Garbage

Apprenticing in cheap and fast sessions during the '80s in Madison, Wis., at his Smart
Studios, producer Butch Vig helped give structure and lucidity to the music of young bands
such as Killdozer, Tad and Urge Overkill. Then he rewrote the pop book on distortion with
Nirvana's epochal Nevermind. Quickly he became current rock's best shaper, a quietly
logical guy who could navigate the complicated corners of, say, Sonic Youth an... More >

If Whale is Tricky without a dark side, Garbage is Whale without Tricky and depressed about it ("Queer," "Supervixen")