area, a tour area including member only access to ticket pre-sales, chat zone with other fans, and lots more.
In the interim, the site that will keep you up to date on band news and show dates. Message board will also be down for a few weeks until March 1st !
[source: garbage.com]

MTV.IT ANNOUNCES ITALIAN TOUR DATE

Garbage, Billy Idol, R.E.M., Oasis, Green Day, Velvet Revolver and Hoobastank are playing on the Heineken Jammin Festival 2005, to be held on on June 10th, 11th and 12th near the Automobile race track Enzo and Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy.
[source: mtv.it; garbage forum (thanks to seagull j.livingston)]

GARBAGE 'BLEED LIKE ME'

The new album out April 11th on Warner Bros.
Having sold in excess of 10-million albums during their ten-year career to date, Garbage will release their long-awaited fourth album, 'Bleed Like Me', on April 11th on Warner Bros.
Described as a thundering return to the band's original hard rock sound, 'Bleed Like Me' features eleven tracks that return to the power and simplicity of their debut. The band - Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker - worked with producer Tony Hoffer (The Thrills, Turin Brakes).
"We're all giddy with relief, excitement and a great sense of accomplishment", commented Manson upon the completion of 'Bleed Like Me'.
Amongst the highlights of the album are the dynamic opener 'Bad Boyfriend', a heavy out and out rock song featuring a guest appearance from Dave Grohl on drums. The first single to be released from the album is the dazzling 'Why Do You Love Me' (out March 28th) which features an explosive and frenetic chorus and is one of the most aggressive moments on the album. Elsewhere, the tender approach of the title-track and Manson's angelic vocals contrast to mesmerising effect with the darkly themed lyrical outlook, 'It's All Over But The Crying' is a mournful, piano-led ballad and the epic closer 'Happy Home' is Garbage at their most epic and ambitious.
The full tracklisting runs as follows; 'Bad Boyfriend', 'Run Baby Run', 'Right Between The Eyes', 'Why Do You Love Me', 'Bleed Like Me', 'Metal Heart', 'Sex Is Not The Enemy', 'It's All Over But The Crying', 'Boys Wanna Fight', 'Why Don't You Come Over' and 'Happy Home'.
Aside from Grohl, the album also features an additional guest in the shape of Beck bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Garbage will support the release of 'Bleed Like Me' with a full UK tour in April, with dates to be announced as they're confirmed.
[source: londondiary.ltd.uk]

MANSON CAME CLOSE TO QUITTING GARBAGE

GARBAGE singer SHIRLEY MANSON nearly quit the music industry after suffering a double blow - her voice ceased to work and she forgot how to write songs.
The sexy STUPID GIRL star spiralled into a state of despair when doctors informed her she would need an operation to fix her ravaged vocal chords, and her mood was worsened when writer's block set in as she started work on the band's latest album, BLEED LIKE ME - their first since 2001's BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE.

She says, "The very fact I'm still an insecure mess is probably the reason I'm still in a band. I literally had writer's block for a year-and-a-half on this record.

"I had vocal surgery too, so my voice wasn't working properly, I couldn't write and I was really distressed about my relationship with the band. It was a f**king nightmare. I did think about jacking it all in about a million times but what else am I going to do?"
[source: contactmusic.com]

SHIRLEY TO APPEAR ON THE QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE'S BONUS DVD

Garbage's Manson and The Distrillers singer Dalle provide backing vocals on track "Man, You've Got Quite a Scene Going There" on the upcoming Queens Of The Stone Age album "Lullabies to Paralyse".
The band has just announced a bonus DVD with the "deluxe edition" of Lullabies, which, according to the band's spokesperson, includes a bonus DVD featuring in-studio footage of sessions with album guest stars Billy Gibbons, Brody Dalle and Shirley Manson, plus two short films based on songs from the record and a bonus "therapy session," which stars Homme and comedienne Sarah Silverman.
Lullabies to Paralyze is due March 22.
[source: MTV.com; garbage forum (thanks to CherryCrush)]

GARBAGE.COM ANNOUNCES UK TOUR DATE

Garbage has been confirmed to play the Download Festival on June 10th. Please see ticket information below. In addition look next week for additional London show information.
Tickets for this year’s three-day rock extravaganza are priced at £105 for a three-day ticket. Further information on all the camping packages available, transport, accommodation and much more can be found at www.downloadfestival.co.uk, the festival’s official website. Downloaders can also get up-to-the-minute information and news by downloading the Download Dog at www.downloadfestival.co.uk/dog.

GARBAGE BOX UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION

I've been working on a new design for my site. Updated sections will be uploaded as they get ready.
Thanks for your patience.

'BLEED LIKE ME' ALBUM ARTWORK REVEALED

The Universal Music Group site posted the Bleed Like Me album artwork. The album is set for release April 12th (April 11 in the UK) and features 11 tracks.
HMV Japan states that the Japanese edition will have a Bonus Track.
(source: garbage forum [thanks Sizzleouch & mixthecat], umusic.com)

'WHY DO YOU LOVE ME' ARTWORK REVEALED

The official German Garbage site has the artwork for the Why Do You Love Me single.
No tracklists or b-sides info are known so far.
The single is set for a UK release on March 28, with first radio play expected in mid-late February.
(source: subhuman.com, garbage.de)

SHIRLEY TO PRESENT AT BRIT AWARDS 2005

Look for Shirley at this year's Brit Awards (UK version of the Grammy's). Although the ceremony takes place on February 9th the show will be broadcast on ITV1 on February 10th at 8PM.
(source: garbage.com)

DAVE GROHL TALKS ABOUT GARBAGE

Grohl guests on drums on a track on Garbage's upcoming album Bleed Like Me entitled "Bad Boyfriend." He told the NME, "[Garbage drummer/producer] Butch Vig called me and said ‘Come in and play on it’, and you know, if there’s anyone in the world I owe a favor to it’s that dude, so I figured I’d go in and do it, and it was a lot of fun." Bleed Like Me arrives in stores on April 12.
(source: nme.com)

GARBAGE ARTICLE ON KERRANG! MAGAZINE

UK music magazine Kerrang! has two pages dedicated to Garbage, including a brand new picture!
Shirley Manson reveals all about the album, troubled band relations and her rumoured collaboration with Marilyn Manson.
She sais the album is "definately the closest we’ve ever come to capturing what we sound like live on a record. It’s more simple, straightforward and more of a rock record. We wanted to forget all of the technology and work on capturing our live sound instead. We also got to the point where we weren’t getting on very well either and didn’t want to spend time in the studio together!"
Regarding what colour hair is she currently rocking, she laughs and replies "I have my red hair back! I went mad last time I think. I can’t believe that I shaved all my hair off. What was I thinking? When I look back at pictures of it now, I’m Like ’What The Fuck!?’ It was crazy."
(read the complete article on subhuman.net or on the garbage forum)

ERIC AVERY TO PLAY BASS WITH GARBAGE

The band is very happy to say that Eric Avery will be joining Garbage on tour to play bass. Eric was a member of Jane's Addiction as well as Polar Bear and has most recently played with Alanis Morrisette.
Eric will replace Daniel Schulman who played with the band until the end of the beautifulgarbage tour.
(source: garbage.com)

THE KNOW IT ALL BOYFRIENDS PLAY FEB. 18TH

The Know It All Boyfriends will play Friday February 18, 2005 at the Café Montmartre, Madison, Wisonsin. Ticket is $15 and you have to be 21 to get in.
You can find more info on The Know It All Boyfriends (where Butch Vig and Duke Erikson belong) here.
(source: garbage.suite.dk, garbage forum)