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Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1998
BILLY CORGAN certainly had his work cut out for him after 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. ...
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Smashing Pumpkins: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 26 January 2000
Heavy on the '70s metal ...
The Smashing Pumpkins: American Gothic
Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, December 1996
The music of the Smashing Pumpkins has brought the dark night of the soul to the wide open spaces of Americas arenas and radio waves. ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, December 1995
ADORE OR despise Billy Corgan's unmistakable musical shitstorm of hubris and angst and he is a walking ammunition stockpile for both positions it ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Dominion Theatre, London Saturday,
Live Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 5 February 2000
Billy Corgan said rock was dead. Now the Pumpkins have dug up the corpse. ...
The Smashing Pumpkins: From Genesis to Revelation
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Select, July 1998
The Smashing Pumpkins have built themselves a truly biblical myth. Now, Select offers them the chance to rip it up. Result? A 15-point fandango starring ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Pumpkin Iron
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
SMASHING PUMPKINS look set to continue the trail-blazing guitar magic first pioneered by Jane's Addiction. CATHI UNSWORTH discovers why the Chicago-based band think Prince should ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Cardiff University
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993
BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Manchester Apollo
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 2 November 2000
FINAL FLING for the painful Pumpkins. ...
Local Geek Makes Good: Smashing Pumpkins
Profile and Interview by Dave Thompson, Creem, January 1994
YOU MADE IT, THEN? You didn't kill yourself on the way? ...
Various Artists: Lollapalooza '94, Sam Boyd Stadium University of Nevada Las Vegas July 1,1994
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1994
THE DIFFERENCE between Lollapalooza 1994 and Lollapolooza Past is that this year Perry Farrell and colleagues decided the music being offered couldn't just be loud, ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Adore (Virgin)
Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 27 May 1998
TRUE, BILLY Corgan has removed most of the guitars, the pounding, the rat-in-a-cage rage from Smashing Pumpkins' new album. But don't worry: he remains stupendously ...
Smashing Pumpkins: The Metro, Chicago
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 4 September 1993
GRUNGE LITE? ...
Life After Gish: Smashing Pumpkins Play Their Generation's Blues
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, BigO, December 1993
SO THIS IS Generation X, I'm musing to myself in the lobby of the Hollywood Palladium, as I contemplate the horde of kids who have ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
Live Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 April 1994
GIVEN Smashing Pumpkins' penchant for cheesy psychedelic touches to decorate their end-of-the-world sonics, the red-hot rockers seemed the perfect act to star at the gala ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (Reissue)
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 6 December 2011
FOR ALL its resonance amongst the youth of the day, the voice of grunge was old before its time and world-weary. Although their chagrin and ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, November 2001
Song title: 'Today'Artist: Smashing PumpkinsLabel: Virgin ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Smells Like Halloween Spirit
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 February 1992
With Nirvana a copper-bottomed rock phenomenon, the race is on to discover the Next Big Thing amongst America's 'alternative rock' ranks. Despite an acclaimed album ...
It's The 'Looza Baby, Why Don't You Kill It?
Report by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 30 July 1994
LOLLAPALOOZA once had the chance to be the greatest rock'n'roll circus the planet had ever seen. But, in spite of the live spectacle of VERVE, ...
David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cardigans: The White Room
Report and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Q, March 1996
"THE BEST THING was when we had Tora Tora, or The Artist Formerly Known As Prince," says Chris Cowey, the noticeably effusive producer of The ...
Smashing Pumpkins' Sudden Impact
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1993
BILLY CORGAN is laughing and slapping his knee. ...
Artist of the Year: Smashing Pumpkins
Report and Interview by Michael Azerrad, Spin, December 1994
Far Billy Corgan and his band, 1994 was both flush with success and filled, as Michael Azerrad learns, with fear and loathing ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Exploring The Outer Frequencies
Profile and Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar Player, March 1992
"MY PENCHANT for feedback came naturally," smirks Billy Corgan of Chicago's Smashing Pumpkins. "One day I connected a Supro amp to a Les Paul, turned ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines of God
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, March 2000
CURRENT ROCK carries the air of an apprehensive lover who's lately been having a bit of trouble maintaining an erection, fretfully wondering, "Will I be ...
Glastonbury: Where Were You While We Were All Getting Dry?
Report by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 5 July 1997
So, you are back home again, tucked up in bed, bad dose of the snivels. Your shoes are f***ed, your bones a bit soggy. Well, ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Underworld, London
Live Review by Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
AMERICAN bands are popular because they come over here and kick serious ass. Smashing Pumpkins are from Chicago and they prove more than our expectations ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 26 May 1998
WHEN THE last great American rock-'n'-roll band left alive hit the stage, it's like Britpop never happened. ...
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: Hanging on in "this dirty pop business"
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 5 December 2014
BILLY CORGAN is still big: all shaven-headed, 6ft 3in of him. It's rock music, he has decided, which got small, and he had better find ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Fuck Off... We're From CHICAGO!
Interview by Nick Jones, Spiral Scratch, 9 January 1992
"ISN'T THIS where The Beatles grew up?" inquires Billy Corgan from the stage of the Underworld club in London's Camden Town. His 4-piece Chicago band ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Out on a limb
Interview by Pat Blashill, Details, October 1996
Billy Corgan is the zero who became a hero. But when Jonathan Melvoin died and Jimmy Chamberlin was dismissed from the Smashing Pumpkins, the world ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellow, Jolly and the Infinite Madness
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 4 May 1996
It's all gone weird in Amsterdam — the Smashing Pumpkins are eating hash cakes, visiting gay bars, getting chatted up by lesbians and generally having ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
As soon as Smashing Pumpkins released Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness in October 1995, their shaven-skulled mainman Billy Corgan buttheaded his way round the ...
The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Virgin)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1995
"I'M RUNNING out of sound," sings Billy Corgan, seemingly determined to display every one he can think of during this sprawling swan song for the ...
Beyond The Nightmares: Billy Corgan
Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2005
THE YOUNGER ONES recognise him and stop to say hello, but heaven knows what the older visitors make of Billy Corgan as we wander around ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 6 June 1998
SMASH'N'DRAB ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Raging Bill
Interview by Siân Pattenden, Select, December 1995
It's just impossible being in the Smashing Pumpkins. No one understands, you see, what it is to be spokesman for a tortured and romantic Generation ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Review by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 14 November 1993
THIS MAJOR-LABEL debut by the Smashing Pumpkins recently shot straight onto the Billboard chart at No. 10, partially justifying the industry hype about the Chicago ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/The Machines Of God
Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, April 2000
MONOLITHIC GOTH-metal comeback from crisis-hit Mr Happy of alternative rock. ...
Don't fear the weeper: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Hut)
Review by Ted Kessler, Vox, December 1995
WELL, COME ON IN, Mr Corgan. What will it be today? Let's see… Perhaps the whip-cracking, bitch-baiting, wrap-around metal thong? No? What about the cherubic ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Machina/Machines of God (Hut) *
Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 18 February 2000
FOR THE DIZZY hippy posing as disaffected slacker, Smashing Pumpkins were the perfect band to help you dream your way through the grunge era. ...
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