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Smashing Pumpkins | Gish/Siamese Dream

Billy Corgan's zeitgeist whine, so omnipresent via high-charting Siamese Dream tracks "Today" and "Disarm," was the true sound of the alterna-'90s.
Capitol (2011)
By ZETH LUNDY | December 02, 2011

[download] Smashing Pumpkins, September 1991 @ Axis, WFNX 8th anniversary party

The remarkable vault of DUANE BRUCE strikes again. Yesterday the former WFNX DJ unearthed Nirvana's 1990 gig at ManRay in Cambridge, and today he comes...
By Michael Marotta | November 03, 2011

Billy Corgan dishes on the 20th anniversary of Gish — one smashing debut record

The saturation of album anniversary celebrations has gotten out of hand in recent years.
Tales from the Pumpkin patch
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | October 21, 2011

The night before Nevermind: Bullet LaVolta's drummer on opening for Nirvana in Boston on September 23, 1991

Nirvana, Live at WFNX's 8th Birthday Party, September 23, 1991, at Axis, BostonEDITOR'S NOTE: It was no accident that, the night before Nevermind came out...
By Todd A. Philips | September 22, 2011

[wfnx chatter] Bad Rabbits cover Smashing Pumpkins' "1979"

It seems every time BAD RABBITS -- up for three Best Music Poll awards; voting ends Thursday, kids -- post another video/download in their Live...
By Michael Marotta | May 09, 2011

Bullet with Butter-face Wings: D'Arcy Wretzky (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) arrested

TMZ with the deets today on the arrest of former SMASHING PUMPKINS bassist D'arcy Wretzky. While the whole charade -- something about letting horses roam...
By Michael Marotta | February 10, 2011

The Big Hurt: Corgan vs. Malkmus: 15-year grudge

As a child of the '90s, I sure find it heartwarming to see a classic feud of my youth re-form for a big festival appearance.
Feud reunions
By DAVID THORPE | November 26, 2010

Interview: Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur describes herself as "a good Boston Irish girl," born on St. Patrick's Day in 1972.
On her new CD and movie — and Billy, Courtney, and Danzig
By JON GARELICK | October 15, 2010

The Absolut Top 101 WFNX Artists of All Time #15 - Smashing Pumpkins

Chicago, 1988. That’s where a weird kid named Billy Corgan bumped into James Iha in a record store. They two began performing around...
By MorningIntern | August 13, 2010

Passion Pit cover - Billy Corgan approves!

Billy Corgan has spoken -- well, Tweeted -- and earlier today gave the all-important seal of approval for Passion Pit's sparkling synthpop waterfall cover of...
By Michael Marotta | June 25, 2010

The Big Hurt: Now hiring

If you're a musician looking to break into the big leagues, now's your chance.
Music news in brief
By DAVID THORPE | March 19, 2010

Excerpt: Evening’s Empire by BIll Flanagan

In this chapter, "The Drugs Don't Work," aging rock star Emerson Cutler and his manager, Jack Flynn, are seeking inspiration — and desperately trying to jumpstart his career.
An excerpt from Bill Flanagan’s new novel, Evening’s Empire , the true story of a band that never existed
By BILL FLANAGAN | February 05, 2010

New Smashing Pumpkins Song

There's a new Smashing Pumpkins song. It's 6 minutes long and kind of odd. Download it free here.
By Charlie | December 08, 2009

Burrito, Investigates, Maura, MRTPQ, Memory and WTF

Info Burrito, Sandbox Investigates, Maura Johnston, MRTPQ, Memory Game and WTF all in todays Sandbox Podcast! Listen here! Put us on your iPod.
By Charlie | September 17, 2009

Pop Trash, Maura Johnston and WTF

There's Pop Trash, Maura Johnston, the Qdoba Mega Robo Thunder Phone Query, the WTF Line and Bill Corgan in today's The Sandbox Podcast! Listen...
By Charlie | July 16, 2009

Hit the deck

It's not that Celebration were ever a bad fit for 4AD. The echo-chamber organs, the tribal drumming, and the caterwauling vocals of Katrina Ford added up to a kind of desert-peyote and fringed-suede-jacket version of the more twisted stuff in the label'
Celebration's future is in the cards
By MATT PARISH | May 08, 2009

The Big Hurt: Crashing Pumpkins

I recently had the "was that real, or did I dream that?" feeling about the upcoming Spider-Man musical featuring songs by U2, and I happily concluded that it was a dream.
Plus Lynched Beatles, and a misleading Baby
By DAVID THORPE | April 17, 2009

25. Billy Corgan

The snarl-toothed, light-bulb-headed Corgan has always been one of rock music's uglier characters. So now that he pouted through the roundly-panned Smashing Pumpkins reunion tour and came out in inexplicable favor of the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger,
The snarl-toothed, light-bulb-headed Corgan has always been one of rock music's uglier characters. So now that he pouted through the roundly-panned Smashing Pumpkins reunion tour and came out in inexplicable favor of the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger, we couldn't avoid putting him high up.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 26, 2009

Hot Box experiment on themselves

We’ll get to Stolzenberg’s band in a minute; right now I’m engrossed in her PhD work at Boston College.
Lab Rats
By MATT PARISH | March 23, 2009

Fast-breaking music

WFNX has always been a maverick radio station.
You heard it here first
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 01, 2008

Billy, Don't Be a Hero

The second of a two-night stand in Boston, with no overlap from the previous night, the Saturday show started off with a few of Corgan's better-known tunes only to drift off into la-la land at around the halfway point.
Smashing Pumpkins at the Wang Theatre, November 15, 2008
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 18, 2008

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