HISTORICAL FACTS: Smashing pumpkins - The Untold Story

Billy Corgan isn't ready to share his 'beautiful' Dolly Parton story

The Smashing Pumpkins star Billy Corgan has revealed why he doesn't want to tell his Dolly Parton story publicly just yet.

BANG Premier · Sep 30

Former Korn, Limp Bizkit, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry manager Peter Katsis dead at 69

Tributes paid to one of the key figures behind the nu metal explosion

Metal Hammer · Aug 7

“Billy shared that the Pumpkins had confirmed headlining Lollapalooza. He said sweetly, ‘If you wanna join us for a song, please do’”: Melissa Auf der Maur lifts the veil on her surprise appearance at Lollapalooza with the Smashing Pumpkins

Auf der Maur ascended to the Lollapalooza stage with her former band in a move that harked directly back to the ’90s

Guitar World · Aug 5

"Celebrate this iconic album on the grandest scale possible." Billy Corgan adds additional shows to his orchestral Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness opera tour

"This magical dream doesn’t have to end"

Louder · Jun 12

“I found myself sitting next to Keith Richards – just two guys playing the guitar. Doesn’t get much better than that!” From Eric Clapton to Daft Punk and Avenged Sevenfold, Greg Leisz has played with everyone. But don’t call him a session guitarist

He says finding himself working with Matthew Sweet, k.d. lang, and Lucinda Williams has been a dream. But he still wants his stolen ’64 Strat back

Guitar World · Jun 8

"I have this memory of killing myself, blasting my head off, and then throwing the guitar at the amp over and over." The story behind the most intense song on the most ambitious rock album of the '90s

Life isn't always easy as a perfectionist

Louder · Jun 3

“Billy has been an incredible mentor... He has such a vast knowledge of pedals”: Smashing Pumpkins’ Kiki Wong on how Billy Corgan led her down the stompbox rabbit hole

Kiki Wong discusses her pedalboard strategy for nailing classic Pumpkins tones and credits Corgan as a bona-fide guru of effects

Guitar World · May 29

"The multilayered, 10-dimensional record that would help imbue grunge with a panoramic afterburn." Smashing Pumpkins' debut album Gish mixes Zep rock grooves, acid folk, shoegaze and trippy psychedelic angst

Gish is celebrating its 35th birthday in shades of variously coloured vinyl

Louder · May 28

"He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him." Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure...and the first time he met Robert Smith

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends

Louder · May 26

Smashing Pumpkins up for Las Vegas Sphere Mellon Collie show

Billy Corgan says Smashing Pumpkins would jump at the chance to bring their operatic A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness production to the Las Vegas Sphere, even though they haven’t been asked yet.

BANG Premier · May 25