In the 1990s, the alternative band Garbage landed the plum gig as the opening act for Smashing Pumpkins, one of the biggest bands of the time. Even though Garbage’s lead singer Shirley Manson wrote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig of Garbage in 1995. (Credit: Paul Bergen) Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig ...

Let's face it: we're all getting older. But knowing that doesn’t make aging easier to accept. The latest "What is happening!?" moment for Gen Xers like me is seeing the rock stars we grew up idolizing ...

If we never heard a moment of Butch Vig playing an instrument, he’d still be a music icon. As a producer and engineer, he undeniably shaped the ’90s alt-rock while working on albums like the Smashing ...

Wisconsinite drummer Butch Vig, Nebraskan guitarist Duke Erikson, and Minnesotan guitarist Steve Marker met in the late ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin. Although Erikson and Vig’s bands Spooner and Fire ...