Billy Corgan’s New Solo Album Features a David Bowie Tribute and a Collaboration With James Iha
William Patrick Corgan, nee Billy Corgan, will release a new solo album, Ogilala, next month. He’s already let loose the single “Aeronaut,” and detailed how working with Rick Rubin kept the songs austere. But in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Corgan revealed that Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha worked with him on a couple tracks. Iha appears on album cut “The Processional,” as well as an as-yet unnamed bonus track. Corgan told interviewer Andy Greene:
“I sent him some [songs] and said to him, ‘I feel like this is right up your alley’ as far as the kind of music he likes to work on. […] He picked out two songs, though one will likely be a B side.”
Iha and Corgan…