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As the reunited icons return with a new album, Andrew Trendell meets Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin to talk friendship, the future, life after D'Arcy and that Disneyland meme... Smashing PumpkinsTheirs is the story they were never meant to have. The band who swam against the tide of trend and expectation became a cliche rock n’ roll car crash of drugs, death, in-fighting and implosion, all under the shadow of one of what the media would have you believe was one of rock’s most tyrannical […]The post Billy loadsamates: the ‘rebooted’ Smashing Pumpkins on making music and fighting their own myth appeared first on NME.
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The Smashing Pumpkins have shared a video for the Monuments To An Elegy track “Drum + Fife,” which was directed by the duo of Robin Antiga and Jimmy Ahlander. “I asked, albeit in an allegorical way, for the video to represent what our returning soldiers are going through with PTSD, and I feel that the […]
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Billy Corgan says that the clip 'represents what returning soldiers are going through with PTSD'
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan Says ' Future Is 'Murky'
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With the touring now complete, Billy Corgan has expanded on quotes that the Smashing Pumpkins might be on the outs in his mind, noting that fans might be too fixated with the past
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The Smashing Pumpkins: future is 'murky' says Billy Corgan
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‘More and more of the audience is fixated on the past,’ says frontman and founder
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan tells crowd he wants to be known as 'William' - watch
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