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Sat Apr 6
8 pm
Garbage and IO Echo at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom
Initially, Garbage’s calling card was drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, among other grunge-era classics. In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm’s length. After all, grunge was obsessed with the admittedly slippery ethic of authenticity. Garbage, by grunge’s standards, had none. Here was a group blatantly manufactured by Vig and guitarist Duke Erikson, journeymen who first played together professionally in 1975. The multiplatinum sales of 1995’s Garbage (and to a lesser extent, 1998’s Version 2.0) proved that the band’s sharp, dark hooks—plus Shirley Manson’s kohl-eyed vocal melodrama—could triumph on their own terms, as an oasis of slickness in a desert of flannel. After two lackluster albums in the ’00s, though, it seemed that Garbage had been relegated to the retro landfill. But with 2012’s Not Your Kind Of People, Vig and crew aim to turn back time—or just refreeze it.
The Rave/Eagles Ballroom 2401 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Initially, Garbage’s calling card was drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana’s Nevermind, among other grunge-era classics. In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm’s length. After all, grunge was obsessed with the admittedly slippery ethic of authenticity. Garbage, by grunge’s standards, had none. Here was a group blatantly manufactured by Vig and guitarist Duke Erikson, journeymen who first played together professionally in 1975. The multiplatinum sales of 1995’s Garbage (and to a lesser extent, 1998’s Version 2.0) proved that the band’s sharp, dark hooks—plus Shirley Manson’s kohl-eyed vocal melodrama—could triumph on their own terms, as an oasis of slickness in a desert of flannel. After two lackluster albums in the ’00s, though, it seemed that Garbage had been relegated to the retro landfill. But with 2012’s Not Your Kind Of People, Vig and crew aim to turn back time—or just refreeze it.
Updated 04/06/2013
