Photos of Garbage at iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, FL on June 21st, 2023
Photos of Garbage at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH on May 21st, 2022
Photos of Garbage at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on May 3rd, 2019
Photos of Garbage at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY on October 27th, 2018
Photos of Garbage at Beacon Theatre in New York, NY on August 1st, 2017
Photos of Garbage at Harrah’s Council Bluffs Hotel & Casino in Council Bluffs, IA on July 19th, 2017
Photos of Garbage at Central Park SummerStage in New York, NY on August 1st, 2016
Photos of Garbage at Fox Theater in Oakland, CA on October 7th, 2015
Photos of Garbage at La Zona Rosa in Austin, TX on October 10th, 2012
Photos of Garbage at 2012 Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal, PQ, Canada
While Garbage came up in the alt-nineties, their music hewed more mainstream, though they were early on adopting electronics. Their twenty-first century return with 2012’s Not Your Kind of People (QRO review) was a welcome one, with 2016’s Strange Little Birds (QRO review) seeing them step forward into this new world. No Gods No Masters keeps the classic Garbage while upping the rage.
Shirley Manson is an awesome frontwoman, and really gets her licks in with kiss-off pieces such as “The Men Who Rule the World” and “Flipping the Bird”. She takes on toxic masculinity and power, something she is particularly well equipped to attack, including dark tracks like “Godhead”, the crushing “A Woman Destroyed”, and the crushed closer “This City Will Kill You”. There is that classic Garbage energy behind pressing numbers like “The Creeps” and “Bird”, but meanwhile the sultry & decadent “Anonymous XXX” also still has that hint of desperation.
The tech effects are amped up even more on No Gods No Masters, sometimes for the better such as the title track (QRO review), though the rhythm can be a bit oppressive at other times. But we are living in an oppressing, oppressed world, and Garbage are fighting it all the way.