Articles tagged "smashing pumpkins"

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The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (video collection)

by Allison Taich

[26.Oct.09] :. Fourteen years ago this week: the Smashing Pumpkins released their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, on Virgin Records. For the first and only time in the...

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Books Review

Grunge by Michael Lavine and Thurston Moore

by Brendan Fitzgerald

[26.Oct.09] :. Sub Pop's first lens on the grunge scene offers an early look at the signs of flannel to come, and the distinctive regional imprints on the sounds that followed punk.

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Sound Affects

The Smashing Pumpkins - “Hello Kitty Kat”

by AJ Ramirez

[11.Oct.09] :. If I were to pick a definitive Smashing Pumpkins song, it would be the overlooked nugget “Hello Kitty Kat”, originally released as a b-side to the single “Today” in 1993, and...

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News

Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan sells out by giving it up for the ever-questionable Ticketmaster

by Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[24.Mar.09] :. Did you hear the one about the creatively spiraling rock star who wrote a letter to Congress expressing his support for the proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation? Next up, we’ll...

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Tinted Windows - “Kind of a Girl” (stream)

by Jer Fairall

[3.Mar.09] :. Tinted Windows is a power-pop supergroup made up of the odd-until-you-really-think-about-it crew of Taylor (the middle one) Hanson, Fountains of Wayne tunesmith Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing...

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Events Review

Smashing Pumpkins

by Chris Catania

[8.Jan.09] :. Billy Corgan’s new experiments rock like the older hits but they lack the secret ingredient that makes past Smashing Pumpkin tracks transcendent -- melody and a compelling emotional storyline.

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Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins: ‘We’re not the retirement band playing our old hits’

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[16.Dec.08] :. Are rock bands meant to last 20 years? “No, no, they’re not,” Billy Corgan said backstage last week at the Auditorium Theatre. Which sounds a little odd coming from someone whose...

 

Smashing Pumpkins Call in Sick

by Chris Catania

[23.Nov.08] :. Smashing Pumpkins Fans Speak Their Minds.

 

Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong

by Evan Sawdey

[11.Nov.08] :. This may not show Corgan in the most favorable light, but it shows him in an honest one, making for a surprisingly humanizing viewing experience.

 

Smashing Pumpkins: American Gothic

by Andrew Blackie

[8.Feb.08] :. Billy Corgan celebrates the beauty of an acoustic guitar after the big bang of Zeitgeist... to little effect

 

Smashing Pumpkins

by Greg M. Schwartz

[6.Aug.07] :. As Smashing Pumpkins prepare for the fourth night of their historic 12-show residency at rock’s most hallowed hall, questions abound. What will be the effect of its two new members, and can version 2.0 match the legendary intensity of the original?

 

Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist

by Mike Schiller

[9.Jul.07] :. What Zeitgeist is really about, what all Pumpkins albums are really about, is Billy Corgan.

 

Rocking the boat on rock band reunions

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[8.Jun.07] :. After the Smashing Pumpkins broke up at the end of 2001, leader Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin joined up with three other musicians to form Zwan, which lasted all of one album. Now the...