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Listen To New Smashing Pumpkins Song ‘Being Beige’: Alternative rock outfit release first song off new album Monuments To An Elegy. The Smashing Pumpkins released their first single off forthcoming album Monuments To An Elegy. The track, entitled Being Beige (World’s On Fire), features Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee on drums. You can listen to it […]
Billy Corgan whets Smashing Pumpkin fans appetites for the deluxe Adore reissue with demo of ‘Let Me Give The World To You’ Smashing Pumpkins’s massive ‘Adore’ deluxe box-set won’t be released until September 23rd, but frontman Billy Corgan is giving fans a peek into its contents. Corgan posted a demo of ‘Let Me Give The World To You’ on […]
Billy Corgan Announces Smashing Pumpkins ‘Adore’ Reissue Details; Smashing Pumpkins darkest album to be given a 6 disc deluxe makeover, Just a few months back, I reported that Billy Corgan was putting the finishing touches on a deluxe reissue of Smashing Pumpkins’ 1998 album ‘Adore.’ And today he put up an official press release on […]
Smashing Pumpkins Adore Reissue Details Revealed: deluxe edition of band’s dark opus will include six discs, including rarities and a concert DVD. Fans of the Smashing Pumpkin’s dark gem Adore can rejoice; today frontman Billy Corgan announced news of the long-in-the-works deluxe reissue today on the band’s official site. In addition to new stereo and […]
Smashing Pumpkins Announce 2 New Albums For 2015: Billy Corgan adds lots of nebulous terminology for dramatic effect on band’s new website. Okay, so yesterday was supposed to be the BIG news about the future of the Smashing Pumpkins. Well Monday came and went with nary a peep from Billy Corgan. But today, news did […]
Smashing Pumpkins To Make Major Announcement On Monday: SP fan site says to expect big news from Billy Corgan and co. on Monday, March 24th. UPDATED: Click here for official announcement. According to Alternativenation.net Smashing Pumpkins fans should be on high alert next Monday for a big announcement. As far as what the announcement is? […]
Smashing Pumpkins ‘Siamese Dream’ Turns 25 Years Old; A look back at an alt-rock masterpiece. This is the first in a series of Albums Revisited. So Smashing Pumpkins ‘Siamese Dream‘ turned 25 this week. Good lord. I feel old. Where’d the time go? I was 22 it came out. I was also a mess of […]
The Smashing Pumpkins ‘Oceania’ Album Review [rating=4] Has there ever been a band more polarizing than the Smashing Pumpkins? And it all has to do with frontman Billy Corgan. His songwriting and guitar playing skills helped make them one of the biggest acts on the 90’s, with the classic albums ‘Gish’, ‘Siamese Dream’ and ‘Mellon Collie and […]
Listen to New Smashing Pumpkins Album Oceania **UPDATE: The time to preview “Oceania” in its entirety has passed. But don’t despair, as you can still preview snippets and purchase on iTunes and Amazon by clicking on one of the links below. And you can read my album review by clicking here. ; The Smashing Pumpkins […]
Silversun Pickups Neck Of The Woods Review *Silversun Pickups return for their 1st album since 2009. Is it any good? I tend to lament the lack of heavy rock now offered in the 2000’s/2010’s, etc. I vented about this in my first ever blog post. Younger folks may claim that there’s just too much nostalgia […]
