This topic is dedicated to any Garbage related news

 

I started with a nice one! :P

A song from Garbage features on a new game Rock Band from Microsoft.

 

 

 

Rock Band Update

06-09-2007

 

September 4, 2007 - Like any alcohol-driven rockers worth their weight in leather, we never turn down an opportunity to hit the stage, strap on our instruments and rock out until we fall over in a dazed stupor. Indeed, EA gave us another chance to step behind the guitar, mic and drums of Rock Band, and as always, we still want more.

 

Today's demo gave us the opportunity to play a few unannounced tracks as well as a couple that we already knew about but hadn't played, like Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash and Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones. The new tracks we checked out were:

 

Celebrity Skin - Hole

I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Wave of Mutilation - The Pixies

 

Along with the previously-announced tracks, we now know 30 of the 40 songs to be included on the disc. Of course, one of the most promising things about Rock Band isn't what's included directly on the disc but what's promised after launch with weekly updates of new tracks, including full albums for download, like Who's Next by The Who and Nirvana's Nevermind.

 

 

 

While any opportunity to rock out is a welcome one, the coolest and most interesting part of the day came in the form of the head-to-head multiplayer modes that we were able to try out in the form of drums vs. drums. You'll of course need two of any given instrument to make this happen, but the result is simply awesome.

 

Score Duel works like the multiplayer mode from the original Guitar Hero where you attempt to outscore your opponent over the course of the song, with the two of you trading parts back and forth. You'll both play some sections together, but most of the time one player will play a short section before it switches over to the other player. Tug of War is similar in nature, though instead of trading sections you both play the entirety of a song and see who can rake in the highest score. This is similar to the Pro Face-Off mode from Guitar Hero II, except that there's a meter on top of the screen that goes back and forth to show who's currently in the lead (hence the Tug of War aspect). Tug of War allows you to choose different difficulty levels, but you must both play on the same setting in Score Duel.

 

Playing either of these modes with the drums is awesome, mostly because it's cool as hell to see and hear two people playing the same drum line at the same time. When two players get in sync and are able to properly keep the beat going, visions of a drum line begin popping into your head. It's really cool stuff, even if you're just listening to the taps of the drum set and not paying attention to the actual song.

 

But the craziest parts happen when the freestyle sections come up and both players go to town with their own fills. The ending of Celebrity Skin seemed like a good 30 seconds of freeform chaos where Hilary and Erik went ballistic on the pads, scurrying to up their score by whatever points they could muster and come out on top. It was, in a word, hilarious.

 

 

While we'd spent most of our time at previous play sessions on either Easy or Medium settings for the drum parts, we stepped it up a notch today and played a good deal of the songs on Hard. This changes things a bit in that the kick is much more prevalent, and you need to have good separation between hand and foot control. It's tricky, but more rewarding than playing on either Easy or Medium. For a couple of the Tug of War matches we even kicked things up to Expert difficulty, one of which was on Nirvana's In Bloom. The difference between Hard and Expert on this song almost feels like day and night because you really need to have your footwork under control at this level. The pad sections weren't that bad, but mixing in the oft-used kick changes things entirely. It's awesome fun, but extremely hard. But that's why it's called Expert...

 

Now, if only EA would send us a kit for play in the office. Expect days of missed updates when that happens.

 

Source: IGN

Edited September 26, 200717 yr by Alin

Latest Shirley's pics!

06-09-2007

 

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Singer Shirley Manson and Eve attend the L.A.M.B. Spring 2008 Fashion Show at The Tent in Bryant Park during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2008 on September 5, 2007 in New York City.

 

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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 5: Singer Shirley Manson poses with Rioja models at the Wines of Rioja Sponsor Fashion Week Under The Tents September 5, 2007 in New York City.

 

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:heart: Here I got some more pic's that go's with that post

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I know you posted this one but it is bit biger

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Great pictures. :o

Shirley looks great (and Gwen too!) B)

thanks for the pics :D

Another pic from the same event:

 

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Shirley has a beautiful skin... :wub:

Edited September 12, 200717 yr by Alin

Shirley has a beautiful skin... :wub:

:heart: yes she dose man she looks great in this pic :naughty: is she taking a picture of her shoe :unsure:

Thanks for posting it

Hey!! I found More picture same event Look!

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I heard that the new single will be "It's All Over But the Crying" and the B-side will be a new song "Girls Talk $h!t" :lol:

 

Nothing official yet.

I found on a forum this interview with Shirley (14 Aug 2007)

Unfortunately it's written in Spanish. I used Babelfish online translator.

 

original link | page translated with Babelfish

 

PS there are some errors on translated page e.g. "lower music" should be read as "download music", "the Angels" is Los Angeles city name translated in Spanish. :P

Jack White to collaborate with Garbage

http://www.nme.com/news/the-white-stripes/31008

 

White Stripes man to appear on new release

10.Sep.07 11:46am

The White Stripes' Jack White has made a guest appearance on Garbage's DVD.

 

White appears backstage at Garbage gig in Detroit, a moment that is captured on the band's 'Absolute Garbage' DVD.

 

White says that if were to go onstage with Garbage the song he would play on would be 'Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)'.

 

"That's their best song ever," he explained, singing a snatch of the tune. "We almost did a duet one time but I got scared."

 

Jack White is then showed being given some shortbread by Garbage singer Shirley Manson, reports The Modern Age.

 

The clip can be seen - HERE

 

:D THANKS FOR THE NEWS :o SHIRLEY LOOKS GREAT

Now I'm no huge White Stripes fan, but this could be interesting. The Stripes are one of those bands who go from extreme to extreme of excellence to dirge. I reckon Garbage could bring out the best in them, the poppier side.

A new interview with Butch surfaced in the internet. I think it's an interesting read:

 

http://www.thescene.com.au/Music/Features/GARBAGE-INTERVIEW/

 

GARBAGE INTERVIEW

Andrew Weaver - 10 Aug 2007

 

It’s like going around the world in 24 hours,” ruminates Butch Vig of his gruelling interview schedule – his speaks to European and American scribes in the morning, and by night he’s talking to Australian and Japanese journalists.

 

Perhaps it’s just testament to how popular Garbage remain, despite lying dormant for some two years since the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me. “It’s either that or how persistent our publicity team is,” he jokes.

 

While the band may have taken a break, Butch has maintained his gruelling production schedule – he’s worked on the major label debut by Against Me, recently wrapped up a record with Jimmy Eat World, and now finds himself ensconced with Irish trip the Subways as they work on their sophomore release.

 

Dividing his time between the production work – which has seemed endless since he broke through to a mainstream level after helming Nirvana’s Nevermind – and working on material for Garbage is always a challenge, and he confirms the challenge of releasing the greatest hits / remixes / video compendium Absolute Garbage was finding time to record some new material.

 

“We found some time in February, March, and we did most of it in my studio here at my home in Los Angeles,” Butch says. “But even so going through our archival footage [was time-consuming]. We put together a documentary on the DVD which is a companion to our videos, and I did a remix on the remix CD of “Bad Boyfriend”, which I did in-between Against Me and Jimmy Eat World. I’ve been very busy, but it’s good – I prefer to be immersed in music, and the main thing for me is just knowing when I have deadlines so I know when to finish something.”

 

Working on a remix of material that he himself had performed on was something greatly different for the super producer – he hadn’t done anything like it since Garbage’s self-titled debut some ten years ago. “From that point on we always sent it off to artists that we really respected,” he says of getting Garbage material re-imagined. “It’s something that I just did when I was goofing around when I updated my studio last year – I started tinkering with a remix for “Bad Boyfriend” and when we started putting the package together I thought it would be cool if the remix CD had a new track on it.

 

“We thought about farming the song out to somebody else,” he says, “but then I thought maybe I should just dive back in and finish it myself. I went and spent a couple of days tweaking it out, and it turned out really cool – Shirley [Manson] and Duke [Erikson] didn’t even know I was doing it and then I showed it to them and Shirley said ‘that’s fabulous, we have to put it on there’.”

 

Having taken an extended break since the release of their last album, Butch says that the plan is for the group to reconvene in early 2008, with Shirley working on a solo record from September, and Butch due to work on another production project immediately after the Subways. “I think probably the earliest we’re going to see Garbage get into the studio would be in the [northern] Spring of next year,” he says.

 

“We’ve talked very loosely about making more of an unplugged, acoustic kind of record,” he says of their next musical adventure, “which I keep referring to as ‘The Bummer Record’ – let’s record 12 really depressing, dark, sultry songs. It’s probably commercial suicide, but at this point I don’t think we really give a $h!t what the record company thinks; we’re mostly interesting in making a record that we’re happy with. But who knows? Once we start writing songs it depends on where the songs take you. We may end up making a techno record.”

 

Having a charismatic person such as Shirley Manson as a band leader does, in some part, explain why an act like Garbage can suddenly disappear yet, when they return, feel almost as if they have never gone away. So forceful is Manson’s personality that – like Kurt Cobain or Billy Corgan – they demand attention.

 

I think,” he says, “as an artist you have to have a vision as to where you’re going, and the more identity you can stamp on that the more you’re going to connect with the public. The more you sound generic or like other bands then the less the public is going to be interested in you, and if you can do something that really has your own sound – whatever that is – then that’s going to help you.

 

“To a certain extent our sound,” he speculates of Garbage’s music, “was an amalgamation of all sorts of things – hip-hop beats and rock guitars and electronica and weird sound effects. But at the front of it we had Shirley’s voice and she gave us a centre, and she had such a strong presence and strong character that it allowed us to do all sorts of things stylistically, like record a song like “Milk” or “Push It” or “Bleed Like Me” on the last record, or “Bad Boyfriend” – we didn’t choose one style of music to play and Shirley really helped that. Any band that has someone with that strong a presence like that gives you a lot of freedom.”

 

'Absolute Garbage' is out now, with the band hoping to tour Australia mid-2008.

 

Having a charismatic person such as Shirley Manson as a band leader does, in some part, explain why an act like Garbage can suddenly disappear yet, when they return, feel almost as if they have never gone away. So forceful is Manson’s personality that – like Kurt Cobain or Billy Corgan – they demand attention.

I think that's true! :naughty:

Shirley will record a new song with Debbie Harry (from Blondie)! :)

 

 

 

KEEPING HER TIDE HIGH

Debbie Harry says she's lazy -- so why is she wearing combat boots and blasting hip hop?

Ben Kaplan, National Post

Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2007

 

'Now when I go on-stage, I feel like I should be carrying a mop," says Debbie Harry of performing One Way or Another, her snarling 1978 hit, after seeing it in constant rotation as a sound-track to a Swiffer television ad. "Insidious, isn't it? Have you seen the cruise commercials that use Iggy's music? We were warping people's minds, now look--it's working, people are warped!"

 

An icon of downtown Manhattan, Harry talks with a pronounced Penny Marshall accent and, at 62, is still wearing beat-up combat boots. As singer and pin-up of Blondie, Harry was one of the late-'70s post-punk pioneers. Playing CBGB and Max's Kansas City with her boyfriend Chris Stein, Blondie's guitarist, the former Playboy bunny and Warhol muse mixed disco, hip hop and punk into a sexy, streetwise blend.

 

On Necessary Evil, Harry's sixth solo record, the still-blond diva recorded 17 new tracks with Super Buddha, a Brooklyn-based production team that's also worked with the Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright. "We'd be outside the studio smoking, and she'd pull up in her car and there'd be hip hop blasting," says Super Buddha's Barb Morrison, who's currently recording a new Debbie Harry track with Garbage's Shirley Manson. "She's definitely in a class of her own. I mean, her kids are the New York scene."

 

Indeed, the former fixture at Studio 54 is often still seen dancing at nightclubs, and says her first solo record in 14 years was influenced by Lady Sovereign, Smashing Pumpkins, Bat for Lashes, LCD Soundsystem and 50 Cent. "I don't go out or work as hard as I used to, but music is good for me," she says. "Maybe I don't have as much stamina or bounce back, but what else what would I do? Write a tell-all? Yucchhh! I will never, ever tell all," she says, tucked into a booth at the Rivoli on Queen West in Toronto, not far from the El Mocambo, where Blondie once recorded a live DVD.

 

(It's a shame that Harry won't pen a book, because one suspects it would be full of stories such as this: "I think there was one night when Johnny Ramone pissed into a glass of beer and handed it to Johnny Rotten and Johnny drank it.")

 

Lately, she's saving her best stories for audiences. She played solo gigs in June and did a European tour with Blondie in July. Her music is featured on London's West End in the musical Desperately Seeking Susan, and in the upcoming film Elegy, based on The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, she plays Dennis Hopper's wife.

 

Despite this, she says that she's lazy and that making movies, posing for Warhol and fronting a rock band are all the same thing. "It's about bringing this character to life. I didn't think I could sing, sometimes I still don't --and there's probably people who would agree -- but anyone who stands in front of a band imagines themselves as bigger than anything, even people who sing karaoke. It's performance, that's what we all do in a way."

 

Harry is currently preparing for a two-month solo tour that will see her crisscrossing America and playing Toronto on Nov. 23. And even if she influenced everyone from Avril Lavigne to Madonna, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't looking to regale in her past. "Rock 'n' roll went from the underground counter-culture to the mass media, and now everyone's out there shaking it, which is great," she says. "Just maybe I wouldn't have chosen those mops."

 

 

© National Post 2007

 

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Wow that will be interesting to hear :o

From SPIN Magazine:

 

Though it appears the debut solo offering from Garbage banshee Shirley Manson won't hit stateside store shelves until the new year, a tracklisting for the forthcoming set, which features collaborations from Billy Corgan, Beck, and Jack White, has been unveiled by the Scot-bred songstress. The yet-to-be titled LP, which also credits the Bird and the Bee constituent Greg Kurstin as a songwriter, will deliver tunes with titles like "Hot $h!t," "Sweet Old World," "Little Dough," reports NME.com.

 

Complete tracklisting:

 

1. "Don't Want Anyone Hurt"

2. "Don't Want to Pretend"

3. "Gone Upside"

4. "Hot $h!t"

5. "Kid Ourselves"

6. "Lighten Up"

7. "Little Dough"

8. "No Regrets"

9. "Pissholes"

10. "Pure Genius"

11. "So Shines a Good Deed"

12. "Spooky"

13. "Stop"

14. "Sweet Old World"

15. "The Desert"

16. "To Be King"

 

http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/11/...on_springsteen/

 

PS I don't know why they are so sure about the Shirley's album tracklisting...

Edited November 20, 200717 yr by Alin

Shirl's back to the roots (of her natural hair) ;)

 

Garbage's Shirley Manson at the Dewey Cox and The Hard Walkers One Night Only at The Coxy Concert on December 3, 2007 at the Roxy in Los Angeles, CA.

 

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Edited December 5, 200717 yr by NoiseAddict