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Kiki Wong and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Fenway Park
Billy Corgan announces new solo project featuring Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Kiki Wong

By Janelle Borg Published

The tour, titled A Return to Zero, promises to be a career celebration – with a setlist that draws from seminal Pumpkins albums – and kicks off this summer

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Ric Ocasek (left) and Billy Corgan perform live in the mid-2000s
How Ric Ocasek formed an unlikely partnership with an alt-rock icon

By Jackson Maxwell Published

For what would become his fifth solo album, Ocasek reached out to Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan, and came away impressed by his arranging talents and technical abilities

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Billy Corgan and Eddie Van Halen
Bill Corgan on the time Eddie Van Halen asked him to play guitar – during a Guitar World interview

By Janelle Borg Published

Turns out EVH was impressed by the Smashing Pumpkins frontman's guitar skills

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Billy Corgan of the band The Smashing Pumpkins performs during a concert as part of 'The World Is A Vampire Tour' at Coliseo General Ruminahui on November 12, 2024 in Quito, Ecuador
Billy Corgan names himself and two other ’90s guitar gods as the ‘metal Yardbirds’

By Matt Owen Published

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman shared near-identical early experiences with two other players close to his local area, but they all ended up going down different avenues – not unlike the Yardbird legends

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(L-R) Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Clufetos, and Tony Iommi perform onstage as Black Sabbath on "The End Tour" at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on August 17, 2016 in Wantagh, New York
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final show will play host to a Tool, Rage Against the Machine and Smashing Pumpkins supergroup

By Janelle Borg Published

The July 5 mega-event's lineup is stacked with top-tier names, including Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira and Alice in Chains

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Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley interrupted the band when he auditioned for Kiss – and Gene Simmons was ready to throw fists

By Phil Weller Published

Although the guitarist eventually aced his audition, his relationship with Simmons and the rest of the band got off to a rather rocky start

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Flames from the Palisades Fire burn a building on Sunset Boulevard amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Palisades Fire has grown to over 15,000 acres and 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate while a second major fire continues to burn near Eaton Canyon in Altadena
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and Primus guitarist Larry ‘Ler’ LaLonde among thousands who have lost homes in L.A. wildfires

By Janelle Borg Published

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and Anthrax’s Scott Ian share their first-hand experience of the devastating impact of one of the biggest natural disasters in Los Angeles’ history

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Billy Corgan and James Hetfield
Billy Corgan reckons this Metallica track sounds suspiciously similar to a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut

By Phil Weller Published

Corgan says Hetfield has “written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs” of all time, but one cut from 1997 sounds awfully familiar...

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Eddie Van Halen (left) and Billy Corgan
Eddie Van Halen on the time Billy Corgan played through his rig – and why his setup shocked the Smashing Pumpkins frontman

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Finding EVH's rig almost impossible to wrangle, Corgan figured, mistakenly, that there was something he could quickly disable to tame it

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From left, Kiki Wong, Billy Corgan and Jack Bates of The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Fenway Park
Kiki Wong on how playing with Smashing Pumpkins has made her a better guitar player

By Phil Weller Published

From bedroom riffing with a Line 6 Spider to playing through tube amps in stadiums, Wong says her time in the band has opened her eyes to a whole new world of tone

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