Garbage (Band)

Garbage - Terminal 5 - 3/22/13

Better Than: Practicing your '90's nostalgia with Mark McGrath's cruise-replacing tour. Garbage had never played Terminal 5 before. "This feels like how a venue is supposed to feel," proclaimed lead singer Shirley Manson before a sold-out show at the Hell's Kitchen venue Friday night. With the way ... More >>

Garbage

Dead Sara Is Weathering the Storm

Blazing hard rock might signal a sea change

Dead Sara Will Set Your Stereo On Fire (In A Good Way)

A few weeks ago I was perusing the Billboard Rock Songs chart, which at present shows a genre in crisis—its ranks are split between the staggering dinosaurs of the nu-metal era, a few poppier rock outfits like Gotye and fun., and a bunch of bands that sound like slight variations on the old-ti ... More >>

Butch Vig On Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Garbage, And His History Of Shaping Alternative Rock As We Know It

If you don't think Butch Vig's almost singlehandedly invented two decades of alternative rock as we know it, just look at his resumé: Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, AFI. That's without mentioning his membership in the still-cool Garbage or the fact he prod ... More >>

Charli XCX's Timeless Pain

Freestyling through heartache

Nine Questions For Kim Fowley, MC Of This Weekend's Norton Records Anniversary Spectacular

​While it goes without saying that the main attraction of this weekend's Norton Records 25th Anniversary All-Star Spectacular is the fine garage/punk/R&B sounds that will be blaring from The Bell House, the chance to see the mind-blowing music industry subversive Kim Fowley playing master of c ... More >>

Loving The Robots: New York Breathes Life Into Autechre's Zeroes And Ones

​Yes, fine, there's clearly something educated and possibly even overengineered about the clicks and beeps which get woven into densely cerebral pseudo-songs by Autechre, the British duo that has been blazing so many trails in experimental electronic music since the '90s. Even the kooky name g ... More >>

ALTERNATIVE ART

Rock stars can do more than just rock

Flashback: The Cult of J.T. LeRoy

How a Teenage Hustler-Turned-Novelist Built a Celebrity Support Group

Horoscope

The Jig Is Up

Lip-synching little sis improves on Courtney; tween Cinderella fills the Lisa Loeb gap

Showtime Wanks It Up

Hello Meta Man; the Grim Reaper Lands a Series

My Big O!

Prog Wakes Up

Paradiddles by the Dashboard Light

Music

Music

Leader of the Secretarial Pool

The Cult of J.T. LeRoy

How a Teenage Hustler-Turned-Novelist Built a Celebrity Support Group

Forever Old

NARAS Sifts Through an Arty Bunch in a Don't-Miss Year

Mixed Emotions

DJ Music Builds Its Way Out of the Velvet-Rope Underground

Age of Discovery

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Mammals on TV Do It

Beat and Variation

Electric Dinner Party

Love and Industry

Pirate King Music's No. 1 Bootlegger Gets Busted— Again

Gravity's Rainbow

Consumer Guide

Dynamo Hum