Tag Archives: Smashing Pumpkins
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Smashing Pumpkins keep pushing on ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’
The Smashing Pumpkins, “Aghori Mhori Mei.” Billy Corgan’s Smashing Pumpkins have reached the level of cultural wallpaper. The band’s ’90s hits like “Today” and “Cherub Rock” are as well known as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and Bachmann Turner Overdrive’s “Takin’ Care of Business.” But over the band’s nearly…
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BottleRock 2023 Day 1: Smashing Pumpkins, Post Malone, 10 other sets we loved on Friday
Post Malone performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2023. Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — Thousands of attendees packed the Napa Valley Expo on Friday on the first day of the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. The weather cooperated for once, with highs in…
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REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction in fine form at Chase Center
The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — “Cherub Rock” was the dividing line. It was getting late in the Smashing Pumpkins’ almost two-hour set Tuesday night at Chase Center. Until then, the crowd was pretty evenly spaced, age-wise,…
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REWIND: You need Halloween music? We’ve got Halloween music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on June 24, 2017. Photo: Paige K. Parsons. The first year of this column was dedicated to listing my five (or so) favorite songs of every year, so I’ve had three Octobers of writing this where…
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REWIND: Halloween is time for Mercyful Fate and White Zombie
White Zombie, ‘Make Them Die Slowly.’ So first off, has anyone told you to vote yet? Yes? That’s literally all you’ve heard for over a month? Good. Well, do that, if only so turnout is so high we don’t have to deal with the nagging again in a couple…
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ALBUM REVIEW: William Patrick Corgan fizzles on ‘Cotillions’
“I’ll bet Billy Corgan would sound great singing bluegrass tunes!” Cotillions William Patrick Corgan Martha’s Music, Nov. 22 That’s not a sentence that has been uttered out loud by many—even diehard fans of the Smashing Pumpkins. And yet, here we are. Cotillions is the second solo album released under Corgan’s…
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PHOTOS: Smashing Pumpkins bring marathon rock spectacle to Oracle
Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Nineties alt-rock superstars Smashing Pumpkins brought their Shiny Oh So Bright quasi-reunion tour to the Oracle Arena on Monday, with a marathon three-hour setlist that mined the band’s hits, deeps cuts and frontman Billy Corgan’s often idiosyncratic cover song selections. The Pumpkins’ set began with…
