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  Garbage Behind the Scenes: See a 'Blood for Poppies' Rehearsal

  June 5, 2012 – Onstage, Garbage are a glossy, pro outfit with an eye-popping light show anchored by frontwoman Shirley Manson's extreme magnetism. In rehearsal, without all the whiz-bang visuals, they're just as arresting to watch. Proof: the following footage of the quartet perfecting "Blood for Poppies," a track off Not Your Kind Of People, their first album in seven years. "I knew we weren't done," Manson told SPIN recently. …
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  Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People' (StunVolume)

  May 13, 2012 – "We are extraordinary people," Shirley Manson sings on the first Garbage album since 2005, and in an era of ever-more-youth-obsessed pop, there's no doubt about that. Onstage earlier this month at the annual "Weenie Roast" concert hosted by Los Angeles alt-rock radio behemoth KROQ, Manson's black-clad bandmates came off like visiting professors long before she mentioned that the band had initially played the event in 1996. …
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  Garbage Exclusive: Hear New LP 'Not Your Kind of People' Now

  May 8, 2012 – In a recent Q&A with SPIN's Chris Martins, Garbage's Shirley Manson admitted recording the band's first album in seven years, Not Your Kind of People, was amazingly freeing. "I loved the experience of making it," she said. "It was the first time being in the studio that I didn't feel intimidated or stymied." Martins described the results like this: "Sleaze. Gloom. Glam. Noise. Songs about beloved freaks and lying lovers. …
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  Shirley Manson Talks Through Garbage's Discography

  May 8, 2012 – Listen to SPIN's premiere of Garbage's May 14 album Not Your Kind of People here now! Plus read Shirley Manson's SPIN Interview. 1995 Garbage Almo Sounds I can remember Butch slicing and splicing like a crazy man with bits of tape hanging off every surface of the studio. We had no idea the record was going to become this cultural zeitgeist. …
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  The SPIN Interview: Shirley Manson

  April 26, 2012 – Shirley Manson has taken to miming. With her shock of crimson hair pulled into a bun, she declares in a proud brogue, "This is how I used to operate in the world." She braces against an imaginary wall and shoves, to no avail. "Now, I'm like this." She slowly pushes the wall six inches, beaming. …
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  Lana Del Rey: Beloved By Mansons

  March 23, 2012 –  …
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  WeekSauce: SPIN's Friday Night Highlights

  March 16, 2012 – • There's a little party going on in Austin called SXSW, and somehow our staff wasn't too deep into a Corona-and-BBQ coma to file some reports on the happenings on Wednesday and Thursday. …
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  Hear Garbage's 'Blood for Poppies,' a Track From Their First LP in Seven Years

  March 15, 2012 – It's taken Garbage so long to return that Shirley Manson and Co. actually sound of-the-moment again. As the alt-rockers get ready to release their first album in seven years, Not Your Kind of People, on May 15, you can already hear their clinically precise grunge-glam smart bombs reverberating across new albums by artists as varied as School of Seven Bells and (as our own Rob Harvilla points out) even Lana Del Rey. …
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  Hear Garbage's First New Track Since 2007: A U2 Cover

  October 21, 2011 – When Garbage made their multiplatinum debut, U2's 1991 album Achtung Baby was only four years old. On October 31, Achtung is getting the reissue treatment, and Garbage are prepping their long-awaited fifth album for a spring 2012 release. …
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  In the Studio: Garbage Talk 'Hungriness' of 2012 LP

  October 17, 2011 – Now that Garbage's long-awaited fifth album — the band's first since 2005's Bleed Like Me — is nearly done, Shirley Manson and Co. are ready to open up about what caused the delay in the first place, starting with plain ol' politics. "We'd gotten sold from label to label and ended up on a label that didn't give a shit about us, really," Manson tells SPIN. …
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