LargeHeartedBoy — Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Carrie Rodriguez: 2008-12-04, Kent [mp3,ogg,flac] "El Salvador" [mp3] other Carrie Rodriguez posts at Largehearted Boy Chatham County Line: 2009-08-20, Bergen [mp3,ogg,flac] "One More Shot" [mp3] other Chatham Co... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Former Smashing Pumpkins rockers James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky-Brown have settled two lawsuits with the band's frontman Billy Corgan and their one-time record label Virgin. more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Former Smashing Pumpkins rockers James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky-Brown have settled two lawsuits with the band's frontman Billy Corgan and their one-time record label Virgin. more info

Detroit Free Press — An attorney says The Smashing Pumpkins have settled a pair of lawsuits filed against Virgin Records over use of the band's music. more info

The Newsroom — v6782, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - Friday November 6 2009. **EXCLUSIVE** Hulk Hogan is arm wrestled by a schoolboy, meets what must surely be his biggest fan, then goes on to tell how he was hit on by Jerry Hall! Hogan also talks about his failed dr... more info

Guardian Music — These giants of rock have had fun in the studio. But Alexis Petridis struggles to see the point of a CDIt's hard to call Them Crooked Vultures anything other than a supergroup – the line-up features Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul J... more info

Stereogum — Much as Billy Corgan has made a sport of testing Smashing Pumpkins fans' limits this past year, last night's benefit for one-time Smashing Pumpkins Fan Club chief Laura Ann Marusa is a reminder that he really does appreciate those that appreciate ... more info

Rolling Stone — In honor of Halloween, our weekend Rock List was devoted to haunting Ghost Songs — or songs that just have the word “ghost” in the title. We counted the votes, and Johnny Cash’s terrifying retelling of “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” beat out... more info

Live Daily — Billy Corgan [ tickets ] recently posted a controversial theory at his blog, saying he is suspicious about the "propaganda" surrounding the H1N1, or swine flu, virus. The Smashing Pumpkins [ tickets ] frontman suggests the possibility that the vir... more info

Starpulse — Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan has blasted plans to force everyone in Massachusetts to have swine flu vaccinations, insisting he'll never agree to be injected.[...] Read more! more info