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Alternative icons Garbage have announced a 20th anniversary reissue of their 1998 album Version 2.0, home of classic tracks like "I Think I'm Paranoid." The reissue will tack on 10…

A new clip from the documentary about Butch Vig and Steve Marker's legendary Wisconsin studio, The Smart Studios Story, premiered today on Pitchfork. The studio…

Shirley Manson refers to herself a "truth-seeker." "I’ve been taught that when people ask, 'How are you,' they’re not looking to hear how you actually are,"

Shirley Manson is still one of our favorite interview subjects, and in a brand new installment of the Song Exploder podcast, you can hear her…

Between 1982 and 2010, Butch Vig's Smart Studios served as an alt-rock fortress in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded by Vig and fellow Garbage member Steve Marker,…

Dave Grohl may continue to hold the Nicest Dude in Rock title, but right now he's up there with Green Day and No Doubt when…

In case you hadn't heard over the past, oh, two decades, Dave Grohl is a 21st century analog boy. Really analog. Through and through, analog…

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…

"There's 11 songs and front to back, there's not one sleepy ballad," Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl recently said of the group's upcoming disc. He…

Antiestablishment anger is as crucial an element of rock'n'roll as cars and girls, but where do you turn when the escapism becomes as stultifying and…