This article was originally published in the December 1991 issue of SPIN. Smashing Pumpkins were one of our Artist of the Year runner-ups. In honor of Gish turning 30, we’re republishing this article. With its simultaneously childlike and ferocious debut album, gish (Caroline Records), the Chicago-based hard-soft psychedelia foursome Smashing Pumpkins exploded onto the 1991 indie-rock landscape with all […]
Billy Corgan is only too happy to talk about the influence the Smashing Pumpkins’ Gish LP — 30 years old this year — had on the burgeoning alt-rock scene. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Corgan said, “I remember having a conversation with Eddie Vedder when we were on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He told […]
Six months after releasing their latest double album, CYR, Smashing Pumpkins are back with a throwback to the very beginning of the band. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their groundbreaking debut album, Gish, Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin will be hosting a two-hour livestream on Saturday, May 29. The livestream will feature a Q&A, Gish listening party, […]
The festival announcements are rolling in faster than you can say COVID lockdown. Riot Fest, which announced part of its lineup last June, has unveiled the whole thing and it’s a doozy. Nine Inch Nails (who are also headlining Louder Than Life a weekend later) are joining Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies and Run the Jewels at the top […]
Not all love songs are romantic. Not all love songs are even happy. It all depends on your definition of the term. For every “My Girl” or “Your Song,” there’s at least one track with a nuanced take on the darker, more complicated sides of love — the drama of a long-term relationship, the fear […]
Billy Corgan has announced that The Smashing Pumpkins’ Machina II rework is complete and in the process of being mastered. In an interview with Radio.com, the singer/guitarist says that “the album reconstituted comes in at about 50-plus tracks” with the entire project clocking in at “somewhere in the 80-track range.” The new release of Machina […]
Let’s face it: With most “Best Albums” lists, you know the broad strokes of the ranking before you even click. Part of that predictability is understandable: Most iconic records earn their reputation. But these rankings shouldn’t be fossilized, and a shit-ton of amazing LPs have been shoved aside in the pursuit of maintaining the status […]
Smashing Pumpkins’ double album CYR was released last Friday. Billy Corgan has been making the interview rounds, but last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the band played the title track for the first time in a “live” setting. By live, we mean a socially-distanced performance where Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain and Jeff Schroeder join forces […]
To celebrate Friday the 13th, Smashing Pumpkins dropped a video for the tune “Wyttch” off their forthcoming double album CYR, which comes out Nov. 27. The song was previously released in conjunction with the track Ramona,” but the “Wyttch” video — directed by Charlotte Kemp Muhl of the New York bands UNI and The Ghost of […]
In the spirit of their upcoming double album, Smashing Pumpkins just dropped not one, but two new songs. After sharing two tracks off their upcoming release CYR in late September, the band decided to give fans a little more Friday with the release of another pair of album cuts. For this week’s New Music Friday, the group — […]