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Reverend Billy Corgan Z-One signature guitar
Reverend launches heavy-focused new Billy Corgan signature model, the Z-One

By Matt Parker Published

The latest guitar is designed to do the heavy lifting in the Smashing Pumpkins catalog

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Billy Corgan (left) and James Iha perform with Smashing Pumpkins at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996
"All we ever wanted to do in this band is kick people's ass": The Smashing Pumpkins on '80s Marshalls, epic guitar arrangements and their essential pedals

By Alan di Perna Published

In this 1995 GW interview, Billy Corgan and James Iha discuss the gear that powered their sprawling, double-disc masterpiece, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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Watch Billy Corgan pay tribute to his father with a set of Christmas songs at his Chicago tea shop

By Sam Roche Published

The Smashing Pumpkins leader delivers a rendition of Do You Hear What I Hear?, as well as two originals, Evergreen and The Magi and the Shiny Bright

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Billy Corgan set to sell over 100 pieces of gear used throughout his Smashing Pumpkins career in new Reverb Shop

By Matt Owen Published

Guitars, amps, preamps, synthesizers and more used on The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan albums and tours will be included in the online mega emporium

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[L-R] Jeff Schroeder and Billy Corgan
Jeff Schroeder offers update on new Smashing Pumpkins record: “It's a big, sprawling thing”

By Sam Roche Published

The album is reported to be a 33-track sequel to Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness and Machina/The Machines Of God

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Billy Corgan and Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen talks honing his technique, his imitators, and the origins of Eruption in this classic 1996 interview with Billy Corgan

By Billy Corgan Published

In this gem from the GW archives, the alt-rock titan talks guitar, the music industry and more with one of his heroes

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Jade Puget from A Fire Inside (also initialized as AFI) performing at a sold out show in Toronto.
AFI’s Jade Puget: "I do a lot of effects in-the-box, because there are infinite things you can do – you can create unique tones that have never been done before"

By Gregory Adams Published

The goth-punks' mercurial guitarist on shaping his guitar sound with plugins, writing with Billy Corgan, and how Peter Hook influenced the band's new album, Bodies

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[L-R] Eric “Shade” Balderose, Billy Corgan, Jami Morgan and Reba Meyers
Code Orange tease collaboration with The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan

By Sam Roche Published

Social media clues point to a partnership between the Pittsburgh metal heavyweights and Chicago alt-rock icon

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The Smashing Pumpkins to host 30th anniversary Gish livestream event

By Sam Roche Published

The Chicago alt-rockers are celebrating their rifftacular debut with a live vinyl listening party, fan Q&A and an “exclusive preview of unreleased music”

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Singer Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins during the 101 WKQX The Nights We Stole Christmas show at the Aragon Ballroom on November 30, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
Billy Corgan used a $25 Klon Centaur clone for his tones on the new Smashing Pumpkins album

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

The alt-rock icon shares his thoughts on boutique pedals, clones and plugins in new interview

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