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

NME Radio — 1. Between now and midday on NME Radio.... ...you can win the race to lunch by sampling musical wonder from people like Johnny Foreigner, Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles and Passion Pit, plus songs that mark high-points in musical history from the ... more info

411 Mania — … Serj Tankian/System of a Down, Skunk Anansie, Slayer, Slipknot, the Smashing Pumpkins, Stereophonics among others including Soundgraden, Satyricon and Seether. Also responses to your comments and thoughts about how awesome it is when your... more info

Guardian Music — The Smashing Pumpkins frontman says the H1N1 virus is part of a conspiracy cooked up by Barack Obama to scare us all. Of course it is, BillyBilly Corgan: poet, rocker and H1N1 sceptic. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has interrupted his postings on Go... more info

Rolling Stone — Who: Before this rising New York indie-pop quartet played a note together, they had a band name, a MySpace page and some shared tastes: “We loved loud, sort of enthusiastic, life-affirming pop like Yo La Tengo and Smashing Pumpkins,” says frontma... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A Billy Corgan show for $12? True — and for a good cause at that. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman will headline a benefit show, under the name Backwards Clock Society, with Ancient Chinese Secrets’ Kerry Brown and the Electric Prunes'... more info

411 Mania — “I can’t afford it, but I would rather be free than rich." more info