Photos by Kristin Burns Looking at the stark economic challenges currently facing the music business, most people would think twice before launching a record label in 2010. Most people, however, are not Billy Corgan. L.A. ...
UPDATE: Billy Corgan has Tweeted, "Unless God signed the papers for me, I don't remember settling any lawsuits. But God bless whoever thinks I have." Last year, the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records, twice. First, they sued their old label ...
The combination of David Lynch and latter-day Billy Corgan should produce something weird enough to explode your eyeballs. But when DLF.TV, Lynch's new transcendental meditation-promoting website (or, per the website, the "new Online TV ...
For someone who hasn't released an album in a couple years, Billy Corgan sure shows up in our news feed a lot. But when a canonical 90s alt-rock figure fills his time up with doll wrestling, human wrestling, dissing haters, and ...
So: You're a famous rock star with a devoted fanbase and a few classics under your belt. What do you do with your Friday night? If you answered "control a doll version of myself as it wrestles dolls that look like other rock stars", you're probably ...
-- On November 8, the Backwards Clock Society, a band that pairs Billy Corgan with various garage and psych vets, will play the Echoplex in Los Angeles. It's a benefit show for Laura Masura, the former Smashing Pumpkins fan club head who was ...
Billy Corgan photo by Matt ZieglerIf you ever dreamed about listening to Billy Corgan expound upon his thoughts about free-thinking psychologist/philosopher Carl Jung, your time is now. Corgan is one of the many creative types-- including David Byrne, ...
Photo by Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan gets a lot of shit around here for his new-age shenanigans and questionable self-promotion tactics, but he is something of an innovator when it comes to the online marketplace. Way before Radiohead's In Rainbows and Nine Inch Nails' The Slip was the Smashing Pumpkins' Machina ...
Billy Corgan might have a lot going on with this new re-rebooted Smashing Pumpkins, but that's not going to stop the man from tapping into his spiritual side. As the Pumpkins' website reports, Corgan has launched a new website called Everything From Here to There. From the looks of things, ...
Recently deceased psych rocker Sky Saxon of the Seeds wasn't just an influence on Billy Corgan; the two were buddies and even casual musical collaborators. So Corgan's presence at last Friday's Saxon tribute at L.A.'s ...
Whether you think the "real" Smashing Pumpkins died after drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was fired in 1996 or when D'arcy left in 1999 or when they broke up in 2000 or when Chamberlin left earlier this year, it's pretty clear the Smashing Pumpkins you grew up ...