Lineup for Bridge School Benefit announced.
The lineup has just been unveiled for the 2008 Bridge School Benefit concert, with school co-founder Neil Young introducing a bill that features Wilco, Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Sarah McLachlan and Death Cab for Cutie. Day one of the October 25-26 event at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, boasts performances from those artists plus Norah Jones. ZZ Top performs only on day one, while Smashing Pumpkins and Josh Groban perform only on day two. Neil Young, who hosts the annual, mostly-acous

Smashing Pumpkins announce 20th anniversary tour
Smashing Pumpkins are set to embark on a 20th Anniversary Tour, which will kick off a few days after they perform at the Neil Young Bridge School Benefit in California. The band will be playing a unique one-off set in every city and in the cities where they play two shows, fans who choose to go both nights will get different material – with one set called ‘Black Sunshine’ and the other ‘White Crosses’. The dates are: Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre (Bridge School Benefit) (Oc

Billy Corgan, vocalist and lead guitarist, The Smashing Pumpkins, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2009, before House Judic | Photo
'Billy Corgan, vocalist and lead guitarist, The Smashing Pumpkins, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2009, before House Judic' - photo on Yahoo! News UK.

Vintage Video: Nirvana & Smashing Pumpkins In ‘Crisco Twister’
Back in ‘91, before all the glitz and graphics and manipulatively salacious voiceovers, all we had at MTV were great bands, board games and a huge amount of lard. That’s no clever wordplay. I literally mean that we had a ton of Crisco on hand. Or so it would seem from the very lo-fi production below, in which Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic strips down to briefs and gets a full body Crisco massage from Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl , before playing slippery Twister with ...

Ian Brown, The Stone Roses: Stone Roses reunion in the works for 2009
Here's a reunion that actually makes some sense: the Stone Roses, a Madchester holdout and one of the touchstone bands of the early 90s rave scene, are nearing a reunion in honor of the 20th anniversary of their classic self-titled debut. For those keeping score at home, that means The Stone Roses came out a year after The Smashing Pumpkins formed. Crazy, no?   But the band who lost face time to the Happy Mondays in 24 Hour Party People has initiated reunion talks. Bassist Mani started the

Breaking: Taylor Hanson's new band, Tinted Windows, signs to S-Curve
Fans of great power pop can rejoice. A number of top purveyors of the genre are coming together to form a pop "super group" of sorts and Hitfix has exclusive details about recording plans. Tinted Windows is Hanson vocalist Taylor Hanson, Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, former Smashing Pumpkins' guitarist James Iha and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos. Billboard had the news of the group's formation  but Hitfix is breaking that the foursome has signed with

Billy Corgan Finally Licenses "Today" (Feat. Morgan Freeman)
Man, Morgan Freeman's voice. It can lend dignity to anything! Anything but the Smashing Pumpkins, who have none, and are not interested of getting any back. Still when I first heard this Visa commercial during American Idol a few nights ago (I was just flipping through, promise kids), I had the momentarily shocked face. But by the time I saw it again, on 30 Rock last night, it sort of made sense. Because lately he's been acting like the songs of his past no longer mean anything to him, and it...

SMASHING PUMPKINS: 'If All Goes Wrong' DVD Due In November
Coming Home Media will release "If All Goes Wrong", a double DVD commemorative package celebrating the recent reunion and extraordinary 20-year career of The Smashing Pumpkins, one of rock's defining and most acclaimed bands, on November 11. Directed and produced by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, METALLICA, Steve Miller Band, GODSMACK) and Daniel E Catullo III (Steve Miller Band, GODSMACK, RUSH, Dave Matthews Band), the two-DVD set contains the 105-minute documentary, also titled "If All Goes Wrong", plu

Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin on THE HOUR - video now online!
Check out Billy and Jimmy's recently aired interview on CBC's THE HOUR by checking out this post on SmashingPumpkins.com

The Smashing Pumpkins' "Tarantula" Video Gets A Wrestling Remix
Earlier this year "Doomsday Clock" was nabbed by ROH Wrestling as the background music for one of the league's compilation videos, and The Smashing Pumpkins just keep on picking up fans in wrestling where they lost them in independent record stores. What we have here is a "remix" of the "Tarantula" video, by the testosterone lovers behind TNA Wrestling. At first glance it's pretty impressive that they're able to put their logo behind Corgan and crew and make it shake and rumble, but then I remem

Courtney Love Provides A Reminder Of Afternoon Delights Past [Now That's What I Called Indie]
In an even-ramblier-than-usual Courtney Love blog entry—topics include joining a Lilac Society branch in Pasadena long ago and collaborating with ex-Hole bassist/nautically minded rock lady Melissa Auf der Maur in the immediate future—the VMA-skipping widow Cobain talks about how certain songs in the early '90s "pissed me off and fucked me up and made me a competitive little shit." Perhaps taking a cue from her stream-of-consciousness ways, I got completely sidetracked by her mention of Smashing

Idolator's Tribute-Video Treasury Can't Quit You [Objects Of Affection]
At their best, tribute videos—like trailers—are about emotional manipulation. Through a combination of music and carefully selected clips, they twist your senses until you're almost convinced that you actually care about ER characters or even evil sharks. Given that, it's no surprise that there's a bounty of Brokeback Mountain videos that employ aggressive emotional exploitation tactics. Two of these tributes stand above the rest. In a bout of tragic genius someone—with a fondness for anim

SMASHING PUMPKINS: Second 'If All Goes Wrong' Video Postcard Available
The second in a series of video postcards featuring segments of the upcoming "If All Goes Wrong" double DVD commemorative package celebrating the recent reunion and extraordinary 20-year career of The Smashing Pumpkins can be viewed below. Due on November 11 via Coming Home Media, the two-DVD set was directed and produced by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, METALLICA, Steve Miller Band, GODSMACK) and Daniel E Catullo III (Steve Miller Band, GODSMACK, RUSH, Dave Matthews Band) and contains the 105-minute docu

Killers, Elton John Get Jolly Together + More
Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Spinner.com: The Killers and Elton John are teaming for a Christmas single, tentatively titled 'Joseph, Better You Than Me.' The song is due in December.Smashing Pumpkins kick off a North American tour on October 26 in Mountain View, California. Mogwai drummer... Read more

Smashing Pumpkins: Smashing Pumpkins Say Their Fans Hate Them on Chris Issak Show
Chris Isaak, he of "Wicked Game" fame, apparently has a new show about to start airing on Biography Channel (the first episode airs tonight), and it'll feature live performances and interviews with artists like Trisha Yearwood, Michael Buble, and a band you might care about, the Smashing Pumpkins. There's a teaser trailer for the episode here, and during it Billy talks down his fans:ChrisIsaak: "Your fans... They're not just fans, they're really intense."Billy Corgan:"Yeah, they really don't...

pop nosh: suri cruise barefoot in NYC's rain
† isn't NYC cold right now? Suri Cruise needs to wear shoes or at least socks! celebrity baby scoop † i wonder if Gwyneth Paltrow's rumored boob job can help save her marriage? the blemish † Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson claim they got offer$ for bronx's baby pictures bitten & bound † so who turned out to be the hottest bitch at last night's 'marley & me' premiere? dlisted † 'private practice' star Kate Walsh's short 15-month marriage is coming to an end cele|bitchy &d

Despite All His Rage, Billy Corgan Is Just A Rat In A Cage.
Sorry for the gimmicky title, Billy, but, you gotta admit, that was one hell of a tune. So, why are you so irritated that fans want to hear it at a concert? They plunk down the money to watch The Smashing Pumpkins, and that money isn’t so easy to come by in a recession. Now, you’re pissed that your audience is pissed, and instead of trying to figure out why your fans, who have supported you for many years, might reasonably feel that way, throwing a Piscean tantrum: Smashing Pumpkins

WILLED INTO EXISTENCE: Super Smashing Pumpkins Bros.
From the same people who brought us the amazing 8-Bit Dark Knight (and by "people" I mean "the internet magically willing things to exist") comes this even more bizarre yet no less ridiculous Nintendo-ized re-imagining of the Smashing Pumpkins inside the Mario Bros. trilogy (Ed. Note - Fiiiiiiiinally!) The video's cool and all, but it's painful to remember back when Mario, Luigi and the Princess all defeated Bowser then went their separate ways cause Mario became so intolerable, then he...

DVD chronicles new music from Smashing Pumpkins reunion
Fans will get a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the Smashing Pumpkins reunion on the mammoth DVD ‘‘If all Goes Wrong,’’ due Nov. 11. A documentary of the same name chronicles the Pumpkins’ residencies in Asheville, N.C., and San Francisco in the summer of 2007 — the Billy Corgan-led band’s first shows in seven years.

Smashing Pumpkins VISA Commercial (Billy gets paid)
$,$$$,$$$.$$"Last year, I was offered heavy, heavy money to license ["Today"]. I actually turned down two huge, huge, seven-figure-plus deals ...

Is This Man the Hipster Runoff Guy?
The true identity of Carles, the mysterious author of the satirical Hipster Runoff blog, has been a subject of speculation for some time now, but according to a theory by the Smashing Pumpkins–centric blog Hipsters United, Carles might be Brooklyn author Tao Lin (who was interviewed by New York's Sam Anderson last month). There's no real smoking-gun evidence, but they do make an interesting case noting the writers' stylistic similarities and thematic obsessions, as well as their...

SMASHING PUMPKINS DVD To Play In Theatres
The Pulse of Radio reports that the upcoming SMASHING PUMPKINS 20th anniversary documentary, "If It All Goes Wrong", will get a one-night screening in theatres on November 6 before arriving on DVD five days later on November 11. According to Entertainment Weekly, 40 movie theatres around the country will show the 105-minute film, although a list of cities and theatres has yet to be revealed. The documentary explores the reactivation of the group and its two multiple-night residencies in the summer of 2007 a

Fan-made Blu-Ray of July 28th, 2007 at the Fillmore to be made available
From Jan 2009 to the end of Feb 2009 you can take advantage of receiving an audience video recording of The Smashing Pumpkins show record on July 28th 2007. The audio is a soundboard and audience mix put together by SPFC.org creator Eric Agnew.All you have to do is purchases two blank 25GB Blu-Ray disc and ship them to user MonteLDS along with return postage.See the post on SP.com by clicking here

New Alice In Chains Album Due in 2009
AiC will be in the studio in October recording the new album, to be released in 2009. Fingernails are no doubt being gnawed asunder in anticipation. How will it sound? Will they pull a Smashing Pumpkins and try too hard on the comeback, creating a big pile of over-muscled audio dung? Or will their groove stay sweet and smooth?