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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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Manson performed classic Pumpkins track 'Ava Adore' with band
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan: ‘The shouldn’t be an arty band anymore’
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Corgan tells NME: ‘Our next album will kick people out of the way’
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Watch The Rock Convincingly On Kimmel
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Remember when the Smashing Pumpkins did “Zero” on Saturday Night Live? Remember how great that was? People should put the Smashing Pumpkins on TV more often. Even if sometimes they do stuff like this. Further evidence: Billy Corgan and his current backing band were on Jimmy Kimmel Live, playing the outdoor festival stage and ...
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Watch The & Die Antwoord’s Ninja Cover David Bowie
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Billy Corgan has always shown an admirable commitment to random shit, but I don’t think he’s done anything quite this high on the “wait, what” scale since he dated Tila Tequila. At a Paris show over the weekend, Corgan and his Smashing Pumpkins played a rocked-up and virtually unlistenable cover of David B...
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan On The : “The Fanbase Is Gone”
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Billy Corgan may have just put out the ninth Smashing Pumpkins album, but he doesn’t seem to have much faith in the people who got him to where he is. In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal that was conducted a few weeks ago, Corgan was asked who the typical Smashing Pumpkins fan [...]
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