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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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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 [...]
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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