Billy Corgan made a surprise appearance during Sombr’s set last weekend at Coachella. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman, who had never played Coachella before, joined Sombr on a performance of “1979.” ...
Billy Corgan Remembers Exact Moment He Wrote Smashing Pumpkins Hit “1979,” Right Down to the Weather
The Smashing Pumpkins cemented their spot in the alt-rock canon with their massively successful track “1979” from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “1979” became the band’s highest-charting ...
Irish band NewDad recently covered the Smashing Pumpkins hit “1979” while in Austin, Texas. They were originally set to play SXSW, but were one of 12 Irish bands to pull out of the festival. Nearly 60 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nita Strauss may be on maternity leave from the rock and roll road, but she's still been playing plenty of guitar for an audience ...
Billy Corgan is always looking for another envelope to push. On Tuesday night, the iconoclastic Smashing Pumpkins singer and original band members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin held a concert at the ...
The track remains Smashing Pumpkins' highest-charting hit to date. By Hannah Dailey Kelly Clarkson‘s latest Kellyoke is a smash. For the Tuesday (Feb. 27) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the three ...
Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin explains how the band’s hit song “1979” almost never happened. He reveals that he struggled with the original drum part until producer Flood transformed a ...
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is "honoured and touched" after R'n'B star Jessie Reyez interpolated the alternative band's track '1979' on her new single, 'Psilocybin and Daisies'. The 33-year-old ...
It's a time-honored trick: In an attempt to make a new hit record, you liberally sample from an existing hit record. When I was growing up, this formula worked wonders for the likes of MC Hammer and ...
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