Two of the best interviews in rock are heading out on tour together. Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced a few weeks of summer dates, meaning Gallagher and Billy Corgan -- who, besides their shared loquacious tendencies, have also penned more than a few classics between them -- will share the…

Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds announce August tour - AFI will be special guests

Weezer have just dropped a surprise covers album, The Teal Album, including renditions of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," "Billie Jean," "Mr. Blue Sky," and of course, "Africa." Frontman Rivers Cuomo has previously performed live covers of R.E.M.’s "Losing My Religion," the Smashing Pumpkins’ "Today," Oasis' "Champagne Supernova," and Pix...

The Smashing Pumpkins reunion just keeps getting messier.

A year ago, we were still wondering about a potential Smashing Pumpkins classic-lineup reunion -- what it might look like, whether it might even be possible. Well, it was possible, and it happened -- without D'Arcy Wretzky, maybe, but it still happened. The year of the Pumpkins is in the books. There was an arena…