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In a New York Times Popcast conversation, Billy Corgan defended his friendship with Marilyn Manson, challenged how critics have assessed his work, and compared himself to Kanye West.
The band's Rats in a Cage Tour stopped at the United Center for a two-set homecoming show built around Mellon Collie's 30th anniversary. The setlist delivered. The room had nowhere to go.
His career traced an unlikely arc through industrial rock, nu-metal, pop stardom, and hip-hop, marking him as one of the quiet architects of modern music business.
As festival behavior descends further into bodily logistics, a sealed bag of urine passed overhead at Chicago’s Grant Park.
The festival’s second day in Chicago paired hometown veterans with a returning pop shape-shifter, as rain fell steadily over Grant Park.
Charli xcx’s pop-focused headline set and a surprise appearance by Olivia Rodrigo with Smashing Pumpkins defined the festival’s second night in Chicago.
The appearance, nearly upstaged by an airport sighting, extends a pattern of Rodrigo paying direct homage to ’90s alt-rock figures onstage.
The two rock acts are among the latest class of music honorees selected for the landmark sidewalk.
A collection of home-recorded sketches and field recordings from her time in Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins surfaces alongside a Toronto exhibition.
The short-lived supergroup’s prolific period will finally surface in remixed form, years after disbanding, with Corgan splitting the material into separate releases.
