BAND WILL RELEASE ALBUM ACROSS THE GLOBE VIA LICENSING
DEALS WITH COOPERATIVE MUSIC, LIBERATOR, SONY AND UNIVERSAL CANADA
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Garbage today
announced the launch of their record label, STUNVOLUME. The band will
self-release its highly anticipated upcoming studio album later this
spring. STUNVOLUME will be distributed by Fontana in the United
States. Around the world, Garbage will release their album on
STUNVOLUME via licensing deals with Cooperative Music in Asia, Europe and
Latin America,Liberator Music/The Mushroom Group in Australia and New
Zealand, Sony in Japan and Universal Canada in Canada.
The band has been in the studio putting the finishing
touches on their fifth studio album and their first in seven years. The
new album is being recorded in a basement in the Atwater Village area of Los
Angeles, CA, the first to be recorded outside of Madison, WI. The
album is being produced by Garbage, engineered by Billy Bush, and mixed by
Butch Vig and Billy Bush.
After forming in Madison, WI, Garbage released their
self-titled debut album in 1995 and rode a wave of visually arresting,
female-fronted alternative rock bands. The album spawned the hit
singles "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains" and
was certified double platinum in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. The band won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 1996
MTV Europe Music Awards, and was nominated for the Best New Artist
Grammy® Award. Their second album, Version 2.0,
was released in 1998 and topped the charts in the United Kingdom. It
was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Rock
Album. 2001's Beautiful Garbage was named one of
Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Albums Of The Year. In 2005, Garbage
released Bleed Like Me, earning the band it's highest chart
position with a No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. In 2007,
the band released a retrospective collection called Absolute Garbage.
Garbage has sold over 12 million albums worldwide. They have performed
in over thirty-five countries and will tour extensively worldwide in support
of this new release.
Garbage is Shirley Manson (vocals), Steve Marker
(guitars, keyboards), Duke Erikson (guitars, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums,
loops).
www.garbage.com
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