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7NEWS
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Good Things 2025 line-up: Tool, Weezer, Garbage, James Reyne to perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as festival unveils bill
Australia's premier rock and metal festival has announced a monster bill to hit stages in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in December. Good Things 2025 will be headlined by prog metal titans Tool, visiting Australia for the first time since early 2020. The Los Angeles quartet — fronted by the enigmatic Maynard James Keenan — have performed only sporadically in 2025, most recently at Ozzy Osbourne's Back to the Beginning farewell show last month in Birmingham just weeks before the Black Sabbath icon's death at 76. A healthy dose of Nineties nostalgia will be on offer courtesy of Weezer and Garbage, the latter returning to Australia for the first time in more than a decade. Traditionally one of their strongest markets, the foursome of Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson head down under on the back of their eighth studio album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light with hits from their multi-platinum albums Garbage (1995) and beautifulgarbage (2001) in tow. Elsewhere, following in the footsteps of fellow Aussie pub rock icons Boom Crash Opera and Dragon, former Australian Crawl frontman and ARIA Hall of Fame member James Reyne will bring classic tunes such as Reckless, The Boys Light Up and Slave to the festival stage. Fans of legendary punk outfit Refused, meanwhile, will get a chance to see the band on their farewell tour. Originally forming in 1991, the Swedish band first split seven years later while touring the US in support of their seminal 1998 album The Shape Of Punk To Come before reforming in 2012. The travelling circus kicks off on December 5 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse before heading to Sydney and Brisbane on December 6 and 7 respectively. The Sydney leg will head west to the Showground at Olympic Park — previously home to spiritual predecessors Soundwave and the Big Day Out — for the first time, having been staged in the eastern suburbs' Centennial Park since 2019. Tickets for all shows go on sale from 10am on Thursday, August 21, with a pre-sale on Tuesday, August 19 accessible by signing up at Weezer Garbage | All Time Low | Machine Head | The All-American Rejects Knocked Loose | Lorna Shore | Refused | New Found Glory | Make Them Suffer Dayseeker | James Reyne | Kublai Khan TX | Cobra Starship | Goldfinger | Tonight Alive In Alphabetical Order: Palaye Royale | Scene Queen | South Arcade | Wargasm | Windwaker | Yours Truly Plus the chaos of Stage 666.
UPI
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Garbage performs 'There's No Future in Optimism' on Kimmel
June 5 (UPI) -- Rock band Garbage appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform "There's No Future in Optimism," a song from their new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light. The band -- composed of Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig -- performed on Wednesday night's show to promote the album, which released May 30. Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is Garbage's first new studio album in four years. The band thanked their fans in an Instagram post the day after the record's release. "We are all absolutely blown away by the response to our new record," the post said. Thank you so much for the outpouring of kindness we have received. Such wide open arms. Such long suffering love. Such a beautiful, most welcome surprise. Our sincere gratitude. And once again -- from the very bottom of our shriveled and dark old hearts -- thank you. And Free Palestine." Garbage's tour in support of the new album kicks off July 20 in St. Paul, Minn.
Toronto Star
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
Music Review: The rock band Garbage are defiant on new album, ‘Let All That We Imagine Be the Light'
Buzz-saw guitars, dense synthesizers and throbbing percussion can sometimes brighten the mood. That's the goal of the new album from the American rock band Garbage, 'Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.' Due for release Friday, it's the sound of frontwoman Shirley Manson pushed to the brink by health issues and the fury of our times.
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
Music Review: The rock band Garbage are defiant on new album, 'Let All That We Imagine Be the Light'
Buzz-saw guitars, dense synthesizers and throbbing percussion can sometimes brighten the mood. That's the goal of the new album from the American rock band Garbage, 'Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.' Due for release Friday, it's the sound of frontwoman Shirley Manson pushed to the brink by health issues and the fury of our times. The band's familiar sonic mix provides a pathway out of the darkness, with heavy riffing and dramatic atmospherics accompanying Manson's alluring alto. 'This is a cold cruel world,' she sings on the crunchy 'Love to Give.' 'You've gotta find the love where you can get it.' The album is Garbage's eighth and the first since 2021's 'No Gods No Masters.' The genesis came last August, when Manson aggravated an old hip injury, abruptly ending the band's world tour. The other members of the group – Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker – retreated to the studio and began work on new music. Manson added lyrics that lament fatalism, ageism and sexism, acknowledge vulnerability and mortality, and seek to embrace joy, love and empowerment. That's a lot, which may be why there's a song titled 'Sisyphus.' The sonics are formidable, too. A mix that echoes the Shangri-Las, Patti Smith and Evanescence helps to leaven the occasional overripe lyric, such as, 'There is no future that can't be designed/With imagination and a beautiful mind," in the title track. Most of the material is less New Age-y, and there's a fascinating desperation in Manson's positivity. 'Chinese Fire Horse,' for example, becomes a punky, Gen X, age-defying fist-pumper. 'But I've still got the power in my brain and my body/I'll take no (expletive) from you,' she sings. Manson sounds just as defiant singing about a love triangle on 'Have We Met (The Void),' or mourning in America on 'There's No Future in Optimism.' The album peaks on the backside with the back-to-back cuts 'Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty,' a battle cry in the gender war, and 'R U Happy Now,' a ferocious post-election rant. Then comes the closer, 'The Day That I Met God,' a weird and whimsical benedictory mix of horns, strings, faith, pain management and more. Hope and uplift can sound good loud.
San Francisco Chronicle
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Music Review: The rock band Garbage are defiant on new album, 'Let All That We Imagine Be the Light'
Buzz-saw guitars, dense synthesizers and throbbing percussion can sometimes brighten the mood. That's the goal of the new album from the American rock band Garbage, 'Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.' Due for release Friday, it's the sound of frontwoman Shirley Manson pushed to the brink by health issues and the fury of our times. The band's familiar sonic mix provides a pathway out of the darkness, with heavy riffing and dramatic atmospherics accompanying Manson's alluring alto. 'This is a cold cruel world,' she sings on the crunchy 'Love to Give.' 'You've gotta find the love where you can get it.' The album is Garbage's eighth and the first since 2021's 'No Gods No Masters.' The genesis came last August, when Manson aggravated an old hip injury, abruptly ending the band's world tour. The other members of the group – Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker – retreated to the studio and began work on new music. Manson added lyrics that lament fatalism, ageism and sexism, acknowledge vulnerability and mortality, and seek to embrace joy, love and empowerment. That's a lot, which may be why there's a song titled 'Sisyphus.' The sonics are formidable, too. A mix that echoes the Shangri-Las,Patti Smith and Evanescence helps to leaven the occasional overripe lyric, such as, 'There is no future that can't be designed/With imagination and a beautiful mind," in the title track. Most of the material is less New Age-y, and there's a fascinating desperation in Manson's positivity. 'Chinese Fire Horse,' for example, becomes a punky, Gen X, age-defying fist-pumper. 'But I've still got the power in my brain and my body/I'll take no (expletive) from you,' she sings. Manson sounds just as defiant singing about a love triangle on 'Have We Met (The Void),' or mourning in America on 'There's No Future in Optimism.' The album peaks on the backside with the back-to-back cuts 'Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty,' a battle cry in the gender war, and 'R U Happy Now,' a ferocious post-election rant. Then comes the closer, 'The Day That I Met God,' a weird and whimsical benedictory mix of horns, strings, faith, pain management and more. Hope and uplift can sound good loud.
