Garbage kicks off its eighth and latest album with the song “There’s No Future in Optimism.” And it subsequently let fans know they should not be optimistic about the band’s future.

A day after its appropriately titled Happy Endings Tour began last month, the band posted a social media message calling it “our last North American headline tour” and adding that “if truth be told, it is unlikely we will play many of the cities on this tour ever again,” though without explicitly calling it a farewell trek.

“We’ve been a band for 30 years with the original lineup,” notes drummer Butch Vig, 70, via Zoom from Los Angeles. The producer of Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Gish” and other notable alt-rock albums formed Garbage in Wisconsin with friends Duke Erikson and Steve Marker a

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