Smashing Pumpkins are gearing up for their Shiny and Oh So Bright reunion tour, which features the band’s original lineup sans former bassist and noted Billy Corgan enemy D’arcy Wretzky. The tour ...

Celebrate 30 years of *Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness* with a deluxe CD set featuring unreleased live tracks and the original lineup.

Billy Corgan is not a subtle man. He fronts one of his generation’s loudest and most bombastic bands, whose masterpiece is a double album called Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Smashing ...

Billy Corgan is always looking for another envelope to push. On Tuesday night, the iconoclastic Smashing Pumpkins singer and original band members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin held a concert at the ...

There’s a standout single on Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. No, it’s not “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” (although that’s a close second), but “1979,” that melancholy ode to ...

The Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” doesn’t sound much like the music of the 1970s. Instead, it became one of the most beloved alternative rock songs of the 1990s, even though it wasn’t supposed to be a ...

There are two types of artists: The artist who deliberately explores for inspiration and the one who stumbles across it. Now, the same person can be both types of these artists, as experience and ...