The Smashing Pumpkins unique sound and cemented their status as alternative rock legends, from Mayonaise to Today and 1979.

It was supposed to be their swan song, a grand goodbye to close a hugely influential career. Yet, like most things with the Smashing Pumpkins, their “final” show became far too complicated. The ...

This fall, the Smashing Pumpkins will tour arenas with Jane’s Addiction, and I will be there along with tens of thousands of other 44-year-olds. For people of my vintage, there are few alt-rock ...

Billy Corgan is making his Machines of God tour this year something fresh by introducing at least four songs that have never been played live by Smashing Pumpkins into the setlist. In a mailing to ...

The Smashing Pumpkins has been an iconic alt-rock ban for decades. And now the group has added a new member to help them carry on for decades more. "The news you have been waiting for has finally ...

Billy Corgan remembers it clearly: Dublin Bay half in shadow, his breath catching in the cold, an excited Bono sharing a new song as dawn tinged the horizon. “I had gone to visit Bono at his house. I ...

Smashing Pumpkins are an institution that spans generations. Since their breakthrough in the ’90s, Billy Corgan and co.’s cathartic anthems for the misfits and weirdos have connected on a level deeper ...

On Thursday, Smashing Pumpkins announced their first concerts — to feature three of the band’s original members, vocalist/songwriter Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and guitarist James Iha — ...