This week Adam Levine announced the official release date for his fragrance ’222 by Adam Levine’ (note: Levine once said that this act was ‘punishable by death’); Justin Bieber might be facing a lawsuit for a Twitter prank he did earlier this month; and The Temper Trap announced their North American tour kick off date and place. All that and more below.

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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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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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The 90s gave us some of the purest rock music ever, and it’s a testament to the quality of those bands that they were able to record dozens of solid albums and still have plenty of great rare material lying around. What follows is a list of some of the best B-sides, rarities, obscure tracks, and special releases from eight definitive 90s rock bands. Enjoy the flashback.

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Closing out the 2010 version of the Sunset Strip Music Festival was none other than the Chicago group known as The Smashing Pumpkins. With all the hair and dirty rock that came out of the 80s and 90s strip, the Pumpkins was the perfect way to end this 3 day fest. Just like the faces of the strip changing, all the faces of the band (sans the bald headed front man) have been changed with younger, fresher players looking for their time in the lime light. Would the new members be able to replicate the sound many had fallen in love with some twenty years ago? Simply put, yes.

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Today is the big day when West Hollywood will shut down parts of Sunset Boulevard for their beloved Sunset Strip Music Festival and you shouldn’t even have had to ask if we are going to be there to cover it. Even though we just wrapped up Sunset Junction last weekend, we’re ready to take on some more local acts as well as bigger names.

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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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Record Store Day is fast approaching, and fans visiting local independent record stores on April 17 will have an opportunity to pre-order the new, limited edition EP by The Smashing Pumpkins, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol 1: Songs For A Sailor.

The pre-order is exclusive to independent record stores; the official release for Teargarden… is May 25th via Martha’s Music / Rocket Science Ventures.

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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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