STACK #200 Jun 2021

FEATURE MUSIC

GARBAGE GET SERIOUS ABOUT SEVENS

S cottish rock icons been defiant – but they've never employed a ferocity as undisguised as that which appears on upcoming album No Gods No Masters , their most politically- charged record yet. Says Garbage have always frontwoman Shirley Manson: "This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content: the seven virtues, the seven sorrows, and the seven

RISE AGAINST RETURN RENEWED

F iery and fervid, Nowhere Generation is the first album in four years from adored Chicago punk-rock act Rise Against. As outspoken in their sonic social commentary as ever, frontman Tim McIlrath puts it plainly: “Today there is the promise of the American Dream, and then there is the reality of the American Dream... When the privileged climb the ladder of success and then burn it from the top, disruption becomes the only answer.”

deadly sins. It was our way of trying to make sense of how f-cking nuts the world is, and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in. It’s the record we felt that we had to make at this time." And fans are ready to hear it; the record is available in a number of different editions and formats, including neon green vinyl and white vinyl.

Nowhere Generation by Rise Against is out June 4 via Liberator.

No Gods No Masters by Garbage is out June 11 via Liberator.

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