The Smashing Pumpkins return to the synth-rock side of their legendary past with “Cyr” and “The Colour of Love,” released today. A new album is in the works for independent label Sumerian Records.
Also on Wednesday: Omar Apollo, Sun Seeker, Bad Moves, Flavia, Derek Smalls, Pivot Gang, Lil Mosey, Iration Steppas, Karmic, Kali Kazoo, the No. 44, Britta, In Flames, Zac Clark, HANA, Holychild, Band Aparte
Also on Tuesday: Jolie Holland, Brutus, Carriers, Dune Rats, BBMAK, David Cook, Ski Mask the Slump God, Jaymes Young, IDK, Ink Blot, Sun Seeker, Black Stone Cherry, Switchfoot
Incoming: Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Tropicalia Festival, City Hearts Festival, Billy Corgan, Bauhaus, Jay Park, Crook, SOAK, Whitney, Omar Apollo, Sudan Archives, San Cha, Swervedriver, Two Door Cinema Club, Frenship, Noah Gundersen, Built to Spill, Matt & Kim, Chon, Craig Finn, Melvins, Brother Ali, Lyrics Born, Gesaffelstein, Mt. Joy, San Fermin, Miami Horror, Pinback, Peter Hook & the Light, Starcrawler, the Drums, Goldroom, Melanie Martinez, Sloan, Saves the Day
Smashing Pumpkins played a 3 1/2-hour marathon on Thursday, the first of their two night at the Forum. It was a sonic and visual spectacle.
Jimmy Chamberlin and James Iha will be back with Billy Corgan for the Smashing Pumpkins’ 36-date summer tour, which stops at the Forum in August.
Billy Corgan has been in a news a lot recently, giving good interview, waxing philosophical about the state of music and his place in it, the psoriasis of pop culture and, naturally, the Smashing Pumpkins’ new album “Monuments to an Elegy,” their ninth. He’s been ambushed by Anderson Cooper (and returned fire), likened his role […]
When we last heard from U.K.-bred, L.A.-based songstress Carina Round, she was releasing an EP as part of the Early Winters. She’s been busy; Round has a full-length in the works for next spring – collaborators include Billy Corgan, Dave Stewart and Brian Eno – and she’s guesting with Maynard James Kennan’s Puscifer, with whom […]
Mark Tulin, the bass player for 1960s psych-rock innovators the Electric Prunes and a recent collaborator with the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, has died at age 62. According to various news reports, Tulin on Saturday was participating in the Avalon Underwater Clean-Up when he collapsed. The Prunes, best known for their 1966 hit “I Had […]
7.8.2010 (Grand Rapids, Mich.) We arrived at our hotel in Grand Rapids around 7 a.m., I pretty much went straight to bed. I usually try not to sleep on the bus. I guess I’m not that comfortable with communal sleeping quite yet. But this is a blog about the band and the tour, not my […]
