Garbage

Alt darlings Garbage return to the land of guitar squalls and melodic rock after a four-year hiatus, marrying snarling guitar with sensitive storytelling and striking a balance between electronics, rock and Shirley Manson's surprisingly intimate voice. Hot tracks: "Metal Heart," "Sex Is Not the Enemy," "Boys Wanna Fight."

Garbage have been making smart hard-pop records about desire and disaster, breaking up
and starting over, for precisely a decade. It does not come easy for them. Bleed Like Me is
only their fourth album in those ten years -- their first since 2001's Beautifulgarbage -- and
making it was nearly the end of them. Early fractious sessions ground to a halt when
drummer-guitarist Butch Vig -- a celebrity in his own right for his Nineties produc... More >