Radio Exile — If you’re a fan of chiptune or are developing an odd fascination with 8-bit versions of music that you already love like we are ["Smells Like Teen Spirit" , 8-Bit Hip Hop or Super Smashing Pumpkins Bros] this tribute album from The Pterodactyl Squa... more info

Allmusic Blog — Having survived multiple years with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur recently battled another difficult situation: the swine flu. Auf der Maur contracted the disease earlier this year and recently documented the experience... more info

XFM.co.uk — The former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist has fallen foul of the pandemic... more info

Allmusic Blog — Reclusive former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D’arcy Wretzky called a Chicago radio program yesterday to answer questions about where she’s been and what she’s been up to since quitting the band in 1999. Along with revealing that she lives on a ho... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mr. Jones said...30 Days Out has been busy at work lately, but not too busy to remember the 40th anniversary of Woodstock coming up in August! Today we take a look at some of the classic Woodstock artists from a small corner in Texas - the names may ... more info

Rolling Stone — Billy Corgan defended his decision to keep performing under the name the Smashing Pumpkins in a long, rambling blog post last week on the band’s official Website, telling fans that even though drummer Jimmy Chamberlin — the Pumpkins’ last origi... more info

NME — He says: 'I am not 'the band', I am just the leader of the band.’ more info

My Old Kentucky — Vancouver two-piece Japandroids will release their debut album, Post-Nothing, this September (pre-order) through Polyvinyl and you better be first in line to pick it up. Most 90s-influenced rock leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, reminding me o... more info

411 Mania — Smashing Pumpkins frontman auctioning off the chance to take him to eat... more info

Rolling Stone — Wondering if Billy Corgan really replaced longtime Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain with a 19-year-old rocker? Ask him yourself … over a nice lunch. Charity Buzz is auctioning off the chance to dine with Corgan in Los Angeles or Chicago.... more info