It’s 1983. Def Leppard and Journey dominate the music charts, hair metal is all the rave and nothing’s hotter than Motley Crue. Converse were the shoes of choice, led by Lakers superstar Magic Johnson ...

If we never heard a moment of Butch Vig playing an instrument, he’d still be a music icon. As a producer and engineer, he undeniably shaped the ’90s alt-rock while working on albums like the Smashing ...

Alt-rockers Garbage were trailblazers throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, offering an inventive sound of dirtied-up post-grunge electropop to the world. Their unique style and songcraft have carried ...

Fourteen years ago producer Butch Vig, also the drummer for Garbage, produced for a relatively unknown band, fusing the punk rock do-it-yourself philosophy with a big, polished stadium rock sound.