Butch Vig doesn’t have any hobbies. The co-founder of the rock band Garbage, who also produced the iconic Nirvana album Nevermind, among many others, isn’t distracted by building model ships in glass bottles or learning to paint by number. Instead, he remains immersed in music.
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Garbage, which put out an album in 2025, followed that up with a lengthy world tour. Fresh off a plane returning from Australia, Vig now sits in a Los Angeles studio trying to plan for a lively weekend of music in Madison, Wisconsin, figuring out where all the puzzle pieces will go…