Foo Fighters producer Butch Vig says major labels don't to care about bands, which he learnt the hard way.
As a result, his band Garbage has decided to self-release its next record via their own label Stunvolume on May 14. It will be their first release since "Bleed Like Me" in 2005.
"We started out on independent labels both in the UK and in the US and then they ended up getting bought up by bigger corporate labels," he told NME. "In the end, no one from those labels seems to care or know who you are as a band and we just didn't like that experience."
Garbage formed in 1994, after Vig shot to fame as producer for Nivana's "Nevermind". He says recording the new Garbage album was "so easy to fall back into" after years apart:
"We wanted to embrace exactly who we are as a band and just make a Garbage record, we like to do what we like to do and we'll do that and not give a s--t about what anyone else thinks."
Speaking in January about the new record, Vig said it was a return to classic Garbage:
"The sound, vibe wise, is like the first two Garbage records, even though it doesn't sonically sound like those records," he said. "In Shirley [Manson]'s Lyrics, there's anger and intensity, but there's also optimism and hope."
Watch the teaser trailer for the new Garbage album here:
So this is all about how the band should do their thing, how the band needs to be independent from the music biz bememoth yadda yadda and all this we hear from the b... their producer?
So this is all about how the band should do their thing, how the band needs to be independent from the music biz bememoth yadda yadda and all this we hear from the b... their producer?
Two questions, can you read and do you even know who Butch Vig is?
Yeah, well let's hear what the producer of "In Utero" has to say about the industry. http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id...
Remember, if we kill the industry, then there is a level playing field for all musicians and no more need for a middleman. Music is free, performance is paid and the real cream will rise. The internet kinda pre-empts their business model the same way the car drove horse and buggy business to obscurity.
We are right, Music is free. Now watch the guilty pay!
Free is better. http://ubuntustudio.org/
but you just feel free to go ahead and send uncle fly anything you've saved toward it so far. It'll pay for my medication. I've got a neuralgia.
