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Garbage

American rock band
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Summary

Garbage is a musical group[1]. Garbage ranks in the top 2% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,162 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: alternative rock[3]
  • Record label: Mushroom Records[4], Almo Sounds[5]
  • Discography: Garbage discography[6]
  • Commons category: Garbage (musical group)[7]
  • Country of origin: United States[8]
  • Has part(s): Shirley Manson[9]
  • Inception: 1993[10]
  • Location of formation: Wisconsin[11]
  • Official website: http://www.garbage.com/[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Garbage (band)[13]
  • Commons gallery: Garbage (band)[14]
  • Catalog: Women of Rock Oral History Project[15]
  • Nominated for: Grammy Award for Best New Artist[16]
  • Topic has template: Template:Garbage[17]
  • Official name: Garbage[18]
  • Start of work period: 1993[19]
  • Member category: Category:Garbage (band) members[20]
  • Social media followers: 161,972[21], 159,118[22], 170,761[23], 287,000[24], 175,863[25], 321,000[26]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[27]

  • Country: US[28]

  • Began / founded: 1994[29]

  • Genre(s): alternative dance, alternative rock, industrial rock, post-grunge, trip hop[30]

  • Community tags: alternative dance, alternative rock, industrial rock, post-grunge, trip hop[31]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f9ef7a22-4262-4596-a2a8-1d19345b8e50[32]

Why It Matters

Garbage has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Garbage is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Garbage has been cited as an influence by Evanescence[35], a rock band[36], founded in 1994[37].

FAQs

Who did Garbage influence?

Garbage has been cited as an influence by Evanescence[35].

Related Entities

Shirley Manson United States Wisconsin

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bluesky handle → garbage.com
    Tv tropes id → Music/Garbage
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Tv tropes id: Music/Garbage"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Shirley Manson
    Has parts → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Garbage (band)
    Record label → —
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: k0005080-Garbage-hudebni-skupina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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