There are two things you should never do. Don’t call San Francisco “Frisco,” and don’t call Garbage “grunge.” The former will irritate San Franciscans, while the latter will annoy the alternative rock ...

Music is prone to nostalgia more so than any other form of art. There’s something about hearing a chord or melody again which brings one back to the first time they heard it. For me, Garbage’s concert ...

Producer Butch Vig described the second Garbage album, Version 2.0, as “the sound of a band growing up.” The album features the band’s defining hits, “I Think I’m Paranoid,” “Push It,” and “Special.” ...

Many artists that have released their finest work on their first record become totally defined by that moment, but, as this list proves, Garbage aren’t one of them. Saying that though, they deserve ...

It’s 1983. Def Leppard and Journey dominate the music charts, hair metal is all the rave and nothing’s hotter than Motley Crue. Converse were the shoes of choice, led by Lakers superstar Magic Johnson ...

Formed smack-dab in the middle of the 1990s grunge movement, Garbage is still rocking America (and other locales) with its brand alt-rock-pop. In fact, the band just released its sixth studio album, ...

In the 1970s and early ‘80s, it wasn’t unusual for rock bands to adopt aggressively unmarketable names, and/or fronted by punky female singers with voices designed for arenas and moshpit, not cabarets ...

The mid-’90s was a period of transition for rock music. The grunge subgenre that exploded at the beginning of the decade was in decline after its reluctant leader, Kurt Cobain, died. Left in its wake ...

OK, so I’ve officially given up on trying to figure out how the greatest-hits wing of the music industry works anymore. It just makes no sense whatsoever, and I guess I’m OK with that. In this space, ...

Tributes are pouring in after the death of Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan, a pioneering grunge musician the band Garbage called "a very gifted artist blessed with honey dipped tones, gone far ...

They were in need of redirection. For a while, it seemed as if the passion that fueled the music of Garbage had completely burned out. So when producer-musician Steve Marker and his bandmates — lead ...