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The Smashing Pumpkins have shared a new song from their upcoming 'Monuments to an Elegy'. "Tiberius" is heavy on the synth effects and heavier with the guitars. Billy Corgan growls all over the track as the rest of the Pumpkins play on. The song is the third singles from the album, with "Being Beige" and "One and All" dropping in October and earlier this month, respectively. -
10 Bands That Were Started With Former Bandmates
Bands break up all the time, but just because a group of musicians have decided not to work together anymore as a unit, it doesn't mean that none of the members will never work together again. Here are 10 examples of bands that were started with former bandmates. -
Billy Corgan Fired Smashing Pumpkins Drummer For Being A "Twitch" With "ADD"
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a notoriously strained relationship with the people he's played music with, so it came as no surprise when he fired drummer Mike Byrne back in June. Though the reasons for Byrne's dismissal weren't made entirely clear at the time, Corgan discusses his decision in a lengthy (and occasionally confusing) blog post made to the Smashing Pumpkins' website, in which he blames the 24-year-old Byrne for holding up the recording of the band's upcoming albums, calling him a "twitch" with "ADD." -
Smashing Pumpkins Share 'One and All' from Upcoming 'Monuments to an Elegy' [LISTEN]
In anticipation of their upcoming album "Monuments to an Elegy," The Smashing Pumpkins have shared another new single, titled "One and All," which you can check out below. Fans of the Pumpkins will not be disappointed, as the song has a darkly metallic quality reminiscent of their 1995 opus "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." "I basically sang the whole song the first time I wrote it," frontman Billy Corgan told "The Huffington Post" about "One and All." "It had written itself." -
Bleachers Wasn't The First Band to Feature Ice Cream Trucks: Videos from Smashing Pumpkin, Skrillex, ILOVEMAKONNEN and More
Music Times celebrates Bleachers' new video with five other clips based around ice cream trucks. -
8 Bands To Definitely Check Out At CMJ 2014
CMJ 2014 begins tomorrow, Oct. 21, in dozens of venues across New York City, and with more than 1,300 artists performing, it can be pretty tough to decide which ones are worth your time and money. Though it is tempting to see some of the bigger, tried-and-true artists who are performing, such as Slowdive, Low and Foster the People, CMJ is more about catching up-and-coming talent you may have never heard before. Here are eight relatively unknown bands you should check out at CMJ 2014. -
Smashing Pumpkins "Being Beige" Review: Listen to Billy Corgan & Co.'s Emotional New Single
Smashing Pumpkins are due to release two new albums in the next year or so, and fans of the longtime alt-rock outlet now have the first sampling of Billy Corgan and co.'s new album, Monuments to an Elegy. Today (Oct. 20), Smashing Pumpkins released its first single in two years, the slow burning ballad "Being Beige." -
Courtney Love Claims 'Siamese Dream' Is Mostly About Her, Ruins Smashing Pumpkins for Everyone
If Courtney Love's goal was to ruin Smashing Pumpkins for everyone in a recent interview, she likely succeeded. The oft-harangued 1990s celebrity told BBC Radio 6 that almost all of Billy Corgan's songs on SP's classic 1993 album "Siamese Dream" are about her. -
Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young and N.W.A. Redone with Cats: A List Inspired by Run The Jewels' 'Meow The Jewels'
Run The Jewels potential remix "Meow The Jewels" got us thinking: A) Cats are awesome (we're always thinking this) and B) what other albums would we like to see/hear after getting the cat treatment? -
Billy Corgan Suggests Smashing Pumpkins Are Done after Two New Albums in 2015
Smashing Pumpkins frontman and leader Billy Corgan has told his hometown Chicago Tribune that he may end his iconic group following the release of his twin 2015 albums, Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night. -
10 Best VMA Video Of The Year Winners Of All Time
It's been thirty years since the very first Video Music Awards on MTV, which means thirty videos have been granted the award for Video of the Year. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the VMA's, here are the best of the best, the top 10 winners of the coveted Video of the Year award. -
9 Great Cameos from Musicians on 'The Simpsons'
The cultural impact of The Simpsons is immeasurable, as you can tell from checking out Joey "Sideshow Joe" DeGroot's list on the number of bands that named songs (or themselves) after references to the animated classic. Celebrities of all stripes realize the kind of power that such a program packs so they'll readily appear as guest stars. The number of musical guests in the history of The Simpsons is huge, but we've whittled it down to nine of the best in honor of the current marathon of every episode currently happening on FXX. -
9 Albums That Open With Instrumentals
Last week I wrote about albums that end on instrumental tracks, which I described as sort of epilogues to the album's narrative structure. If ending an album on an instrumental is an epilogue, opening with one must be a prologue, a way to ease the listener in. Here are nine albums that open with instrumental tracks. -
8 Duets We Don't Want To Hear
With the upcoming releases of Smokey Robinson's duets album (Smokey & Friends) and a collaborative album between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett (Cheek To Cheek), it seems like duets have become pretty popular recently. Though Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's voices seem like they would go well together, there are plenty of other artists who definitely shouldn't sing together. Here are some duets that we do not want to hear. -
5 Musicians to Keep Your Daughters Away From
Dating site eHarmony is having Fred Durst direct a series of commercials for its upcoming campaign. Durst may have been awfully immature in his earlier years but he seems to have figured it out as of late. Here are five performers we want our daughters nowhere near.
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