Garbage's Shirley Manson: “I Don’t Have to Be Young, I Don’t Have to Be Sexy – if You Cancel Me, You Cancel Me"

Shirley Manson, the Unexpected Godmother of Rock

An unanswered question in modern music history is: What happened to the culture that created all those amazing female artists in the 1990s? From Liz Phair to Björk to PJ Harvey to Hole to Bikini Kill to Tori Amos and others, women with wildly different sounds, looks and opinions were as critically and commercially powerful as, if not more than, men. Yet by the early 2000s, we were all living in a Disney pop star dominated world, in terms of main…

Garbage's Shirley Manson: “I don’t have to be young, I don’t have to be sexy – if you cancel me, you cancel me"

Garbage icon Shirley Manson has spoken to NME about using “hope as an act of resistance” on the band’s new album, as well as the situation in Palestine, overcoming the lowest point of her life, aging proudly, and fighting back against sexist tabloids. The alt-rock veterans’ eighth album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light‘ was released on Friday (May 30) and given a full five-star review by NME, who concluded that: “While the world can often f…