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Live Gallery: Garbage Return to Australia with a Powerful, Poised Night at the Sydney Opera House 14.12.2025

Garbage’s sold-out return to the Sydney Opera House is a reminder of the band’s enduring power, as Shirley Manson and company deliver a set that feels both resolute and deeply human in a city grappling with tragedy.

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Live Gallery: Heat, Blood and Holy Noise: Good Things 2025 Burns Sydney Alive

Good Things 2025 arrives in Sydney like a heat-stricken carnival, pushing thousands of fans through a day of blistering sets from Garbage, Refused, Wargasm, Fever 333, Weezer, and Tool. From GWAR’s blood-spray theatrics to Shirley Manson’s searing stage presence and Maynard’s shadow-lurking mystique, the festival turns Olympic Park into a furnace of sound, sweat and defiance.

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News: Garbage Announce December 2025 Australia and New Zealand Tour

Garbage will return to Australia and New Zealand this December for their first headline shows since 2016, performing in Auckland, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. The tour celebrates their 2025 album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light — a reflective, human record that marks another chapter in the band’s enduring evolution.

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News: Weezer, Garbage, Refused and More Join TOOL for Good Things Festival

TOOL will headline Good Things Festival 2025, their first Australian festival set in 14 years, joined by Weezer, Garbage, All Time Low, Machine Head and others.

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Track: Garbage Unleash Snarling New Single “Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty”

Garbage are back with “Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty” — a snarling anthem for anyone done playing nice.

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News: Garbage announce new album ‘No Gods, No Masters’ and release eviscerating single ‘The Men Who Rule The World’

Legendary band Garbage have just announced news of a new album, ‘No Gods, No Masters’ – their seventh – for 11 June 2021 and, in anticipation, have released the single…

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Track: San Mei – Wonder

San Mei is the work of Gold Coast’s Emily Hamilton and her new single, ‘Wonder’, is a fantastic, slightly scuzzy, psych-tinged blast of pop. Incorporating elements of Black Rebel Motorcycle…

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Album Review: Wild Meadows – Wild Meadows

The debut album from Melbourne’s Wild Meadows is, quite simply put, a promise delivered. Last year we enthusiastically reviewed their debut single ‘Feel the Noise’ and observed it was a…

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News: Garbage Announce 20th anniversary Queer tour

Apparently, it happened on August 15th 1995, although I can hardly believe its 20 year ago. Through all the grunnge and associated alt rock, something cut through. Something that was…

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