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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: Billy Corgan Teases Live Mellon Collie Suite; Watch Him Rehearse The Album’s Title Track
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Later this month, Billy Corgan is playing a special semi-acoustic solo show at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, near his Chicago hometown. He’s asked fans to write their dream setlists for the show, while also making plain that he won’t necessarily play all the songs that everyone wants to hear. In a new [...]
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The Smashing Pumpkins: – “Let Me Give The World To You” (Adore Outtake Version)
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Back in April, Billy Corgan announced that the Smashing Pumpkins’ divisive 1998 LP, Adore, would be reissued with tons of bonus material, and now, we’ve got one of the album’s session’s unreleased songs, “Let Me Give The World To You” (a different version of which eventually appeared on...
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan accuses Amazon of leaking 'Adore' reissue tracklisting
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The 107-track version of the 1998 album will be released in September
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan confirms drummer Mike Byrne has left
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He featured on 2009's 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope' and 2012's 'Oceania'
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HIM: Billy Corgan Reissuing Pumpkins’ Machina, Internet Goes Nuts For Photo Of Him With Cats
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2000′s Machina/The Machines Of God was the last album the Smashing Pumpkins released before going away for a while, the one where Jimmy Chamberlain came back and Melissa Auf der Maur took over for D’Arcy Wretzky on bass. It doesn’t boast the critical adulation and cultural resonance reserved for Siamese Dream and Me...
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