Today is the greatest day I've ever knownBilly’s back, baby, as the Smashing Pumpkins ready themselves to release 10th album Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., proving that the grunge dons haven’t lost their knack for overblown album titles. We’ve already heard their comeback single ...

Smashing Pumpkins try and survive a night in a haunted house in new video for Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)

"Billy Corgan is a massive Joy Division fan - and he repaid me by stealing my son!" Peter Hook, left, and his son Jack Bates performing with James Iha and Billy Corgan of Smashing PumpkinsPeter Hook has spoken of what it means to have his son Jack Bates performing in the current touring line-up of Smashing Pumpkins – as well as teasing...

Earlier this year, Car Seat Headrest released a reimagined version of his 2011 album, Twin Fantasy. Will Toledo and his band have been on tour pretty much ever since, and they just kicked off a new run of dates that will take them through to March of next year. Over the weekend, they…

Once upon a time, the Smashing Pumpkins and the Sugar Ray frontman and occasional TV-show host Mark McGrath seemed to occupy vastly different spaces on the alt-rock spectrum. But in these topsy-turvy times, the Pumpkins have recorded with Tommy Lee, so a team-up with McGrath no longer registers as any sort of shock. And now…