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Pop-rock experimentalists Garbage are currently holed up in their Madison, Wisconsin, studio working on a new album, but singer Shirley Manson surfaced online Tuesday to talk about the band's progress.

Despite that snag, the band continues to plow ahead on a new album, and Manson said she's been playing more guitar in the studio this time around.

"I decided that I wanted to play more guitar in the live context because I got a little disheartened on tour last summer when Garbage was playing all the summer festivals, and I found myself to be the only female on the bill," Manson explained. "I decided there and then that I would go back home and learn to play my guitar like a pro because I wanted to inspire people, particularly women, to pick up a guitar and make a noise."

It is indeed true that I've softened my hard-line approach toward Britney [Spears] simply because if we're going to have any such vacuous pop stars in our midst, it's all right if it's Britney because she has a sense of humor, unlike [Christina Aguilera] and that hideous creature Mandy Moore. I try not to dis too many of my fellow female musicians, but I make an exception when they really hit rock bottom. Mandy Moore is foul, you must admit. She is absolutely hideous. I want to slap her from here to Tuesday."

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