Madison has a vibrant, diverse music scene that spans more genres than I can even organize in my feeble brain. That said, very few artists within it have ever sniffed the level of success Garbage has.<\/p>\n
Platinum-selling and Grammy-nominated, the quartet sit alongside Justin Vernon and Co. in the upper echelon of Wisconsin pop music. Formed in 1993 by superproducer Butch Vig, Garbage<\/a> is an outlier among other bands of that era, playing radio-ready alt-rock that was shot through with elements of trip-hop and electronica. Their music was aggressive and primal, but it was also surprisingly sophisticated. And their self-titled debut \u2014 which featured the monster hits \u201cStupid Girl<\/a>\u201d and “Only Happy When it Rains<\/a>\u201d \u2014 is one of the essential albums of the 1990s.<\/p>\n