When the Smashing Pumpkins took to a SXSW rooftop earlier this year, they cranked out this interstellar rendition of David Bowie 's 1969 classic "Major Tom." While you won't find the electrifying cover on the Pumpkins' most recent album, Oceania , the band lights up the Austin night in this clip.
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American alt-rockers The Smashing Pumpkins have confirmed that theyre working on their next studio album.
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Anberlin remains one of the most exciting live acts in modern alternative rock.
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The new-look Smashing Pumpkins are set to tour the world during 2013 in support of their recent album Oceania.
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The punk pioneers are set to release Ready to Die on April 30 via Fat Possum.
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It had cost over $250,000 to record over a period of four months.
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Alternative rockers The Smashing Pumpkins are to play three live shows in the UK this July. Billy Corgan will bring the latest incarnation of his ever-changing band to the UK this summer to support seventh studio album 'Oceania'.
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Fresh from the release of their latest album Oceania, The Smashing Pumpkins are back in the UK this summer and will be playing three dates this July culminating with a huge show at London's Wembley Arena.
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Billy Corgan's deluxe re-release of his entire career arrives at 1995's Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness , certainly the band's commercial peak and arguably their creative peak too.
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Given the cooled reaction to much of The Smashing Pumpkins '/Billy Corgan's output over the past decade or so, one might be tempted to question who the target audience might be for a $140 special edition box set of an album they first released 17 years ago.
Read MoreAll too often we wax nostalgic, inviting the past to creep up on us with admiration.
Read MoreAll too often we wax nostalgic, inviting the past to creep up on us with admiration.
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The Smashing Pumpkins ' ringleader – and the circus analogy is apt given this band's history – desired a debut that'd find its place amongst the greats.
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In honor of a really incredible 12 months for tunes of all kinds, ARTISTdirect.com chose its list of the best albums of 2012.
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Read MoreThe Smashing Pumpkins , known for their diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound—and that 1995 mega-hit album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness —is on tour in support of their recent release, Oceania , with a stop at DC's Patriot Center this Sunday (12/9), and we've got a pair of tickets to give away to one of you.
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I got into a discussion recently with a co-worker who loves The Smashing Pumpkins.
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Messy, unwashed hair; huffed lyrics about late-night drug binges and afternoon fornication; exaggerated claims of illustrious fame and fortune.
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It is fitting that the Smashing Pumpkins seemingly always tour in the month of October.
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Most bands don't host legendary tours after two decades.
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Alternative music has certainly changed, but there are a few bands still doing it right.
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The Smashing Pumpkins have announced plans for a massive reissue of the band's classic 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
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Billy Corgan's Tree Almost Killed Rebecca Gayheart, Now He's Being Sued!
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Billy Corgan's Stage Clothes Were Stolen!
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There's only one way to experience Oceania , and that's in its entirety.
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After announcing the preliminary details of a new national tour yesterday Billy Corgan and his variant incarnation of The Smashing Pumpkins made an appearance as the musical guest for last night's broadcast of The Tonight Show. Performing the rock ballad "The Celestials" from their latest full-length Oceania , the band brought plenty of '90s brooding to the LA stage.
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This morning, veteran alt-rockers The Smashing Pumpkins announced this morning that they're going to be hitting the road this fall for a U.S. tour.
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Pisces Iscariot remains a hidden gem in the canon of '90s alternative rock.
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I barely recall having two nickels to rub together at any given time in the 1990s, but between studio albums, video collections, B-side compilations, t-shirts, live bootlegs, and guitar tablature books (even Adore !), I estimate that the Smashing Pumpkins separated me from about $400.
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Though he is an incredibly talented songwriter and musician, many scoff at him for his big head.
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It's been a long time since former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha has had a solo record.
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There's always been a distinctly heavy edge to The Smashing Pumpkins.
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The Smashing Pumpkins are celebrating the release of their latest album 'Oceania' with a giveaway of five, limited edition canvas art prints of the album cover along with a copy of the record on double vinyl.
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The Smashing Pumpkins ' reissue campaign will continue with the 1994 odds-and-ends collection Pisces Iscariot.
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"To me, words are incredible," smiles The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.
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After a long, but not Guns and Roses-esque, five year wait for a brand new full-length release following 2007s epic 'Zeitgeist' record, we find the Pumpkins in a more able, creative mood than before.
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There are few groups in modern music that testify to the power that is the name of a band to quite the degree of The Smashing Pumpkins.
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With the impending release of Oceania [Pre-order here !] on June 19, 2012, ARTISTdirect.com decided to take a look back at not only of the greatest releases from The Smashing Pumpkins , but one of alternative rock's finest hours, Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.
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If I told you that the new Smashing Pumpkins album was called Oceania , and pointed out that the title sounds an awful lot like the one of an Isis record, Oceanic , you'd probably say, "Well, that's true, but it's not the same word, and it's not as though Isis invented the word 'ocean' or 'oceanic' or any variation thereof, so I don't think there's any real connection there."
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