Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:37AM - By Travis Woods
As is the case every March, Austin, Texas, has become the center of the musical universe for one week, as the South By Southwest (SXSW) festival attracts thousands of bands, bloggers, and industry bigwigs for several days of debauchery and tunes. And, as is the case every year, the ostensibly “indie” fest has thus far been more notable for the established artists who show up for surprise sets or impossible-to-get-into concerts. Below, we’ve amassed a roundup of the big-name-news that marked the fest thus far.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:37PM - By Laura Aguirre
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan thinks today’s young artists are a bunch of ‘posers’. Yesterday, during a one-on-one interview at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas, Corgan went on about the music business, saying it have been impossible for him to break into today’s record industry without setting himself on fire on YouTube.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:29AM - By Travis Woods
Because apparently only when bands reunite to play shoddy and substandard new material that in no way lives up to the music of their heyday should be lauded, Billy Corgan took to Twitter yesterday to do what he does best (since the thing he used to do best—writing great rock and pop songs—has long since faded into the either): bitch about things. In this case, reformed ‘90s alt-rock heroes Pavement.
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Friday, July 23, 2010 5:11PM - By Seraphina L.
Those how went to see Smashing Pumpkins play their show at Tampa’s Ritz Ybor on Wednesday night got an unexpected bit as part of the live performance. The only thing is… it wasn’t a bit. That spill leading man, Billy Corgan, took on stage was not part of the show and fans probably should have been more concerned than they were when it happened.
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Monday, May 10, 2010 12:01PM - By Travis Woods
When he’s not engaging in creepy/ New Age-y Twitter wars with Courtney Love concerning her daughter, recording a 44-song album, and maybe/ maybe not hooking up with Jessica Simpson (it’s a funny world we live in), Billy Corgan has been on the search for a new bass player for the Smashing Pumpkins. And, according to Consequence of Sound, he’s found one.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:14PM - By Travis Woods
Brace yourselves—it’s time for another round of aging ‘90s rock icons to grasp the very last and desperately tenuous shreds of just-barely pop-culture relevance: big black hole of dignity Courtney Love and “I’m-a-difficult-ass-therefore-I’m-an-artist” Billy Corgan are currently engaged in a slapfight on, of course, Twitter.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:16AM - By Seraphina L.
Current bassist of Smashing Pumpkins, Ginger Pooley, has announced her departure from the band as she is about to raise her new baby. With this news, Billy Corgan has also announced that in addition to looking for a new bassist he will also be holding auditions for a keyboardist. The audition process will be open again he hopes to find a musician in the same way he found drummer, Mike Byrne, who is also a fan of the band and requests that they can play in the prog-rock style of Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman.
Pooley is obviously putting her priorities in order but had these last words before leaving the band:
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:38AM - By Travis Woods
When looking up the word ‘subtlety” in the dictionary, one the very last things you’re likely to see next to the word’s definition is a picture of Billy Corgan’s big bald head. This is why his newest Smashing Pumpkins project, a 44-track album entitled Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (to be released as a series of 11 four-song EPs, so as to “hear the album as it’s being made,” according to the head Pumpkin) isn’t entirely surprising – of course someone like Corgan would deem a 44-song collection as nothing less than appropriate. We all loved Zeitgeist, right? And TheFutureEmbrace? And Zwan?
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:23PM - By Seraphina L.
Jessica Simpson and Billy Corgan is one of the oddest pairings we’ve heard of yet – maybe ever. Whether the two are romantically linked or not, that’s none of our business (although a source has supposedly told E! that Jessica was smitten). We’d like to focus on the idea of this musical collaboration. Is this really happening?
Rumors started to surface about the team-up when a photo of Simpson, Corgan and producer Kerry Brown appeared online. We were aware of Corgan knocking out the lengthy album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, as well as starting his own record label but is this studio collaboration for his album or – dare we even think it – Simpson’s album?
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