Billy Corgan Clarifies Smashing Pumpkins Break Up Rumors
Smashing Pumpkins main-man Billy Corgan explains an ominous statement he made last week about the band's fate being tied to the success of their new album 'Oceania'.
Smashing Pumpkins main-man Billy Corgan explains an ominous statement he made last week about the band's fate being tied to the success of their new album 'Oceania'.
The Smashing Pumpkins have finally finished work on 'Oceania' and settled on the final tracklist for the project that will be available this November.
While finishing up the album within an album, 'Oceania', Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan gives a progress report as well as his advice fellow Second City rockers Madina Lake.
Actor/Comedian Jim Carrey jumped on a stage the other night to do a cover of perhaps the best-known Smashing Pumpkins tune -- 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings'. Let's just say it's a good thing he is funny.
Billy Corgan is quickly becoming the mayor of free music town. Over the past two years Smashing Pumpkins have released all of their new songs for free, and now they look to expand that program to rare demos and back-catalog material with the Smashing Pumpkins Record Club.
Smashing Pumpkins have been working on an epic 44 song project called 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope' and the latest offshoot of that is the album 'Oceania'. Though it's not due until early next year, Billy Corgan announced the band will tour this fall and his involvement with a new wrestling company.
Everyone over the age of thirty remembers the terribly cheesy 1980's Kevin Bacon film 'Footloose' and the god-awful Kenny Loggins theme song that came with it. The remake is due to hit theaters this October and for some reason the soundtrack features a Smashing Pumpkins tune about LSD.
The Smashing Pumpkins have been a complicated act to explain over the past few years. There's the lack of original members, 44 song album 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope', and the new album within that album; Oceania. Now comes the difficult task of explaining their new video centered on the world of women's wrestling and their 'Oceania' promo starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...what?
A lot of big things happened this week in the realm of the Banana . In case you missed the lastest on Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, QOTSA helping the Aqua Teen Hunger Force re-launch the show, Incubus' new video, Pearl Jam's movie, Beastie Boys' movie, Smashing Pumpkins' new album, Alter Bridge, Slayer, The Big 4 and more...follow the link.
Billy Corgan has been releasing a song at a time via their website as part of a 44 song project called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Two years and 10 songs later he has decided to release a 10 song album titled Oceania and re-release their classic albums.
D'arcy Wretzky was arrested in Michigan Tuesday for a unpaid ticket that eventually ended up in a bench warrant for her arrest.