ContactMusic — Billy Corgan is writing his autobiography The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has promised to give a truthful account of his life in the band - of which he is the only remaining original member - including addressing the tensions between himself and forme... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — And the hits just keep on coming: Fiona Apple, Smashing Pumpkins, ZZ Top, Colin James and Dexys are just some of the bands crawling out of the woodwork this week. more info

ContactMusic — Billy Corgan would never perform a whole Smashing Pumpkins album live The frontman insists he wont accept offers to play the bands Siamese Dream album in full and believes acts who do are like girls who fk on first dates He said B... more info

Chicago Tribune — With his new band of young-gun Pumpkins, he talks about how he is making his best music since the 90sBilly Corgan calls "Oceania," theSmashing Pumpkins'first studio album since 2007, "an anti-mid-life crisis album." more info

Consequence of Sound — Corgan's on a boat here. more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Oxygen ThievesFrom: Liverpool, United KingdomScouse glum rockers Oxygen Thieves (not to be confused with Brighton's brilliant Oxygen Thieves or Cape Town's cool The Oxygen Thieves more of whom later this week) are the best Liverpool band since Echo &... more info

Guardian Music — Smashing Pumpkins leader is outraged at Jonny Greenwood being valued more highly than Deep Purple's Ritchie BlackmoreThe return of Smashing Pumpkins brings back not just one of the biggest alternative rock groups of the 90s – it also means the worl... more info

ContactMusic — Billy Corgan has lashed out at Radiohead The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has blasted the Oxford band as pompous and says he is horrified that some people think Radioheads Jonny Greenwood is more valuable than Deep Purples Ritchie Blackmore... more info

Perez Hilton — We don't know WHAT Thom Yorke did to smash Billy Corgan's pumpkins… But the Smashing Pumpkins frontman is SO pissed about the 'valuation' system in modern music, that he recently mentioned he would gladly jettison a steaming stream of pee all over ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Smashing Pumpkins at Terminal 5 in 2010 (more by Jen Maier) Billy Corgan's current version of The Smashing Pumpkins (he's the only original member) are set to release their new album, Oceania, next week (6/19) and it's... more info