Pumpkins Rock With Mavis Staples, Chris Isaak

Photo by Matt Ziegler Their synthpop phase was more than a decade ago now, so maybe it's time for the Smashing Pumpkins to indulge in another time-honored aging-rocker career cliche: Going retro! Or maybe not. But in the next few months, the reconstituted 90s alt-pop heroes will make a couple of moves that smack of PBS respectability. For one thing, Billy Corgan will soon put in work to benefit public broadcasting in his hometown of Chicago. On April 17 at the Harris Theater for Music and Danc...

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