With a summer tour kicking off next month, the Smashing Pumpkins have made good on the promise of new music with a new song. Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin have shared “Solara.” It’s the Pumpkins’ first song with Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin since 2000. The band’s fourth founding member, bassist D’arcy Wretzky, is not involved. Listen below. More
Billy Corgan unveiled a kaleidoscopic 40-minute silent film, Pillbox, featuring music from his new solo album, Ogilala. Corgan wrote the film and directed it alongside longtime collaborator Linda Strawberry. More
William Patrick Corgan (that’s Billy Corgan, you nincompoops) has released a new song from his upcoming, Rick-Rubin-produced solo album Ogilala. The video for the acoustic-guitar-driven “The Spaniards” begins with an image recalling the young lovers scenes in The King and I, then devolves into a combo of faux-sepia-toned clips from non-existent ’30s films and some news reel footage. Eventually, it moves into color, and…
In 2014, Billy Corgan performed an eight-hour ambient set inspired by Hermann Hesse’s 1922 novel Siddhartha; the results were bizarre. For fans who could not attend the event, Corgan is now offering a 5xLP vinyl box set of his performance. The package is limited to 500 copies and is available from Madame ZuZu’s (the Chicago…
Last night, at Cyndi Lauper’s Home for the Holidays benefit concert at New York’s Beacon Theater, she was joined by Billy Corgan for a performance of the Crystals’ 1961 song “There’s No Other (Like My Baby).” Lauper also played “Time After Time” with Aloe Blacc, and rallied together a group…
