Garbage

"Because The Night" digital single

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700

Due to Garbage and Screaming Females fans asking for a digital version of the cover we recorded of Bruce S and Patti Smith’s Because the Night especially for RSD , we have made it available in the US on ITUNES as from today.

“Because The Night” will be available INTERNATIONALLY on ITUNES starting MONDAY MAY 13th.

MAY 13th also marks the day that our 10” Record Store Day vinyl will FINALLY be available at indie record stores in the UK.

Check out the video below of our two bands recording the song at EastWest studios in LA earlier this year.

Marissa’s Guitar solo is not to be missed.

Urgent Record Store Day Update for UK fans

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:26:59 -0700

Calling ALL FANS in the UK ONLY!
We have just been informed that the companies involved with delivering and distributing our music in the UK have failed to deliver our 10” Limited Edition Vinyl to the UK Independent Record Stores as previously expected.

Therefore we wanted to let you all know IMMEDIATELY so you do not get bitterly disappointed tomorrow morning.

PLEASE NOTE: We have been told that the records will arrive and be on sale at the original outlets on MONDAY.
We have to take them on their word and assume this will indeed be the case.

We are so PISSED OFF and disappointed about this. And so sad that on Record Store Day in the UK our little jewel will not be available for sale.

Please accept our sincere apologies but the circumstances were WAY beyond our control.

Now you see why musicians lose their minds over the course of time and the music BUSINESS just continues to live up to it’s reputation.

"Because The Night" Official Video

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:03:33 -0700

Record Store Day is right around the corner (April 20th)!
We will be releasing a 10” vinyl featuring a cover we made with Screaming Females of Patti Smith’s “Because The Night”.

Check out the single’s official video (directed by the amazing Sophie Muller) below!

Viva Mexico Contest Update!

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:49:51 -0700

As we’ve already mentioned, it was incredibly difficult to choose our winners for the Viva Mexico Contest. We wanted you to see just how difficult, so we’ve put all of the submissions up here for all of you to see.

We also decided to make a video for our song “The One” with almost all of the images that we received. Check it out below.

Thanks again to everyone who participated. We love you and can’t wait to see you in Monterrey and Mexico City!

Garbage Viva Mexico Contest Winners

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:39:00 -0700

We truly have been amazed and moved by all the wonderful submissions we received from our awesome Mexican fans. We wish we could pick all of you as winners but unfortunately we can’t…so for those who did not win, we’re working on something special for you instead.

After much deliberation we were able to pick four favorite submissions for each show date.
But after additional deliberation, we found we simply could not narrow our favorites down to one winner in each city…so we’ll just have to stick to four winners in Monterrey and four winners in Mexico City!

And the winners are…..

Monterrey:

Carlos Moreno

Claudia Gomez Narvaez

Fernando Arredondo Ramirez

Morani Kornberg-Weiss

Mexico City:

Lucio Avila

Desiree Lucero

Jonatan Lopez Hernandez

Edgar Padilla Martinez

These artists have each won a pair of tickets to our Monterrey or Mexico City show, a meet and greet with us (includes autographs, and photos), and a piece of Garbage merch of their choosing from our merch booths on show day.

Viva Mexico Garbage Contest!

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:13:24 -0700

We are so excited to come back to Mexico to play a show for our amazing fans in Monterrey and Mexico City (whom we haven’t seen in 8 years)!
This time we want to make it extra special…

Since we know you are all so talented, we would like for you to create a Garbage inspired piece of artwork based around one of the following two subjects: Frida Kahlo OR Day Of The Dead.
Your artwork can be a photograph, a painting, a drawing, a poem, a video, lyrics or a piece of music.

On April 12th we will post our 2 favorite pieces on our Facebook and Website!

The artists behind each piece will win a pair of tickets to our Monterrey or Mexico City show, a meet and greet with Garbage (includes autographs, and photos), and a piece of Garbage merch of your choosing from our merch booths on show day.*

Please send all submissions by 10pm CST on Sunday, April 7th.
Submissions can be sent starting today to garbagemexicocontest@gmail.com

*Please include in the subject line either MONTERREY or MEXICO CITY based on which show you would prefer to attend.
Please note that we will not be able to provide any type of transportation to either show so bare this in mind when you submit your art.
Please keep all attachments under 2 MB.

North American Tour Update

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:25:27 -0700

Last night was the first show of our 2013 North American tour. Thanks to everyone in Montclair, New Jersey who came to see us perform!

Check out this amazing photo taken by Joe Papeo for www.TheWaster.com which made it onto Rolling Stone’s Hottest Live Photos Of 2013. Thanks Joe!

17 Years Later....

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:50:18 -0700

Check out our latest Letterman Performance from last night!
It’s been 17 years since we first debuted on his show. Can’t believe we’re still standing. We are all such lucky ones.

And now check out our first performance on Letterman in 1996!

Enough about us.....how about YOU!

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:07:51 -0700

To all our fans in Australia and New Zealand. Thanks for being there. You gave us your all. We won’t forget. How could we?

Love love love

from all of us

Garbage

New Music From Garbage

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:35:44 -0800

This year we once again wanted to release something special in celebration of Record Store Day 2013. We decided to record the duet that we had been performing on tour with the Screaming Females towards the end of 2012. The SF flew across country from New Jersey to Los Angeles so we could record it all together at EastWest Studio 1 in Hollywood ; 2 drum kits, 2 bass rigs, 2 guitars, 2 microphones and 1 piano. No mean feat.

The song? A cover of Patti Smith’s “Because the Night”.
Why? Because it’s awesome.

The track will be featured on a limited edition 10” vinyl dropping Record Store Day 2013 . The 10” will also include a remix by Beatport contest winner Konstantin Kazhev titled “Automatic Systematic Habit Costa Cadeu Remix” and an additional Garbage original song titled “Love Like Suicide”.

In case you missed it, check out this short video we made in honor of Record Store Day 2013.
Don’t forget to support your local record store on April 20th!

How do you like them apples?

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:49:40 -0800

A video by Sophie Muller

Tour Update

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:09 -0800

By now we’re sure you’ve heard that Mr. Eric Avery has been invited to join ranks with NIN on their recently announced world tour, and will therefore be leaving us as our resident touring bass player at the end of our upcoming North American dates. As sad as we are to see Eric go, we are all incredibly excited for him. We think the world of NIN and we think the world of Eric.

"I Think I'm Paranoid" Contest Winner

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:02:44 -0800

The band has voted and the results are in… the winner of the “I Think I’m Paranoid” t-shirt contest is:
Steve’s favorite design, created by Dom Bloink!

Dom will see her design go into production, receive the final finished t-shirt, an autographed limited edition 7” of her choosing, and a phone call from any band member she would like.

Congratulations Dom!
And thanks again to everyone for blowing us away with all the truly amazing submissions.

"I Think I'm Paranoid" T-shirt Contest, Top 4

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:28:00 -0800

It has been close to impossible…but we’ve narrowed down our pool of finalists to just four!

We’ll spend the weekend deliberating on which design will take the grand prize and on Monday we will announce who will see their design go into production, receive the final finished t shirt, an autographed limited edition 7” of their choosing, and a phone call from any band member they would like.

SHIRLEY’S PICK

DUKE’S PICK

STEVE’S PICK

BUTCH’S PICK

I Think I’m Paranoid T-shirt Contest Update: Look at all...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:31:42 -0800

I Think I’m Paranoid T-shirt Contest Update:

Look at all of your amazing submissions!
As you can imagine it has been nearly impossible for us to choose one winner…so we’ve decided to push back our official announcement date by a few days.
Today we bring you each band member’s favorite submissions.
Tomorrow we will announce each band member’s pick for winner.
Monday we will announce our official contest winner.
We want to emphasize that this has been really difficult and even if you didn’t make it into the short list, that doesn’t mean your design wasn’t fantastic or that it failed in anyway. There never is a question of one thing being “better” than another where art is concerned. These designs just happened to appeal most to each of us on this particular day.
Thanks to everyone who submitted!!

Steve’s picks: http://tinyurl.com/b69qom9
Butch’s picks: http://tinyurl.com/awbu86a
Duke’s picks: http://tinyurl.com/bd7pwe5
Shirley’s picks: http://tinyurl.com/ajmu8qo

Spring 2013 North American Tour Dates

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:13:49 -0800

Dear North American Fans,
We’ve heard your call for more shows and we are so thrilled to give you our full 2013 North American tour schedule!
Can’t wait to see you.

March 22nd: New York, NY, Terminal 5
Tickets currently on sale at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004A3DF24DE965

March 23rd: Philadelphia, PA, Electric Factory
Tickets currently on sale at www.ticketmaster.com

March 24th: Silver Spring, MD, The Fillmore
Tickets currently on sale at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15004A3DA11A431E

March 26th: Boston, MA, House of Blues
Tickets currently on sale at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01004A3CF573D126

March 27th: Montreal, QC, Metropolis
Tickets on sale February 8th at 12:00pm at www.ticketmaster.ca

March 28th: Toronto, ON, The Sound Academy
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am at www.ticketmaster.ca

March 30th: Detroit, MI, Majestic Theater
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am at www.ticketweb.com

March 31st: Cleveland, OH, House of Blues
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am at www.ticketmaster.com

April 2nd: Columbus, OH, LC Pavilion
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am at www.ticketmaster.com

April 3rd: Chicago, IL, Riviera Theatre
Tickets on sale February 16th at 10:00am at www.etix.com

April 5th: Minneapolis, MN, Mill City Nights
Tickets on sale February 15th at 10:00am at www.axs.com

April 6th: Milwaukee, WI, Eagles Ballroom
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am at http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=1705645

April 7th: Madison, WI, Orpheum Theatre
Tickets on sale February 9th at 12:00pm at www.ticketmaster.com

April 9th: St. Louis, MO, The Pageant
Tickets on sale February 8th at 5:00pm www.ticketmaster.com

April 10th: North Kansas City, MO, Harrah’s
Tickets on sale February 8th at 10:00am www.ticketmaster.com

April 12th: Las Vegas, NV, The Pearl Concert Theater
Tickets on sale February 9th at 12:00pm at www.ticketmaster.com

“I Think I’m Paranoid” call for submissions…

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:58:10 -0800

Dears, darklings, and little bones,

Because of our endless admiration for your artistic efforts, we’ve decided to run another contest that would allow us to see more of your beautiful creations. This time, we are looking for your help in designing art for a t-shirt inspired by our song “I Think I’m Paranoid”. Our favorite design will appear on a limited-run t-shirt available for sale at the Garbage merch store.

The winner of the contest will see their design go into production, receive the final finished t shirt, an autographed limited edition 7” of their choosing, and a phone call from any band member they would like.

Starting today, please submit your lovely artwork to paranoidcontest@gmail.com by 10pm PST Thursday, January 31^st*. A winner will be announced on February 7^th.

*Please keep file to 2MB and under. If your piece is selected, please be prepared to send completed art that is 300 dpi, and a high res layered PSD or Illustrator file.

Happy Holidays everyone ……stay safe and have fun...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:58:27 -0800

Happy Holidays everyone ……stay safe and have fun …….. we will see you in the new year. Thanks for everything.
Love,
garbage

PS - Thanks so much to Irene Cerro Valero and Fanny Mata for sending this lovely piece of art to us.

Since it’s the Holidays, we’ve decided to pick more than one...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:59:36 -0800

Since it’s the Holidays, we’ve decided to pick more than one winner for this month’s Instagram contest!

Evann Cash (photo on the left) has won a Steve Guitar String Necklace and Amber Harris’ (photo on right) prize is a Rainy Day Cat Tee.
Thank you so much Evann and Amber and everyone else who has been submitting concert photos to our Instagram stream (#garbagetour).

Keep up the good work!
And happy Holidays!

Garbage

Upcoming Events!

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:47:56 -0800

We are going to be very busy next week in Southern California!

On Thursday 12/6 we will be performing at the KROQ presented show at San Manuel Casino in Highland (you must be 21+ to attend). Also performing that night is the amazing Imagine Dragons!

On Friday 12/7, catch our performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno at 11:35/10:35c.

And on Saturday 12/8 we will be playing at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Gibson Amphitheater.

Hope to see you all there!

-Garbage