• Smashing Pumpkins's Next Album May Be Their Last: Billy Corgan Is 'Over Rock 'N' Roll'

    Billy Corgan might think that The Smashing Pumpkins are a better band than Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters — and he is right, by the way — but the Pumpkins might not even be around much longer. According to a recent interview with "The Wall Street Journal," Corgan hinted that the next Smashing Pumpkins album, "Day for Night," could well be the last."The next album is like the end, end, end," Corgan says when discussing his "psychic impression of the future" in terms of new Pumpkins albums. "The trite way to say it is I'm over rock 'n' roll. Which is strange because rock 'n' roll is getting back into me."If Corgan were to end the Smashing Pumpkins after the next album, it would not be the first time the band — "project" is a more appropriate word at this point — has fallen apart. The Pumpkins initially split in 2000, but reunited in 2006, though guitarist James Iha and bassist D'arcy Wretzky chose not to participate. Corgan is currently the sole original member of the band and the only official member at the moment other than rhythm guitarist Jeff Schroeder.

  • Billy Corgan Trash Talks Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters on 'Howard Stern' [LISTEN]

    Billy Corgan's opinion of himself and Smashing Pumpkins has rarely been anything less than stellar, and during his appearance on The Howard Stern Show this morning (Dec. 9), he made it very obvious how much better he thinks the Pumpkins are than their '90s alt-rock peers. Expanding upon his recent statements that he and Kurt Cobain were their generation's "top two scribes," Corgan dissed the songwriting of two rock titans: Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters.

  • Billy Corgan Opening Temporary Tea Shop In Led Zeppelin's 'Physical Graffiti' Building

    Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins are giving fans a chance to pick up their new album, Monuments to an Elegy, one day early. This being Corgan, a simple online ordering setup will not suffice. Instead, he's opted to open a one-day, pop-up music shop in New York to push the album. The shop will be located inside Physical GraffiTea, an NYC tea purveyor that's on the bottom floor of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti building.

  • Billy Corgan Talks Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: "He Really Was That Talented"

    Billy Corgan is one of the oddest survivors of the grunge era — too much of a black sheep to fit snugly into the '90s revival circuit, yet earnest enough to still try and make music people will like. He recently spent much of an interview talking about former rival, Kurt Cobain.

  • Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan Making "F--k You Anderson Cooper" Cat T-Shirts

    The feud between Anderson Cooper and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a new and humorous spin on it. Anderson Cooper fired the first volley when he decided to put Billy Corgan on his "Ridiculist" in October after Billy Corgan posed on the front of PAWS Chicago Magazine holding 2 black cats. The magazine is the print publication for the no-kill shelter PAWS Chicago. Billy Corgan fired back with some tweets and now has manufactured some T-shirts featuring cats in bow ties that say prominently "F-k You Anderson Cooper."

  • Billy Corgan Fired Smashing Pumpkins Drummer For Being A "Twitch" With "ADD"

    Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a notoriously strained relationship with the people he's played music with, so it came as no surprise when he fired drummer Mike Byrne back in June. Though the reasons for Byrne's dismissal weren't made entirely clear at the time, Corgan discusses his decision in a lengthy (and occasionally confusing) blog post made to the Smashing Pumpkins' website, in which he blames the 24-year-old Byrne for holding up the recording of the band's upcoming albums, calling him a "twitch" with "ADD."

  • Smashing Pumpkins Share New Single 'One and All' from Upcoming Album 'Monuments to an Elegy' [LISTEN]

    In anticipation of their upcoming album "Monuments to an Elegy," The Smashing Pumpkins have shared another new single, titled "One and All," which you can check out below. Fans of the Pumpkins will not be disappointed, as the song has a darkly metallic quality reminiscent of their 1995 opus "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.""I basically sang the whole song the first time I wrote it," frontman Billy Corgan told "The Huffington Post" about "One and All." "It had written itself."
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