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Video: Smashing Pumpkins Cover David Bowie's "Space Oddity"

Posted 05/16/2013 at 11:29am | by Damian Fanelli

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Below, check out a video of Smashing Pumpkins performing David Bowie’s "Space Oddity" on an Austin rooftop during this year's SXSW. The performance was filmed for The Guitar Center Sessions, which will air 9 p.m. EST May 17 on DirecTV's Audience Network.

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Smashing Pumpkins Announce 2013 World Tour

Posted 03/12/2013 at 4:31pm | by Melanie Gottshall

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Smashing Pumpkins have announced a world tour that kicks off March 23 and runs through August 11. Billy Corgan and company will visit the US, Europe, the UK, Japan and Mexico. The band — Corgan, guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino — will perform songs from their entire catalog, including their 2012 album, Oceania.

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Smashing Furniture: Billy Corgan Stars in TV Commercial for His Wrestling Company

Posted 02/20/2013 at 4:42pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has found a way to push his new wrestling company — Resistance Pro — and Walter E. Smithe furniture in a bizarre new local-TV commercial.

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Excerpt: The Making of the Smashing Pumpkins' 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

Posted 01/08/2013 at 12:35pm | by Alan Di Perna

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Internal tensions, while always present, began to undermine the Pumpkins not long after Mellon Collie’s release. Neither the original quartet of Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D’arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin nor subsequent lineups ever achieved the same level of guitar-drenched grandeur, although Corgan and the most recent Pumpkins ensemble go a long way in that direction on their current tour, for Oceania, their latest album.

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From the Archive: Billy Corgan Interviews Eddie Van Halen in 1996

Posted 11/02/2012 at 12:37pm | by Billy Corgan

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Make no mistake. Eddie Van Halen can still kick your ass. The man who single-handedly changed the face of rock is still mean, lean and sharp as a tack. And if you dispute the ownership of the crown, try to imagine a world without him. I came to pay my tribute, sneak a peak at that famous Marshall and meet the man I most wanted to be at 17.

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Billy Corgan Says Soundgarden, Pavement Reunited "Only to Make Money"

Posted 08/17/2012 at 10:40am | by Josh Hart

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Ever the provocateur, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has caused quite a stir with some recent comments regarding the reasons behind the recent Soundgarden and Pavement reunions.

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Smashing Pumpkins’ 'Pisces Iscariot' to Be Reissued July 17

Posted 07/02/2012 at 5:09pm | by Jack Mullin

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EMI will reissue The Smashing Pumpkins' Pisces Iscariot album July 17 in North America and July 16 internationally. The album, which was released in 1994, reached No. 4 on Billboard Top 200 albums chart.

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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan "Pisses On" Radiohead, Praises Ritchie Blackmore

Posted 06/13/2012 at 10:40am | by Damian Fanelli

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Billy Corgan, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman, decided to lay into Radiohead during a recent interview with Antiquiet.

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Guitar Geek U.S.A.: The Elements of Tone

Posted 06/11/2012 at 11:42am | by Billy Corgan

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Your tone has a lot to do with how people react to your playing and to your music as a whole. It is as important as the quality of a singer's voice or the accent with which he or she delivers a particular lyric. Many guitarists fail to realize that every aspect of the equipment they use affects their sound, and therefore how they are perceived as an artist. The type of guitar — the wood it's made of, whether it has a rosewood or maple fretboard--the amp, the strings, the pick, the pickups, the effects and the length of your cord all play important roles.

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The Almighty Riff: Suggestions for Stimulating Musical Creativity

Posted 04/07/2012 at 12:25pm | by Billy Corgan

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Every great rock song has a great riff, be it a single-note melody or a chordal-based sequence, and that's probably what makes it a great song. Like a great frontman, a really good rock riff should have a hypnotic, star quality. A great riff can take you over; you might find yourself playing it repeatedly for ten minutes. There's something about it that makes you want to indulge in it.

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Smashing Pumpkins

Video: Smashing Pumpkins Cover David Bowie's "Space Oddity"

Smashing Pumpkins Announce 2013 World Tour

Smashing Furniture: Billy Corgan Stars in TV Commercial for His Wrestling Company

Excerpt: The Making of the Smashing Pumpkins' 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

From the Archive: Billy Corgan Interviews Eddie Van Halen in 1996

Billy Corgan Says Soundgarden, Pavement Reunited "Only to Make Money"

Smashing Pumpkins’ 'Pisces Iscariot' to Be Reissued July 17

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan "Pisses On" Radiohead, Praises Ritchie Blackmore

Guitar Geek U.S.A.: The Elements of Tone

The Almighty Riff: Suggestions for Stimulating Musical Creativity

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