The Smashing Pumpkins

YUNGBLUD And THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Team Up For Schorching Rendition Of ‘ZOMBIE’

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Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine

2 January 2026


Credit: Tom Pallant

After his Ozzy celebration with Aerosmith a couple of months ago,
flamboyant English star YUNGBLUD dropped a collaborative track
today with those other heavy rock kingpins The Smashing Pumpkins.

Together, they come up with a remarkable rendition of Yungblud‘s
emotional power ballad ZOMBIE from last year’s album Idols.

Scorching!

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Released Their Magnum Opus ‘MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS’ 30 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

24 October 2025

Rock giants THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (1988–2000, 2006–present)
released their 3rd LP, a double one, titled MELLON COLLIE AND THE
INFINITE SADNESS released on 24 October 1995 in the US, 30 years ago
today.

It went straight to #1 on the US Charts
with first-week sales of 246,500 units.

Pitchfork said: “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was one of the most generous
records of the 90s. Smashing Pumpkins took it upon themselves to make a record that
only teenagers could love and for many it was the only one they needed.”.

Musically, the album has been described as featuring alternative rock, Grunge, alt metal, art rock and heavy metal. Its sprawling nature resulted in diverse music styles from song to song, contrasting what some critics felt was the “one dimensional flavor” of the previous two albums.

The artwork was conceived by American illustrator and collage artist John Craig.
He worked from Corgan‘s scribbled notes and crude sketches, most of which
arrived via fax.

The woman on the front cover is a collage made from two paintings: the face was taken from a work by French painter by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 – 1805), and a portrait of Saint-Catherine Of Alexandria by medieval Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Saint-Catherine Of Alexandria

Billy Corgan: “Do I belong in the conversation
about the best artists in the world? My answer is
yes, I do.”

Singles/clips: Bullet With Butterfly Wings / 1979 / Zero

– BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS –

– 1979 –

– ZERO –

Full album…


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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS By Heavy Numbers – Hear New Juggernaut ‘CHROME JETS’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

12 September 2025

Despite the fact that rock luminaries THE SMASHING PUMPKINS took a 6-year break between 2000-2006 it feels like Billy Corgan (now 58) and his troops have been around
for ages (actually since 1988) without a day off.

Last year, they launched their 13th album
Aghori Mhori Mei and started a very long
tour (still going).

Yet, inbetween, they found some space and time to record a brand-new juggernaut,
titled CHROME JETS. It’s pumpkins by heavy numbers. For the umpteenth time, they
build their trademark wall-of-bulldozing sound again and let the jets fly all over it.

Nothing new under the sun, but good enough to soundtrack
your breakfast and get yourself going to carry another day.

Eastern Tour Dates

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IMAGE OF THE DAY – THE SMASHING PUMPKINS In BELGIUM

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Last Friday, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS shot a lot of bullets with butterfly wings
at Lokerse Feesten. Their guru, Billy Corgan, was, what else, the attention grabber.
He and guitarist James Iha are the two remaining members from the original line-up.

From zero(s) to hero(s).

SETLIST

Where Boys Fear to Tread
Pentagrams
Today
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
1979
Edin
Mayonaise
Take My Breath Away
(Berlin cover)
999
Disarm
Tonight, Tonight
Cherub Rock
Jellybelly
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Ava Adore
Stand Inside Your Love
Zero
The Everlasting Gaze

Big Albums Released This Day – 27 July – In 1973, 1979, 1981 & 1993

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27 July 2025

Band: NEW YORK DOLLS

Album: NEW YORK DOLLS
Released: 27 July 1973
Their debut LP


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Band: AC/DC

Album: HIGHWAY TO HELL
Released: 27 July 1979
Their 6th LP


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Band: METALLICA

Album: RIDE THE LIGHTNING
Released: 27 July 1984
Their 2nd full-length

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Band: THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

Album: SIAMESE DREAM
Released: 27 July 1993
2nd longplayer


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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 30 In 2025

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28 December 2024

Band: OASIS

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Their 2nd one. The best-selling
album of the 90s in the UK.

Rolling Stone said: “What’s the Story is more than a natural progression, it’s
a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and personal growth.”

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Band: RADIOHEAD

Album: The Bends
Their second LP. It peaked at
#7 in the UK and #88 in the US.

NME wrote: “Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album
so stunning it would make people forget their own name,
never mind ‘Creep’.”

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Artist: PJ HARVEY

Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one. #12 in the UK.

The Independent (British newspaper): “Harvey’s performance makes the record stand out from its peers. A threatening, nightmarish creature. Imagine Siouxsie and the Bad Seeds”

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Band: BLACK GRAPE
Featuring 2 Happy Mondays.
Bez and Shaun Ryder.

Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…
Their debut longplayer. No. 1 in the UK.

VOX (British music monthly): “Black Grape buzz with the
life-affirming, innovative, fuck-you spirit of true rock’n’roll”.

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Artist: TRICKY

Album: Maxinquaye
The debut of former
Massive Attack member.

Q (British music monthly): “A highly inventive and intoxicating collection.
With this debut, Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic
than his peers”.

PlAY


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Band: PULP

Album: Different Class
The 5th one of the Sheffield, led by Jarvis Cocker.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 44 in the USA.

Melody Maker (former British weekly): “Bloody essential. The album’s title
alone announces that Cocker’s broadened his scope, has another axe to grind:
social
antagonism.”

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Band: LEFTFIELD

Album: LEFTISM
London-based duo’s
debut LP.

NME said: “There’s a scope and spirit, an energy and a madness to ‘Leftism’ which’ll
make it one of the few dance derived that’ll stay up there, bouncing around in the great
echo chamber of futurity for years.

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Band: GARBAGE

Album: Garbage
The Scottish/American team’s 1st one.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 20 in the US.

AllMusic: “Garbage’s self-titled debut has all the trappings of alternative rock, off-kilter arrangements, occasional bursts of noise, a female singer with a thin, airy voice but it
comes off as pop, thanks to the glossy production courtesy of drummer Butch Vig.”

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Band: THE SMASHING PUMKINGS

Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3rd longplayer, a double one. No. 1 in the US, and the UK.

Time USA said: “The group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet. One gets the feeling that the band charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn’t allow for second-guessing or contrivance.”

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Band: THE CHARLATANS

Album: THE CHARLATANS
Their 4th LP. #1 in the UK.

NME wrote: “It feels unequivocally like a statement of intent. With the various
influences, the band was capable of absorbing the sensibility wholesale, while
leaving the incriminating specifics alone.”

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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – New Album ‘AGHORI MOHRI MEI’ Online Now – Familiar Territory

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2 August 2024


New album artwork

Spread over two years, 2022-2023, THE SMASHING PUMKINGS,
fronted by general Billy Corgan released Atum: A Rock Opera
In Three Acts last year.

And general Billy Corgan‘s productive juices keep on flowing. The result is already
another new longplayer. Today they dropped AGHORI MHORI MEI on the internet,
only three weeks after its release announcement. No singles to warm up, the full
shebang – 10 songs – in one go.


Press photo

Physical copies of the LP will be released in the future on exclusive edition
Vinyl through frontman Billy Corgan‘s Chicago tea room Madade ZuZu’s.

Billy Corgan about AMM: “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, “you can’t go home again.” Which I have found personally to be true in form but thought well, what if we tried anyway? Not so much in looking backwards with sentimentality but rather as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”

TUTV: To my ears, AMM resonates (so far, just had a couple of spins at this very
moment), like Atum Part IV. Vintage Smashing Pumpkins bombast featuring familiar sounding wall-of-guitar haymakers such as Edin, Pentagrams, War Dreams Of Itself and Sicarus, some high-voltage, mid-tempo jackhammers (999 / Sighomni), and a couple of amplified ballads, Pentecost, Who Goes There, Goeth The Fall and my favorite one,
closer Murnau.

Nothing awful, nothing supreme. Familiar territory.

Corgan cites ‘Siamese Dream’ and ‘Mellon Collie’ as references, although I’m sure
he knows that he will never get back to that outstanding, monumental level any
more.

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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – New Album ‘AGHORI MHORI MEI’ Out August 2

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Spread over two years, 2022-2023, THE SMASHING PUMKINGS,
fronted by general Billy Corgan released Atum: A Rock Opera
In Three Acts.

While on tour now, they just issued a statement via their socials saying
that album #13 is finished and bagged. It’s titled AGHORI MHORI MEI.

It’ll be shared digitally on August 2. Physical copies of the LP will be released
in the future on exclusive edition Vinyl through frontman Billy Corgan‘s Chicago
tea room Madade ZuZu’s. See their communication below.

Billy Corgan: “It’s a straight up rock and roll guitar record.
It very much sounds like the ‘Siamese Dream’ / ‘Mellon Collie’
version of the band“.

Pumpkins: Instagram

ALICE GLASS Covers Lost SMASHING PUMPKINS Classic ‘DROWN’

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18 April 2024

DROWN is one of the best songs Billy Corgan ever wrote for/with
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. It happened after their 1991 Gish LP
came out, and featured on the soundtrack of 1992 romantic comedy
film Singles by Cameron Crowe.

It should have been a huge hit.

Billy Corgan:“We wanted it to be a single, we were pushing for it. I was even willing
to make it a video. Radio stations were playing it. And when it came time for the third
single (off the soundtrack) , they said, ‘Screaming Trees.’ And I was like, ‘Screaming Trees??’
But what label is Alice in Chains on and what label are the Screaming Trees on? ‘Epic‘,
which is the label that put out the soundtrack. And that’s what killed the song.”

Afterward, in 2001, SP included the song on their Greatests Hits compilation
Rotten Apples, although they cut it, incredibly, in half, killing the flabbergasting
guitar solo in the process.

Here’s the full movie soundtrack version.

I almost forgot why I started this post in the first place. So here we go. Canadian artist ALICE GLASS, former vocalist of EBM trash duo Chrystal Castles just shared her version of the song.

Glass: “I believe in the power of art to transcend betrayal and disappointment. “Drown” is not just a cover; it’s a testament to resilience and artistic integrity. This track was created after we were asked to be a part of an exciting compilation that ultimately didn’t end up happening. But I didn’t want that to stop us from sharing our interpretation of this iconic Smashing Pumpkins track. This release is a declaration of autonomy and a reminder that true artistry cannot be stifled by broken promises.”

Glass really turned it upside down. Check it out.

(Image Alice Glass: cover of her solo debut LP ‘PREY//IV)