Stereogum — Remember when the Smashing Pumpkins did “Zero” on Saturday Night Live? Remember how great that was? People should put the Smashing Pumpkins on TV more often. Even if sometimes they do stuff like this. Further evidence: Billy Corgan and his curren... more info

Stereogum — Billy Corgan has always shown an admirable commitment to random shit, but I don’t think he’s done anything quite this high on the “wait, what” scale since he dated Tila Tequila. At a Paris show over the weekend, Corgan and his Smashing Pumpki... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Twenty-five years down the road, the Pumpkins continue to kick ass. Here are the 111 Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs: Starla (Pisces Iscariot) Disarm (Siamese Dream) Rhinoceros (Gish) Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Mellon Collie and the Infinite ... more info

Stereogum — Billy Corgan may have just put out the ninth Smashing Pumpkins album, but he doesn’t seem to have much faith in the people who got him to where he is. In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal that was conducted a few weeks ago, Corgan was as... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Some rock fans of the mid-1990s may have thought Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins was dealing with ancient history when he wrote and sang the band's biggest hit, "1979." more info

Stereogum — Billy Corgan was out here slagging off Eddie Vedder in last week’s infamous “top two scribes” interview, and he continued his Pearl Jam diss campaign during a visit to The Howard Stern Show this morning to promote the Smashing Pumpkins’ new M... more info

Stereogum — End-of-year lists — including ours — may have already hit the internet, but there are still a few releases left in these waning weeks of 2014. One of them is Monuments To An Elegy, the Smashing Pumpkins’ followup to 2012′s Oceania, and the fi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Gretchen Robinette Smashing Pumpkins released their not-half-bad new album, Monuments To An Elegy, this week, and Billy Corgan's current version of the band celebrated in NYC last night (12/8), their final of four release shows in different... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Vinyl reissues are the highlight of this week's new music, including an R.E.M. 12-disc 7" singles box set and three Beatles compilations (1, 1962-1966, 1967-1970). New releases include Cracker's Berkeley To Bakersfield and The Smashing Pumpkins' Monu... more info