Billy Corgan on what drives guitar heroes to change their tone – and how it led him to package his sound in a pedal

The Smashing Pumpkins guitar icon reflects on a tonal journey four decades in the making, what pushes him to make signature ...
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Billy Corgan Says Metallica’s ‘Fuel’ Reminds Him of a Smashing Pumpkins Song

Billy Corgan said that Metallica's "Fuel" reminds him of a Smashing Pumpkins song, although he admitted he's "certainly ripped Metallica off plenty." The Smashing Pumpkins frontman discussed his ...
MetalSucks

Billy Corgan Points Out Similarity Between Metallica’s “Fuel” and Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tales of a Scorched Earth”

Music history is littered with accusations of plagiarism, some more legit than others. Did Ray Parker Jr. really rip off Huey Lewis and the News? Did the Red Hot Chili Peppers really rip off Tom Petty ...
American Songwriter

Billy Corgan Reveals Why Smashing Pumpkins Is “One of the Most Misunderstood Bands” in All of Rock and Roll

Forming the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins during the late 1980s, Billy Corgan spent the last few decades navigating the music industry. Just last year, the band released its latest album ...
NPR

8 Tracks: Go back to those gold sounds

8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. A slightly different version of ...
Drowned In Sound

Smashing Pumpkins - American Gothic EP

American Gothic is passably structured, yes, but also instantly forgettable and with a curious lack of personality that’s unfortunately become one of Billy Corgan’s calling cards post-Y2K» ...
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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan dives deep into band’s catalog in Pittsburgh show

If Billy Corgan wants to go out and explore some lesser-known Smashing Pumpkins tracks, that’s fully his right. Corgan, after all, is the singer/guitarist as well as the primary songwriter for the ...