Fledgling blues rock guitarist/songwriter Lorelei Brewer says, "My main inspiration for doing music is not to play 'rockstar' or to get rich and famous. Hell no. I quote a friend, 'I wish money had nothing to do with it.' "
Billy Corgan and brothers Gabe and Jacques Baron are set to celebrate their wrestling company Resistance Pro's one-year anniversary and the Smashing Pumpkins front man and co-promoters are celebrating large.
As the cerebral leader of alternative rock titans the Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan sees no need to glamorize the lifestyle, priding himself on simply telling it like it is.
TOP 5 FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1. DC Week At Various Locations This massive, week-long series of events had over 10,000 attendees last year. Due to ...
Once Halloween is over, some people -- foolish people -- have no further use for fall's most important gourd. But how to dispose of them? This helpfu...
TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 1. Heartless Bastards At Black Cat The Austin, Texas four-piece plays rock and roll that's seeped in American tradit...
Bad news for Smashing Pumpkins fans: According to lead singer Billy Corgan, the band's stage clothes were stolen following a Wednesday night show in M...
It's not everyday Billy Corgan plays a carefully crafted, hand-picked acoustic set with just a few of his closest friends and fans surrounding him, all tucked into an intimate, meticulously decorated space that's nestled in Highland Park
Billy Corgan recently opened a 1930s Chinese-style tea house, raising eyebrows among the navel-gazing hipsters who are probably wondering if the famed Smashing Pumpkins frontman has committed a serious rock 'n' roll faux pas. He hasn't.
The new Pumpkins record is called Oceania, a 13-track album that's part of their grander 44-song work-in-progress Teargarden by Kaleidyscope.
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan might be at his most entertaining when he's starting little fires in the music press, but new comments by the ...
Wayne White is an artist who has likely made a huge impression on your life whether you know it or not. After being the cartoonist for The New York Ti...
In typical fashion, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan caused quite a stir at SXSW Monday night when he ranted about the staggering number of "po...
I like to use the Thanksgiving holiday as a golden opportunity to carbo-load in preparation for my second favorite holiday -- Black Friday.
Billy Corgan probably didn't have this in mind. Or maybe he did. In any case, filmmaker Devin Graham brings us -- just in time for Halloween -- th...
While in Chicago for am upcoming Smashing Pumpkins concert, front man Billy Corgan has been making the morning news show rounds to spread the word abo...
"A marriage made in hell" is what Billy Corgan calls this alternate take of the 1991 Smashing Pumpkins track, "Rhinoceros." The latest offering fro...
"My goal is always just to write about the real things that happen everyday. Frankly, most of those things are very sensational, but they're only made sensational by the fact that they're turned into songs."
You never know where Jim Carrey is going to turn up next these days -- this weekend, it was on stage at a bar in New York City singing the classic Sma...
If you listened to the radio during 1992 there's a chance you know the Smashing Pumpkins song "Drown" already. But you've probably never heard it like...
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan isn't just working on reissuing the band's back catalog and recording two new albums, Oceania and Teargarden b...
Today, Gerry Beckley tells the story behind his new album, Unfortunate Casino.
The pop is gone! For that matter so is the rap, r&b, stadium rock and all the other things that aren't "alternative". Alternative may not mean much ...
