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The alternative rock band Garbage has sold millions of records, notched multiple Grammy nods, and recorded a decent Bond theme (“The World Is Not Enough”). By the end of the 90s, lead singer Shirley Manson was a big enough icon to be stunt cast in a Terminator TV spinoff. But just a few years earlier, there were those who dismissed the four piece as a novelty act: a bunch of aging producers (including the guy who made Nevermind) and their hand-picked, sexy Scottish alterna-pinup front woman. In the near decade since their last release (’s Bleed Like Me), their mix of electronic music, dance beats, and studio noise is now credited (along with longtime critical darlings like Nine Inch Nails) with co-rescuing modern rock from its post-grunge torpor. In that new context, it’s a good time for them to be back with their new album, Not Your Kind of People. (It’s out May 14 from their own label STUNVOLUME.) Here, Manson and co-founder/drummer Butch Vig discuss the years away, the ne
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The man behind Nirvana's Nevermind, Butch Vig, reveals what it was like to work on
Butch Vig has returned to SXSW festival for the first time in years.
The producer, known as Nevermind Man, is in Austin, Texas, for the premiere of The Smart Studio Story.
It's a music documentary about the studio, set up in with his friend Steve Marker, where Nirvana worked on one of the biggest alternative albums of all time, Nevermind.
The studio was based in the US state of Wisconsin.
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"The first time I met Nirvana, they came to Smart Studios in Madison," Butch tells Newsbeat.
"They were recording what was going to be an album for Subpop (record label) and they were pretty grungy.
"They hadn't taken a shower or a bath for four or five days. They had been sleeping in a van or crashing at people's apartments.
"They just struck me as an interesting lot, because Kurt could be very focused and c
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Butch Vig: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
“I was getting tired of recording gitarr, bass and drums,” says drummer and producer Butch Vig, speaking of the period in when he reigned as the hetaste record maker on the planet, having helmed not one, but two genre and era-defining smashes, Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. “By the time anybody heard those records, I had already produced 1, punk rock records. I needed a change.”
That creative restlessness coalesced into a plan: Along with a couple of crafty, multi-instrumentalist mates, producer/engineer and mixer Steve Marker (with whom he had co-founded Madison, Wisconsin’s Smart Studios) and Duke Erickson (a longtime cohort from the bands Spooner and Fire Town), Vig put tillsammans Garbage, a forward-thinking enhet that would push alternative rock into a new realm with the use of samplers.
“I had heard a Public Enemy record, and inom realized they were using s