Garbage puts on a Beautiful show at 9:30 Club
Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club was sold out both Monday and Tuesday night this week as Garbage came to an old haunt to support the band's third album, Beautiful Garbage. So, on Monday night, I was mere feet away from one of the most brilliant minds in modern rock - Butch Vig (the producer behind Nirvana's Nevermind) - and even closer to one of the most powerful and sexy female vocalists in all of rock history - Shirley Manson. The last time I had seen Manson, Vig and bandmates Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, had been in 1996, back when Manson was still a redhead, at D.C.'s RFK Stadium. Eight years later, Manson is a blond and the band is on a new label, but that hasn't changed the fact that Garbage puts on an electrifying show.