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but the album’s whimsical cover art suggests fantasy. The opening riff dates back to 1993. Corgan later wrote the chorus while the Smashing Pumpkins recorded their Fleetwood Mac cover of ...
Reignition has set a date for their tribute to the Smashing Pumpkins titled The Killer In You. The label describes the compilation simply as "a tribute album to the best band of the past decade" and ...
Smashing Pumpkins perform onstage at the Double Door, Chicago, Illinois, March 5, 1995. Pictured are, from left, D'Arcy Wretzky, on bass guitar, Billy Corgan, on guitar, Jimmy Chamberlin, on drums, ...
The classic Smashing Pumpkins line-up were so dysfunctional that they couldn’t even split up properly. It was in the wake of the response to 1998’s Adore, a muted album that got a muted ...
Smashing Pumpkins' iconic third album Mellon Collie and the Infinite ... rock, and performance art.” “It is thrilling to collaborate with Lyric head John Mangum, my musical partner James ...
Billy Corgan is celebrating the anniversary of a couple of pivotal Smashing Pumpkins recordings by taking a non-Smashing Pumpkins project on the road to play Smashing Pumpkins songs. Billy Corgan ...
The last Smashing Pumpkins album was 2012’s Oceania. “For those interested in sound, think: ‘guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars,” he writes, “but more so on the epic side of ...
Corgan fired drummer Jimmy Chamberlin after multiple overdoses and The Smashing Pumpkins returned in fragmented form with the 1998 electronic album Adore. It divided fans then. But Corgan’s ...