Ryan's Smashing Life — Smashing Pumpkins will be joined by Liz Phair on the road for (what is right now a 19-city) Spring Tour. The latest configuration of the band is set to include Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin and Jeff Schroeder. For those who have never seen the band,... more info

Perez Hilton — Belated congrats are in order for Billy Corgan and Chloe Mendel! His rep tell us that the founder and frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins welcomed son Augustus Juppiter Corgan on November 16! Miz Mendel hails from the Big Apple and is the daughter of f... more info

Stereogum — Over the weekend at Boot & Saddle at their home base of Philadelphia, Strand Of Oaks covered both the Smashing Pumpkins and Ryan Adams during their set. Tim Showalter has made his love of both known before — he shouted out Billy Corgan’s band on ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland passed away yesterday, and was honored in tweets by Dave Navarro, Krist Novoselic, and more. Today, another '90s alt-rock musician wrote a long eulogy for him, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.... more info

Stereogum — Billy Corgan has shared a eulogy on the Smashing Pumpkins website for Scott Weiland, the Stone Temple Pilots frontman who passed away yesterday at 48. He reflects on the few personal times they shared together — “…in scarce moments where Scott ... more info

Stereogum — “How Many Blankets Are In The World?” is the sparest track on Saintseneca’s Such Things, the one where Zac Little howls about existential crises and Smashing Pumpkins nostalgia over nothing but minimal ukulele plucking and faint ambient sound. ... more info

Stereogum — While many will undoubtedly spend Halloween watching their favorite local band stumble through a Smashing Pumpkins cover set, those who live in and around the Highland Park suburb of Chicago have the opportunity to hang out with a real Smashing Pumpk... more info

Stereogum — In the 20 years since the Smashing Pumpkins released their third studio LP, there have been albums that matched its stunning ambition; albums that sold as many millions copies; albums that led to music videos that were just as creative and unforgetta... more info

Stereogum — “Run2Me” is a single off of the Smashing Pumpkins’ most recent album Monuments To An Elegy, which was released almost a year ago. The band just debuted a hyper-stylized video for the song, directed by Billy Corgan’s longtime collaborator Lind... more info

Stereogum — Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things, but those thoughts will no longer be posted (in 140 characters or less) on Twitter. As he wrote in his last tweet: Instead, he will be spending his time posting pict... more info