Billy Corgan

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Oct. 12-14

Friday, October 12 Busdriver BOOTLEG THEATER Behold rapper Busdriver, the polysyllabic polymath who is truly, beautifully and persistently on his own thing, including collabs with DIY experimental punk bands and the routine dispensation of Can references. He first blinded minds with a wordcram MC ... More >>

Billy Corgan on Smashing Pumpkins' New Lineup and the Glory Days

By Neph Basedow Poet e.e. cummings said, "To destroy is always the first step in any creation." For Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, destruction and creation are a way of life. "A good artist is willing to die many times over," Corgan says. "What's funny is, I've died so many times." The l ... More >>

Music Picks: Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Low End Theory Anniversary

Smashing Pumpkins - The Wiltern - 10/5/11

Timothy Norris​See also: The Wiltern Opened 80 Years Ago. Its Survival Story Is As Grand As Its Terra-Cotta Tile Smashing Pumpkins The Wiltern 10/5/11 Better than...going to a Zwan show It's been a big week for Generation X'ers. First Jane's Addiction played at the Ford Theatre, and last ni ... More >>

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Thundercat - The Echo - 9/5/11

Ian CohenI assume he brings a change of clothes when he's on tour with Suicidal Tendencies​Thundercat The Echo September 5, 2011 See also Ian Cohen's feature profile: Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus Better than: The Gobots' acid jazz project Remember back in ... More >>

Top Ten Bands Who Need To Reunite, NOW

Nope, this doesn't count​Last week, we discussed ten bands who ruined their legacy by reuniting. Don't get the wrong idea, though -- we're not complete haters. And so, here are the groups we'd like to see put together one last reunion tour. Note: We're only talking about bands with all of thei ... More >>

Exclusive: Smashing Pumpkins' New Song "Owata" Debuts on West Coast Sound

​The Smashing Pumpkins have been releasing their 44-track opus, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, one song at a time, and West Coast Sound has the exclusive first listen of track no. 10, "Owata." The song's release comes on the cusp of big news from lead singer Bill Corgan, who tells his Facebook ... More >>

Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess

The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency

Top 10 WTF LA Nightlife Moments of 2010

Lina Lecaro(T)hat's All Folks! at Dragstrip 66​ What a year. Looking back as we always do around this time, one thing was very clear, LA be crazy after dark! Was it end-(or beginning?)-of-decade (yup, look it up) dementia, all the mercury in retrograde activity or something else that gave th ... More >>

Today in WTF: "Pirate Billy Corgan" Twitter Account Retweets Everything the Actual Billy Corgan Tweets, But in Pirate

Arrrr you ready for Pirate Billy Corgan?​Last Friday we had a popular post about the Funniest Song About Hipsters Ever, which got retweeted all over the place. One of the twitterati who spread the gospel of "We all play synth" was none other than recent LA Weekly interview subject Billy Corga ... More >>

Who is Behind LA's Mystery Supergroup HIGHONS?

​You love blind items, so here's a little blind item for your guessing pleasure: One of our tipsters has pointed us towards this release doing the press runs: You are graciously invited to the closing cocktail reception of INSTANT LA SUMMER. We are proud to host musical guests HIGHONS and ... More >>

To Stage War Plays, or Not to Stage War Plays

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Billy Corgan

Smashing Pumpkins singer opens up about his spiritual journey, what the rise and fall of grunge felt like from the inside, and his current role model (Robert Mitchum?)

Sunset Strip Music Festival

Billy Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview (Discussing Los Angeles Occultism, the Fall of Grunge, His Current Happiness, His Disappointments, and his Love for Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga and ... Robert Mitchum?)

Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview!​Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins will be headlining the last night of the 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival this Saturday, August 28. Corgan is the subject of this week's LA Weekly Interview in our print edition. He spok ... More >>

Quick Update: Billy Corgan Interrupts MTV Show in Mexico to Fight Some Mexican Wrestlers

AFP PHOTO/Alfredo Estrella (via Ozphoria)Billy Corgan from rock band Smashing Pumpkins performs with a Mexican westler during the recording of the 'World Stage of MTV' television show, at Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on August 26, 2010 AFP PHOTO/Alfredo Estrella​A few minutes ago, as many ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival Releases Set Times

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

Nightranger: Smashing Patience

Smashing Pumpkins' Sweet, Spirited Set and Sour Climax at the Viper Room

"I love you all, but I'm too old for this shit." These were the last words uttered by Billy Corgan at the close of Smashing Pumpkins' intimate warm-up gig at the Viper Room last night, but the smoldering set his band dished out before leaving the stage proved the last part of that statement couldn't ... More >>

Tonight: Smashing Pumpkins, Damien Jurado, Hot Hot Heat, Dr. Dog, Voxhaul Broadcast

Timothy NorrisSmashing Pumpkins at the Gibson Amphitheatre, December 2008​On the surface, the songs on the first EP in the Smashing Pumpkins' ambitious 44-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope seem to reflect the time main man Billy Corgan spent communing with Spirits in the Sky. Spirits, the side ... More >>

Blast from the Past: The Day Billy Corgan Serenaded Bozo the Clown with a Dylan Song

​We just got a new announcement from part-time Angeleno Billy Corgan and his current crop of Smashing Pumpkins: The SMASHING PUMPKINS have announced a 12-show run of intimate venues beginning July 6 in Cleveland and wrapping July 21 in Tampa. This marks the iconic band's first tour since Dece ... More >>

Today in WTF: Lou Reed as a Mermaid (No, Really)

[UPDATE: ...or is it a Mer-man? (see comment) Out verdict: either works--he's a "Transformer"! har har.] After Billy Corgan and Bozo and a lost-and-found Del Close video, today is shaping up like one of those bizarro Thursdays. Here comes numero tres: From our friends at the Village Voice comes th ... More >>

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

Jam's Addiction: Musicares MAP Fund Benefit Gathers Slash, Lemmy, Ace, Exene and more

The rock community's struggle with substance abuse is no secret, but the glamorization of sex, drugs and rock n' roll means that some sad stats often get buried. For example, new studies show that only 8% of women with drug and alcohol problems ever seek help. The Grammy Foundation's Musicares MAP F ... More >>

Billy Corgan Faces His Inner Demon Backstage at Alterna-Mall

While we were all getting trampled at Coachella, Record Store Day (i.e., "Day for Retailers to Celebrate The Price-Pointing of Vinyl Records to 25 Bucks") was celebrated by Amoeba and the rest of physical media peddlers. Our friend Billy Corgan was at hand as part of his protracted release strategy ... More >>

Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on Facebook: It's Complicated

​Attention: new communication from Planet Courtney! Apparently Billy Corgan recently dissed Hole's new album (which he helped create), but Courtney took the high road (sorry, we couldn't resist) and did what any mature 45-year-old woman would. She wrote him a public love letter on Facebook. ... More >>

A Fresh New Scent

Billy Corgan Births New Trippy Record Label Featuring The Germs, Fancy Space People and More

​You'd think Billy Corgan would be exhausted by now -- dodging paparazzi with his new girl Jessica Simpson, spending countless hours in the studio tinkering with the upcoming Pumpkins album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, oh, and let's not forget running his God blog. We get it, the man's busy. Bu ... More >>

Billy Corgan Was One Creepy-Ass Child, Psychoanalytic Marketing Stunt Shockingly Reveals

www.CharlesAddams.com​Our brethren at the Village Voice report that over the weekend, as part of the marketing strategy for expensive facsimiles of The Red Book--a recently unveiled illustrated manuscript by cultish psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung--our friend Billy Corgan was "psychoanalyzed" i ... More >>

"Billy Corgan is a Magical Musician" Declares David Lynch

In case you didn't know, besides directing films, making neo-goth-rockabilly albums, being our local freelance weatherman, and promoting Transcendental Meditation around the world, David Lynch also has a foundation devoted to helping kids concentrate in dangerous high-school environments. The David ... More >>

In the Studio with Smashing Pumpkins, a Billy Corgan Puppet, Dr. Psychedelic and Studiodog

Recently we started getting Twitter direct messages from someone named @studiodog, and at first we couldn't figure out if the person was an oddball Smashing Pumpkins fan sending news updates on Billy Corgan's progress in the studio or an insider. But as we parsed them further, it started to appear t ... More >>

Billy Corgan & Spirit in the Sky at the Hotel Cafe: Dave Navarro, a New Drummer, and a Costume Contest

Last night at Hollywood's Hotel Café, Billy Corgan and his Sky Saxon-inspired Spirit in the Sky band -- which featured Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction -- introduced to Los Angeles one Mike Byrne, the 19-year old drummer and newest Smashing Pumpkins member. Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan and Spirit i ... More >>

News on the Runaways Movie

Trippin' on Wolfmother Lazerium

Billy Corgan and Others Slated to Play Sky Saxon Memorial

Details of the memorial for LA garage rock legend and frontman of The Seeds Sky Sunlight Saxon have just been released through the artist's official MySpace blog. The event, to take place on July 24 at the Echoplex, will include performances from Spirits in the Sky, a collaboration between Billy Co ... More >>

Smashing Pumpkins Holding Auditions for New Drummer in Los Angeles in Early April

This just in from Billy Corgan's publicist. You, yes you, can be the new Jimmy Chamberlain, who left Smashing Pumpkins last week. Seems Billy and whoever else is in the "Smashing Pumpkins" now are looking for an excellent drummer, and are having an open call.

Smashing Pumpkins at the Gibson, Night One

Night one of the Smashing Pumpkins at the Gibson (Text by Jeff Miller, photos by Timothy Norris. Click on images for entire Smashing Pumpkins slideshow.)As the Smashing Pumpkins took the stage to a surprisingly funky new song called "Everybody Come Clap" for their first proper L.A. show since reunit ... More >>

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

Staycation? Go to the Bowl Instead

Smashing Pumpkins, San Diego, 9/19

Smashing Pumpkins SDSU Open Air Theatre, Sept. 19 By Carlie Armstrong As far as southern California nights go, Wednesday night was alarmingly chilly. However, inside the Open Air Theatre, (though technically still outside) the climate was hot and heavy with the dripping excitement of a sold-out cro ... More >>

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Pussycats and a Cougar

Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their new website. Grande dame of public relations, Alexandra Greenberg, introduced me to the MS in MSO, Mitch Schneider. Mitch (above, in black hat) i ... More >>

Pop-Star Poetry

Match the overpaid artist with the published verse!

Date With the Night

The Raw and the Cooked

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This Is the Rock

Smashing Pumpkins: Headbangin' in the houses of the holy

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