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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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Billy Corgan was out here slagging off Eddie Vedder in last week’s infamous “top two scribes” interview, and he continued his Pearl Jam diss campaign during a visit to The Howard Stern Show this morning to promote the Smashing Pumpkins’ new Monuments To An Elegy. Noting that he loves competition and hates ...
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End-of-year lists — including ours — may have already hit the internet, but there are still a few releases left in these waning weeks of 2014. One of them is Monuments To An Elegy, the Smashing Pumpkins’ followup to 2012′s Oceania, and the first in a planned set of sister albums that Billy Corgan has [...]
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The Smashing Pumpkins just put out their new album, Monuments To An Elegy, and they celebrated with a show at Koko in London on Friday night. Marilyn Manson was a special guest during the concert and came out during the encore to perform his new song “Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge” and join [...]
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Premature Evaluation: The Monuments To An Elegy
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The Smashing Pumpkins defy easy narratives, but it seems safe to say the band’s “classic era” ended as soon as its “classic lineup” fractured. The Pumpkins’ immortal first three albums — 1991′s Gish, ’93′s Siamese Dream, and ’95̸...
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The first song to be released from the Smashing Pumpkins’ upcoming Monuments To An Elegy, “Being Beige,” was not especially promising: not a Teargarden-esque disaster, but not even on the level of the band’s last LP, 2012′s strong Oceania. The brand new “One And All” is a cons...
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