Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer review – mismatched 90s rockers bore and charm
On my radar
On my radar: Billy Corgan’s cultural highlights
April 2023
Billy Corgan, pro wrestlers and a medieval castle: inside Smashing Pumpkins’ weird gig for the ages
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman owns a pro-wrestling league – so of course the band is touring Australia with a troupe of wrestlers
November 2022
Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan: ‘I don’t want my kids growing up with a has-been father’
The rock singer talks about getting his band back on track, how having kids has made him grow up – and how he learned to stop playing the troll in interviews
January 2021
A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talent
Five years on from David Bowie’s death, bandmate Mike Garson leads an epic lineup, from Billy Corgan to Adam Lambert, in three hours of livestreamed sound and vision
November 2020
Smashing Pumpkins: Cyr review – infinite flatness
Three of the band’s original members drift back to the 80s with a synth-fuelled endurance test of an album
September 2020
Being invited into my son’s music appreciation group was the best Father’s Day present
Paul Mitchell
We started chatting about deep stuff, things we normally wouldn’t find a way to discuss
April 2019
Billy Corgan touring with Noel Gallagher: what could possibly go wrong?
The frontmen are on the road together, a co-headline tour following in the turbulent footsteps of Morrissey and Bowie
October 2018
Smashing Pumpkins review – it’s just me, myself and I
Smashing Pumpkins review – still miles ahead of their rivals
June 2018
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: Tove Lo, A$AP Rocky, Smashing Pumpkins
Tove Lo gets graphic, A$AP Rocky ropes in a grime elder statesman, and Billy Corgan returns with a squelch
March 2018
Infinite sadness: how to endure the longest albums of all time
Siamese nightmare: how sour grapes scuppered the Pumpkins' reunion
February 2018
Smashing Pumpkins announce first tour since 2000
After extensive teasers on social media, the mostly reformed band announced a 36-city reunion tour to kick off in summer 2018
November 2016
Billy Corgan loses lawsuit against TNA Wrestling
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and president of the wrestling promotion organisation’s parent company fails in attempt to gain legal ownership
October 2016
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan goes to war with his own wrestling company
The rock frontman is suing TNA Wrestling – despite the fact he’s the company’s president – with a restraining order filed against owner Dixie Carter
April 2016
Billy Corgan compares 'social justice warriors' to the KKK
Smashing Pumpkins frontman used his third appearance on radio host Alex Jones’s show to accuse Twitter activists of ‘tyranny’
December 2015
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox retracts Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan altercation claim
Cox, who claimed onstage that he was assaulted by Corgan and cornered by his bodyguard, has called his statements ‘stage banter’
October 2015
Music blog
Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 20 years on
Billy Corgan took a risk by demanding his band’s third record be a double-album, but it went on to become the last great alternative-rock record of the 90s
May 2015
The week in music: BB King's death, Blur's ice cream and more
Our weekly roundup, featuring the news of BB King’s death, Stephen Hawking’s Glastonbury debut and Kanye West’s PhD
