After performing The Black Parade album in its entirety at the most recent When We Were Young Festival, My Chemical Romance (Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Frank Iero, and Mikey Way) will be celebrating The Black Parade this coming summer. The seminal album was named one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” The band will be performing the full album in only 10 cities across North America, produced by Live Nation, with each show featuring a different hand-selected artist as the opening act. Watch the tour trailer below. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 15, 2024 at 10:00am local time – get your tickets at the links below.Continue reading
Tag Archives: Garbage
ALBUM REVIEW: Dead Pony – Ignore This
Social media might be to blame for the increasing enmeshment of Pop music into the Rock genre. Pop artists are more marketable and interchangeable with social media influencers. What record label would not want an artist with the iconic charisma of Taylor Swift? Continue reading
Garbage Classic Track “Stupid Girl” is Featured in the Trailer for “Cruel Summer” TV Series
Garbage’s classic pop-industrial song from the 1990s, “Stupid Girl,” just got a glow up and revisit in the trailer for the upcoming Freeform TV series, Cruel Summer, produced by actress Jessica Biel. A snippet of the song can be heard as well as an alternate version with just the isolated vocals of frontwoman Shirley Manson. Check it out! Continue reading
Captain Marvel Film Features Nirvana, Garbage, Hole, Elastica, Heart, R.E.M., and More!
Captain Marvel finally came out last weekend to smash success, shattering first week expectations. Set in the 1990s the film features an amazing soundtrack to match the film full of pop culture references like Blockbuster Videos, Gameboys, Troll Dolls and that dope vintage Nine Inch Nails shirt (the band is now selling a collabo item). In addition to the Elastica hit song ‘Connection’ heard in the trailer, the film features memorable 1990s tracks by megastars Nirvana, Garbage, Hole, Beck, R.E.M., Salt N Pepper featuring En Vogue, TLC, and No Doubt. The film also features other artists like Heart, Lita Ford, The Hunting Party, The Marvelettes in addition to The Captain Marvel Official Soundtrack Album score by Pinar Toprak. No word yet if the popular songs will be released as a soundtrack yet. The next film in the MCU series from Disney/Marvel Studios is Avengers: Endgame next month.
Shirley Manson Of Garbage Pens New York Times Article About Self-Harm
Garbage singer Shirley Manson has penned an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times today, detailing her history of self-harm from her late-teens through adulthood. She wrote the article to raise awareness of self-harm by telling her story. You can read an excerpt of the article below.Continue reading
June 22nd 2018 New Music Releases
K.Flay – Every Where Is Some Where
Cards on the table, pop isn’t my world, but something about the second K.Flay album Every Where Is Some Where (Night Street / Interscope) piqued the interest. It’s not your standard Ghost Cult fare by any stretch, but we’re up for chucking things your way from time to time that sit outside the realms we normally cover, cos, at the end of the day, good music is good music. And while K.Flay wouldn’t be picked up by my usual radar, I’m not disappointed it did hit my desk.Continue reading
Video: Garbage – Even Though Our Love Is Doomed Lyric Video Released
Industrial Pop rock act Garbage moved closer to the release of their new album Strange Little Birds and have released the lyric video for another new single, ‘Even Though Our Love Is Doomed’. You can see the lyric video at this link or below:
Strange Little Birds track listing
1. Sometimes
2. Empty
3. Blackout
4. If I Lost You
5. Night Drive Loneliness
6. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
7. Magnetized
8. We Never Tell
9. So We Can Stay Alive
10. Teaching Little Fingers To Play
11. Amends
Garbage, who celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2015 with their “20 Years Queer Tour”, has booked a slate of European summer music festivals. All confirmed dates are below with more tba.
Garbage World Tour 2016 confirmed dates
May 24: La Cartonnerie : Reims, FR
May 26: Rock im Revier Festival : Dortmund, DE
May 27: Women Of The World Festival : Frankfurt, DE
May 28: Rockavaria Festival : Munich, DE
May 30: The Paradiso : Amsterdam, DK
May 31: Den Atelier : Luxembourg, LX
Jun 01: Caribana Festival : Nyon, CH
Jun 03: Le Radiant : Lyon, FR
Jun 04: Montereau Confluence Festival : Montereau, FR
Jun 05: La Belle Electrique : Grenoble, FR
Jun 07: Center Urbane Kulture Kino Siska : Ljubljana, SL
Jun 08: Fabrique : Milan, IT
Jun 10: Nova Rock Festival : Nickelsdorf, AT
Jun 13: Troxy : London, UK
Jun 14: Rock City : Nottingham, UK
Aug 8: Lokerse Festival : Lokeren, BE
Aug 10: A Summer’s Tale : Luhmühlen, DE
Garbage Announces New Album, Strange Little Birds, Due This June
Long-running industrial pop:rock band Garbage has announced via social media that their new album, their first in four years is coming in late spring. Strange Little Birds, is due out on June 10th from the bands own label STUNVOLUME. Their last release Not Your Kind Of People, also came from their label in 2012.
The band released the track listing and artwork for the album as well. Produced by
Band member and legendary producer Butch Vig at his Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Garbage which also includes singer Shirley Manson, with Steve Marker, Duke Erikson feels the album is akin to their 1995 self:titled début album. Manson commented : “The guiding principle was keeping it fresh, and relying on instinct both lyrically and musically” and that the new record is Strange Little Birds is “less fussed over” than previous efforts. Regarding the less stringent writing and recording process Vig added : “We fell in love with immediacy,”.
Strange Little Birds track listing
1. Sometimes
2. Empty
3. Blackout
4. If I Lost You
5. Night Drive Loneliness
6. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed
7. Magnetized
8. We Never Tell
9. So We Can Stay Alive
10. Teaching Little Fingers To Play
11. Amends
Garbage, who celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2015 with their “20 Years Queer Tour”, has booked a slate of European summer music festivals. All confirmed dates are below with more tba.
Garbage World Tour 2016 confirmed dates
May 24: La Cartonnerie : Reims, FR
May 26: Rock im Revier Festival : Dortmund, DE
May 27: Women Of The World Festival : Frankfurt, DE
May 28: Rockavaria Festival : Munich, DE
May 30: The Paradiso : Amsterdam, DK
May 31: Den Atelier : Luxembourg, LX
Jun 01: Caribana Festival : Nyon, CH
Jun 03: Le Radiant : Lyon, FR
Jun 04: Montereau Confluence Festival : Montereau, FR
Jun 05: La Belle Electrique : Grenoble, FR
Jun 07: Center Urbane Kulture Kino Siska : Ljubljana, SL
Jun 08: Fabrique : Milan, IT
Jun 10: Nova Rock Festival : Nickelsdorf, AT
Jun 13: Troxy : London, UK
Jun 14: Rock City : Nottingham, UK
Aug 8: Lokerse Festival : Lokeren, BE
Aug 10: A Summer’s Tale : Luhmühlen, DE
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