LISTEN TO BLEED LIKE ME ALBUM AND READ THE LYRICS !!

Garbage Radio at Radio is playing all Bleed Like Me album tracks! Go here and turn it on! Besides the album tracks, you can also listen to older Garbage songs, as well as songs the band picked and introductions by the members.
You can also read the full lyrics on Garbage Box's new lyrics section!

"WHY DO YOU LOVE" ON THE US MODERN ROCK TOP 10

In their fourth week, Garbage arrive at the Top 10 of the US Billboard Modern Rock chart. This song made it's first appearance on the chart at #39, climbing up to #20, #13 and finnaly #10.
This is their first Top 10 hit since 1998's "I Think I'm Paranoid"!
"Why Do You Love Me" also debuts on the Billboard charts Hot 100 Airplay at #78 and at the Hot 100 at #94.
Keep requesting and voting on the track on Garbage Box's REQUESTS PAGE!!
[source: Billboard]

GARBAGE IN FRANCE ITINERARY

Garbage will have quite a promotional scheudle in France!
On March 25th they'll record a TV show with Beck and some French acts for "Traffic Music", a 3 hour show with live performances and interviews on France 2 (200 capacity). No date for broadcast yet.
On March 28th, as previously reported, they'll record Canal +'s "L'album de la semaine". 5 songs will be broadcast but 7-8 songs are recorded (sold out only 80 tickets available). Broadcast to happen in April.
On March 29th, the Olympia Show (almost sold out).
Also, from March 21st until the 25th, at 21h30, Oui FM (102.3) will broadcast Bleed Like Me album on the show Boogie Night. Listen, as you can win tickets for the Olympia show as well as meet & greets.
Check the worldwide Garbage itenerary, TV broadcasts, etc on Garbage Box's tour page.
[source: Pat, ouirock.com]

SHIRLEY MANSON REVEALS WHY GARBAGE SPLIT

Garbage singer Shirley Manson has explained why the band temporarily split up during the recording of their new album.
The rock veterans are about to release their fourth album “Bleed Like Me” but it came close to being doomed when drummer Butch Vig walked out during it’s recording.
Manson says: “We had a lot of problems making this record. We were very unfocussed and we lost a lot of enthusiasm for what we were doing. We had some big confrontations with each other I suppose, we had to question exactly why we were still in the band. It was just unpleasant and horrible and we had started to argue and throw tantrums and Butch decided that he had to go home to LA for a while, and I went back to Scotland.
“We weren’t really functioning very well, and then when we had the time away we realised that we really had to pool our forces together to get a new album finished. That’s when we started to say, ‘Okay, let’s go back, we can do this. We’re the only people who can make a Garbage record, we have to get it together’.”
After the brief schism, Garbage regrouped and completed the album quickly in the second half of last year. “We just wanted to try and capture the sound of us live and I think we’ve never really managed to do that before.
“The last record (2001’s ‘Beautifulgarbage’) was really weird, we tried a lot of things and some worked and some didn’t. We all felt that the tracks that worked best were the ones that focussed on plugging in the guitars, so that’s what we’ve concentrated on this time round.”
Garbage release “Bleed Like Me” on 11th April, preceded by a single “Why Do You Love Me?”.
[source: volume10.com]

US RESIDENTS: FLY OUT TO SEE GARBAGE PLAY A HOMETOWN SHOW & MEET THE BAND

One lucky winner (plus friend) will get the chance to fly out and meet the band, and to witness their triumphant homecoming show in Madison, WI on May 1st. Plus, a signed CD. Enter Now!
[source: filtermmm.com, garbagedisco.com/forum]

GARBAGE FAN VIDEO PROJECT

The Garbage Fan Video is a great new project made by - and for - fans. With no initial budget, the aim is to produce a fan documentary showing many different faces of Garbage fans - and the many ways Garbage have affected their fans' lives. More on the project can be read here.
This website has been set up to provide information and updates on the project. To take part you have to sign up - which is free and very easy to complete. Don't be shy - we need you.
[source: garbagefanvideo.com]

"WHY DO YOU LOVE ME" KNOWN RELEASES SO FAR

UK CD: Why Do You Love Me / Nobody Can Win
UK DVD: Why Do You Love Me / Cherry Lips ("Le Royale" Mix) / Why Do You Love Me (video) / Band Interview (video)
UK 7": Why Do You Love Me / Space Can Come Through Anyone
European / Australian CDs: Why Do You Love Me / Space Can Come Through Anyone / Nobody Can Win / I Just Wanna Have Something To Do / Why Do You Love Me (video)
Release Dates:
March 8th via iTunes in the USA and Canada (Digital)
March 27th via Festival Mushroom in Australia (1 x 4 track CD + video)
March 28th via Warner in the UK (1 x 2 track CD, 1 x 2 track 7", 1 x DVD single 2 tracks + video + interview)
April 4 via Warner in Europe (1 x 4 track CD + video)
[source: garbagedisco.com/forum]

GARBAGE MINI TV CONCERT IN PARIS

Garbage are doing a mini concert for the French TV channel Canal + on the 28th of March. They will play a few of their new songs. Queen Helen fan club have 8 tickets to give away to fanclub members. You have to be available that day, in Paris. The first 8 fanclub members to send them an email will get a ticket for the show. It's a free show but the amount of tickets is limited. Good luck.
You can also call this number (0033) 1 4228 8888 to book two tickets for the Canal + TV concert (Paris, 28th of March). It's free but the amount of tickets is very limited. Be quick!
[source: queenhelen.net]

GARBAGE PLAY EXCLUSIVE RADIO SHOWCASE IN BERLIN

On April 4th, Garbage will play a radio concert in radio Fritz in Berlin and present songs from their new album "Bleed Like Me". Altogether 100 spectators will be in the show.
Just send an e-mail with the subject "Garbage" to gewinn.spiel@warnermusic.com until March 15th (including)!
Good like German fans!
[source: garbage.de]

"WHY DO YOU LOVE ME" REVIEW ON CANADA'S POPJOURNALISM

After 2001’s Beautifulgarbage, an interesting mix of electronic rock with 60s-inspired girl-group melodies, Garbage returns with their hardest single ever. “Why Do You Love Me” amps up the electric guitars unlike anything they've done since their 1995 debut. Singer Shirley Manson is as awesome as ever, singing the verses with pop pleasantness, then powering through the chorus, “Why do you love me (x3) / It’s driving me crazy,” like a woman possessed. A welcome return to form that raises expectations for their imminent new album Bleed Like Me. (Interscope)
[source: popjournalism.com - reviewed by Robert Ballantyne]

NEW US TOUR DATE - MINNEAPOLIS

A new US date has been posted, this time on First Avenue venue's website. This concert, to be held on Minneapolis, MN's First Avenue. You have to be 21 to enter and tickets go on sale at 10:00 AM on March 12th for $32.50.
Special guests of this show will be The Dead 60's.
Garbage's first ever show, on Nevember 5th 1995, was in this venue's smaller room, 7th Street Entry.
[source: first-avenue.com - thanks to Nico]

DAVE GROHL ON "BAD BOYFRIEND"

An interview with David Grohl was made for a radio in the Los Angeles and New York City area, which should be hitting radio stations at the end of March. Most of the interview was mainly about the upcoming Foo Fighters album, then he was asked about the new Garbage album "Bleed Like Me".
Mike: So Dave, we all know you are a all around awesome guy, we would like to know how was it working with Butch Vig and Garbage?
Dave: It was amazing, utterly fantastic! Butch called me up and asked to listen to a song, and asked me to go into the studio and do some "anonymous" drumming for him. It really took about 2 hours to finish it and it sounds f*cking awesome!
Mike: Any favorite lyrics from the [Bad Boyrfriend] song?
Dave: I don't have a favorite, there is a part where she wails "It's wild the way you tease me, it's wild the way you free me". She really nailed it.
The other parts are about the new NIN album and his plans for his new record and the tour. Clips of this interview will be flowing through radio stations throught LA and NYC at the end of March. Please listen in to your rock/alternative radio stations, and keep voting for "Why Do You Love Me"!
[source: lickthepavent.com]

READ HER LIPS: BLOODY BUT NOT BEATEN

UK newspaper Sunday Times has a free magazine with Shirley on the cover: Culture.
On the article, Shirley talks about the recording process of Bleed Like Me, women in rock music, her lack of physical confidence, her vocal chords cirurgy.
Regarding Bleed Like Me, the article reads: Bleed Like Me opens with the furious, high-octane Bad Boyfriend, with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl on drums, beating merry hell out of the kit. This sequencing was a deliberate bid to set the bar high for what follows, and the album ’s 10 subsequent tracks of the band’s signature electropop-punk do indeed fly out of the traps — as though their very lives (okay, their careers) depended on it. The lead single, Why Do You Love Me, has received the coveted Most Added (to radio) cachet in America, so things seem set fair. And Manson, revitalised both by making this record and by her collaborations with Queens of the Stone Age and Marilyn Manson, is raring to go.
You can read the complet article here (if you're from UK) or here. Go to my magazines section to se the cover of the magazine. With this one and two I added yesterday, you can see 120 magazine covers listed!
[source: timoesonline.co.uk; ebay.com; garbagedisco.com/forum]

"I'M NOT MARRIED ANYMORE"

Sunday Gerald (Scottish tabloid newspaper) published a big article on Shirley Manson. This 'I'm not married anymore' quite selx-explanatory title may give you a clear idea of what it's about. IF you're interested in reading about this, go to the newspaper article here.
Garbage Box wishes Shirley and Eddie all best, and are thankful this entire process was not public until Shirley decided so in the interview for this newspaper. Shirley always kept her life her own buziness and let's hope it stays that way.
This news makes Bleed Like Me's lyrics much more clear now.
[source: sundayherald.com]

BLEED LIKE ME: STUFF MAGAZINE ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Stuff Magazine has reviewed 'Bleed Like Me' and given it 5 stars. Highest rating possible. They named it Album of the Month:
"Garbage front woman Shirley Manson must have plowed through a lot of personal trash in the past three years, judging from the tone of "Bleed Like Me", the band's new album. Either that, or she's to caught up in The OC. That s**t is an emotional roller coaster! But Shirley is a survivor. So instead of folding under an assault of unfaithful lovers, personal abuse and insecurity, she picked herself up by the garter belt.
Bleed like me is the bands heaviest and most hedonistic offering. The've ditched the electronics in favor of a more straightforward aural attack. But while songs such as Bad Boyfriend, which features Dave Grohl on drums, and the salacious "Sex Is Not The Enemy" exhibit a clear desire to rock out. Garbage can still get gooey, as on the piano and feedback saturated "It's All Over But The Crying and "Bleed Like Me", a touching ode to anorexics, masochists, and drunks. (Shirley is obviously a huge fan of the Americna Idol judges.)" - Jon Wiederhorn
[source: Stuff Magazine, shirleebe, ]

SHIRLEY MANSON GETS READY TO SING AND TYPE ON GARBAGE TOUR

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 recently.
"If anyone is listening and needs an opening band, give us a call," added guitarist/bassist Duke Erikson.
Fortunately, Garbage have since landed their own tour — of theaters and clubs, not bar mitzvahs — kicking off April 10 in San Francisco and wrapping up May 4 in Chicago.
"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.
[source: mtv.com]

99X US RADIO WANTS YOU TO BE GARAGE'S TOUR MANAGER

WNNX "99X"/Atlanta is offering their listeners a job with one of the hottest bands in Modern Rock, Garbage. All week long, the station is giving out tickets to the band’s show in Atlanta on April 14, two days after the release of their new album, Bleed Like Me. The winners are qualified for the grand prize of being Garbage’s tour manager for a day. The winner will do whatever the band’s tour manager does, including traveling with the band from the hotel to the venue, participating in sound check, taking care of the will call list. According to 99X, the winner may even be "warming up Shirley Manson’s tea, laughing at the band’s jokes, [and] rubbing Butch Vig‘s feet." Garbage has added seven more dates to their spring tour, in Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Washington, DC, Toronto, and Chicago.
[source: fmqb.com]

BILLBOARD 'W.D.Y.L.M.' REVIEW

Garbage comes roaring back to form with "Why Do You Love Me." The hard'n'fast single is flying up the Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it is the band's highest-charting title since 1999. Though the group, fronted by the ever-fabulous Shirley Manson, released an album in 2001, none of its singles dented the modern chart. "Why Do You Love Me" starts with a monster guitar riff and then cuts into the core of the song—an uptempo bed of music led by whining guitars and crazy-fast drumming. Listeners will find themselves involuntarily bobbing their heads and tapping their toes. Matched with smart (yet cryptic) lyrics, the song has the makings of a hit. "Why Do You Love Me" is the first single from the band's new album, "Bleed Like Me," due April 12.
[source: rollingstone.com]

GARBAGE SET SPRING TOUR

Garbage will launch a North American club tour April 8th in Seattle. The spring outing comes in support of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, due April 12th.
Bleed, completed after a near four-month disbanding, features raw, guitar-heavy pop accented by Garbage's signature electronic effects. Songs include "Bad Boyfriend," featuring the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on drums, and "Metal Heart," a political rant inspired by the war in Iraq, shrouded in layers of violin samples and techno beats.
"You just start questioning everything after a while," singer Shirley Manson told Rolling Stone in January of the inspiration for "Metal Heart." "You can't believe a fuckin' damn thing you see or hear. I got to the point where I felt like a real paranoid liberal."
Garbage will head to Europe following their North American tour.
Garbage's North American tour dates:
4/8: Seattle, Paramount
4/10: San Francisco, The Warfield
4/11: Los Angeles, Wiltern Theater
4/14: Atlanta, Tabernacle
4/16: Philadelphia, Theater of Living Arts
4/17: Boston, Avalon
4/19: New York, Hammerstein Ballroom
4/21: Washington DC, 9:30 Club
4/24: Montreal, Metropolis
4/25: Toronto, Kool Haus
4/27: Detroit, State Theater
4/28: Milwaukee, WI, The Rave/Eagles Club
5/1: Madison, WI, Orpheum Theater
5/4: Chicago, Metro/Smart Bar
[source: rollingstone.com]

GARBAGE NEW CD 'BLEED LIKE ME' IN STORES APRIL 12, 2005

SANTA MONICA, CA. (Geffen Records) - With their new album BLEED LIKE ME ready to drop April 12, Geffen quartet Garbage is ready to deliver a one-two punch. The band is set to launch a North American headlining club tour beginning April 8 in Seattle (see below for itinerary).
Meanwhile, their brand new single "Why Do You Love Me" has emerged as a Top 20 hit, becoming the Modern Rock top gainer for two weeks straight. A video version of the track, directed by Sophie Muller (No Doubt, Annie Lennox), is already impacting video outlets across the country.
Tracks on the new album include: "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."
Comprised of singer Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, Garbage has recorded three best-selling albums over their ten-year career: 1995?s Garbage, 1998?s Version 2.0 and 2001?s Beautiful Garbage. Hit singles like "Queer," "Only Happy When It Rains," "Stupid Girl," "Special," "Cherry Lips" graced countless year-end best-of lists, while the band earned several Grammy nominations (including Best New Artist in 1997 and Album of the Year for Version 2.0 in 2001). They also toured with the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Alanis Morrisette, U2 and No Doubt.
BLEED LIKE ME includes contributions from guest artists like Matt Walker (Filter, The Smashing Pumpkins), bassist Justin Meldel Johnson (ImaRobot, Beck) and most notably, Nirvana drummer-turned-Foo-Fighters-frontman Dave Grohl.
[source: top40-charts.com]

WHY DO YOU LOVE ME SINGLE AUSTRALIAN EDITION

FMR Australia lists the Australian edition of "Why Do You Love Me" CD single with new tracklist and artwork. "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" (Ramones cover song for the band tribute album 'We're a Happy Family') replaces "Push It" live in Mexico.
1. Why Do You Love Me
2. Space Can Come Through Anyone
3. Nobody Can Win
4. I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
5. Why Do You Love Me (Enhanced Video)
[source: FMR / garbagedisco.com]

GARBAGE HAS IT'S DAY ONCE AGAIN ON MODERN CHART

At Modern Rock Billboard chart, Garbage lands the Greatest Gainer and Most Airplay Adds trophies for the second straight week with "Why Do You Love Me" which moves 39-20 and earns Airpower status.
Garbage picks up its first top 20 Modern Rock hit in over six years as "Why Do You Love Me" climbs 39-20 in its second week on the chart. "Why" is the quartet's first appearance in the upper half of the chart since "Special" got there in November 1998.
Keep requesting and voting on the track on Garbage Box's REQUESTS PAGE!!
[source: Billboard]

GARBAGE BURIES THE HATCHET , NEW ALBUM AND TOUR AHEAD

Four rocky years after the release of the group's third album, Garbage is returning with new material and a North American club tour.
"Bleed Like Me," the group's follow-up to 2001's "Beautiful Garbage," is due in stores April 11. The outing in support of the new set gets underway April 8 in Seattle, and so far is scheduled to visit a dozen cities.
"To me, personally, the very fact that [the new album] got finished is a miracle," singer Shirley Manson said in the band's record label biography.
Garbage essentially broke up after serving as the opening act on U2's 2001 tour. In the midst of the tour, drummer Butch Vig was diagnosed with Type A hepatitis and Manson later lost her voice, for which she eventually underwent successful surgery to remove a cyst on her vocal cord. When the group finally got around to working on new material, things didn't fall into place.
"On a psychological level, my heart just wasn't in it," Vig said in a statement. "It was like, 'I gotta go.' If we're gonna finish this record we gotta take a break and re-build the creative juices."
Five months later, the group was ready to get to work on new material.
Said 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."
Tour Itinerary
April 2005
8 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater
10 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield
11 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
14 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
16 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts
17 - Boston, MA - Avalon
19 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
21 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
24 - Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
25 - Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
27 - Detroit, MI - State Theatre
28 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
May 2005
1 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre
4 - Chicago, IL - Metro
[source: livedaily.com]

ANTI-HIT LIST BY JOHN SACAMOTTO

Toronto Star rated "Why Do You Love Me" as one of the Top 10 best new songs:
In what amounts to a bleak variation on the Groucho Marx punchline about not wanting to belong to any club that would have him as a member, Shirley Manson harangues some poor sod whose only sin appears to be his dubious taste in women. The proceedings are complicated by a menacing guitar riff, which makes it difficult to decide whether to regard Manson's confession of self-loathing with horror or admiration. (From Bleed Like Me, garbage.com, out April 12)
[source: thestar.com]

GARBAGE TO TOUR CANADA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOUR YEARS

After a four-year- absence, Garbage have re-emerged and are touring in celebration of a new CD.
Bleed Like Me, the band’s fourth CD is set to hit stores on April 11. The album's first single "Why Do You Love Me" is already playing on radio stations.
As previously reported the disc features a few special guests. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters appears on drums on one of the songs and Marilyn Manson recorded some guest vocals.
According to MTV, this record captures Garbage's live sound more than their previous releases. Drummer Butch Vig says the disc has more guitars and less electronic sounds.
Their last disc, Beautiful Garbage, came out in 2001 and was moderately successful. Nothing, however, could match the height of their first CD, which featured the hit single, "Only Happy When It Rains."
The two Canadian dates on the Garbage tour so far are April 24 in Montreal at Metropolis and April 25 in Toronto at the Kool Haus. Tickets for the Toronto show go on sale March 4 at Ticketmaster, Rotate This and Sonic Temple for $36.75.
[source: chartattack.com]

NEW US DATES ANNOUNCED

April 8, 2005 - Seattle, WA - Paramount
April 11, 2005 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern
April 17, 2005 - Boston, MA - Avalon Thur.
April 19, 2005 - New York, NY - Hammerstein
April 21, 2005 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
April 25, 2005 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus
May 4, 2005 - Chicago, IL - Metro
Check all known tour dates on the brand new tour section of Garbage Box!