With its misguided setlists and passive-aggressive outbursts, the Smashing Pumpkins' 20th anniversary tour has left even hard core fans hurt and confused. It's hard to believe that Billy Corgan is surprised by the negative fan reaction, as he suggested at... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN PROMISES NO MORE ALBUMS, ONLY SINGLES THAT NICKELBACK FANS WILL LIKE»
Posted on December 10, 2008 (35 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
Lo and behold, Billy Corgan found time apart from his 20th anniversary staged exorcisms to make a video. It's for "G.L.O.W," which still isn't sung by the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. There are some fairly impressive get ups, though (see... CONTINUE READING NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO - "G.L.O.W."»
Posted on December 2, 2008 in (15 comments)
Tags: Andrew Bird | Billy Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
These Smashing Pumpkins shows aren't going so well. In part for their crowd-confounding setlists, but more so for their consistent devolution into excruciatingly awkward Corgan therapy sessions. The latest dispatch from the fault lines comes from the Pumpkins' hometown shows... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN TO CHICAGO: "WHY ARE YOU UPSET WITH US?"»
Posted on November 20, 2008 in (50 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | Jarvis Cocker | The Smashing Pumpkins
Since Billy already invited a heckler onstage to ridicule him in NYC, he had to pull out a different gimmick at Constitution Hall, D.C. This time when faced with a heckler who didn't like the "Everything Is Beautiful" encore, which... CONTINUE READING LATEST PUMPKINS CONCERT DRAMA ENDS WITH "JAMES IHA" CAMEO »
Posted on November 12, 2008 (12 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | James Iha | Jesca Hoop | The Smashing Pumpkins | Vampire Weekend
Reviews of the Smashing Pumpkins' two night stand in NYC last week haven't been kind. "Things quickly fell off a cliff, bogged down by tuneless dirges like the reworked version of 'Heavy Metal Machine' and a noisy, directionless cover of... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN INVITES HECKLER ONSTAGE TO RIDICULE HIM»
Posted on November 10, 2008 in , , (74 comments)
Tags: Bat For Lashes | Billy Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
That Smashing Pumpkins celebratory 20th Anniversary DVD, If All Goes Wrong, is out next week: The 2-disc set looks at SP's 2007 19-show comeback tour, also dedicating an entire disc to live footage from their 2007 residency at the Fillmore,... CONTINUE READING NEW LIVE SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO - "99 FLOORS"»
Posted on November 6, 2008 in (13 comments)
Tags: Frightened Rabbit | Nine Inch Nails | The Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan had an eventful weekend. On Friday, he put on his spookiest evening gown and played "G.L.O.W." and "Tarantula" for Jimmy Kimmel. The next day, his Pumpkins headlined a Guitar Hero World Tour launch party in West Hollywood, where... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS PLAY "DISARM" WITH JOSH GROBAN, NEW TUNES AT BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in , (22 comments)
Tags: Guitar Hero | Josh Groban | Paul Simon | Simon And Garfunkel | The Smashing Pumpkins
Kimmel introduces the Pumpkins by noting "G.L.O.W." is "the only song ever recorded exclusively for Guitar Hero World Tour." At this point in their career, I'd imagine this is a fact they'd want to bury under the more impressive aspects... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS "G.L.O.W." ON JIMMY KIMMEL»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in (6 comments)
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Last week brought us the Smashing Pumpkins' "G.L.O.W." (the non-wrestling version). This week Billy Corgan's talking about the 20th Anniversary tour that launches on Halloween and, as he told Spinner, the Pumpkins "treated ... as a special one-time event," e.g.... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS PREP ANNIVERSARY TOUR, CONCEPT ALBUM»
Posted on October 20, 2008 (10 comments)
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Earlier today we reported on the forthcoming Smashing Pumpkins DVD, but we've spent much more time talking about new song "G.L.O.W." Well, it finally hit the airwaves -- which means the radio beat Guitar Hero to the premiere. (For the... CONTINUE READING NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS - "G.L.O.W."»
Posted on October 13, 2008 (8 comments)
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Twentieth anniversary double-DVD set If It All Goes Wrong hits stores 11/11. EW has a preview of "Starla."... CONTINUE READING GET A SNEAK PEEK OF THE SMASHING PUMPKINS DVD»
Posted on October 13, 2008 in (0 comments)
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Earlier this year "Doomsday Clock" was nabbed by ROH Wrestling as the background music for one of the league's compilation videos, and the Smashing Pumpkins just keep on picking up fans in wrestling where they lost them in independent record... CONTINUE READING THE SMASHING PUMPKINS' "TARANTULA" VIDEO GETS A WRESTLING REMIX»
Posted on October 1, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins | TV On The Radio
Billboard reports Guitar Hero World Tour will premiere the new Pumpkins single "G.L.O.W." (along with a playable Billy avatar) when it is released this fall, giving superfans a few months to figure out how to create pirated MP3s from tracks... CONTINUE READING WANT NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS? GET GUITAR HERO.»
Posted on September 2, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Dirty Projectors | Feist | Guitar Hero | Mika Miko | Sharon Jones | SXSW | The National | The Smashing Pumpkins
As you may have heard, the trailer for Zach Snyder's The Watchmen features a Smashing Pumpkins song, "The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning." That's different than "The End Is the Beginning Is the End," which appeared with the... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN TALKS WATCHMEN TRAILER, "G.L.O.W." SINGLE»
Posted on July 31, 2008 in (16 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | Bono | BRIT Awards | Ganglians | SXSW | The Smashing Pumpkins | U2
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. Okay, I'll admit it: I fell for the cover trick. It's Kerrang!, right?... CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: KERRANG!, JULY 4, 1998»
Posted on July 22, 2008 in (21 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | Courtney Love | Kim Gordon | Nine Inch Nails | Sonic Youth | The Smashing Pumpkins
The Gish tour is moving to '09, the August shows will be small and loose, and the November SP20 shows will be a Big Deal. Says Billy: "The August tour is going to be a blast... Expect a very loud... CONTINUE READING THE SMASHING PUMPKINS LINE UP 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR»
Posted on July 9, 2008 (12 comments)
Tags: Cat Power | Datarock | SXSW | The Smashing Pumpkins
That headline may have you feeling shivers down your spine, so I don't mean to crush the moment but I'm gonna, so mark my words: This will go down as a golden age for the music industry's inventive (not inventive)... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS HINT AT GISH BOX, TOUR»
Posted on June 23, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
The boys of DCFC are gearing up for a busy festival season -- Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Pemberton -- where they'll be playing songs from the forthcoming Narrow Stairs, which hasn't leaked yet. Spin recently sat down with them at Ahmet... Dark Side Would Be Like Ringo Performing Sgt. Pepper's"'">CONTINUE READING BEN GIBBARD: "ROGER WATERS DOING DARK SIDE WOULD BE LIKE RINGO PERFORMING SGT. PEPPER'S"»
Posted on April 25, 2008 (42 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Ben Gibbard | Coachella | Death Cab For Cutie | Pink Floyd | Roger Waters | The Smashing Pumpkins
Remember what we said the other day about Billy currently being better at bitching than making worthwhile music? A Rolling Stone Q&A with the man proves our point yet again. Well, to be fair, before the bitching he does say... CONTINUE READING BILLY CORGAN ON RADIOHEAD: "PUBLICITY IS BETTER THAN MUSIC"»
Posted on March 27, 2008 (74 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | The Smashing Pumpkins
According to the AP wire, "the Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records, saying the record label has illegally used their name and music in promotional deals [with Pepsi and Amazon.com] that hurt the band's credibility with fans." No, Billy, your... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS SUE VIRGIN OVER "PEPSI STUFF" CAMPAIGN»
Posted on March 25, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
Record sales are in the shitter. Kids like the singles, albums lose money, etc. ... so, nothing about Spinner's recent interview with Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin seemed particularly out of place or controversial. On what he and Billy had in... CONTINUE READING SMASHING PUMPKINS WON'T MAKE ANY MORE RECORDS ... UNLESS THEY WILL»
Posted on March 20, 2008 (22 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
We'll spare you a little confusion over this video up front: No, those hirsute has-beens playing bass and tambourine aren't in the Smashing Pumpkins. For that matter, "SuperChrist" isn't even a song that appears on Zeitgeist. But this clip is... CONTINUE READING NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO - "SUPERCHRIST"»
Posted on February 27, 2008 in (32 comments)
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Yeah, we've been tough on Billy Corgan and Co. for selling smashed guitars and sleepwalking through pointless contests, but have to hand it to them for the array of official free Pumpkins bootlegs -- starting from '88! -- that popped... CONTINUE READING FREE SMASHING PUMPKINS BOOTLEGS FROM BACK WHEN YOU LOVED 'EM»
Posted on September 21, 2007 (14 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
Been a lot of shots fired at Billy since he announced the "reunion" of the Pumpkins. (And just when you thought it'd died down, Trent Reznor got in on the fun.) In fairness, he's done plenty to make himself a... CONTINUE READING NEW SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO - "THAT'S THE WAY (MY LOVE IS)"»
Posted on August 29, 2007 in (21 comments)
Tags: The Smashing Pumpkins
We told you about the Ask A Pumpkin! promotion way back when … Well, Billy and Jimmy have answers to their favorite questions! Sadly, their favorites queries and ours weren't very similar. There'd been etiquette tips like "keep it simple... CONTINUE READING ASKED AND SELECTIVELY ANSWERED: THE SMASHING PUMPKINS COME CLEAN ABOUT ... VERY LITTLE»
Posted on August 16, 2007 in (5 comments)
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