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We currently have 4,420 articles, detailing 1,337 songs across 152 albums, 85 studio sessions and 2,187 live shows.
Album of the week
The Aeroplane Flies High is a five-disc box set released in 1996, containing expanded versions of all five Mellon Collie singles. Rolling Stone wrote "There is no filler here. These supposedly second-string tracks [to Mellon Collie] are keepers" and that "the ballads are as gorgeous as anything Corgan has ever written". The 2013 reissue delivered an astounding 90 additional tracks and a bonus DVD. The box reached number 42 on the Billboard charts, and sold 300,000 units (1.5 million discs), generating a platinum status.
Song of the day
"Astral Planes" is a song from the Songs for a Sailor volume of the Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project. It was released as an MP3 on April 16, 2010. The following day a limited edition 7" of the song (pictured) with "A Stitch in Time" on side two was released exclusively at Amoeba Vinyl in Los Angeles, limited to 250 copies. Physical copies of the Songs for a Sailor volume as a whole was later released on May 25, 2010. The song was first performed live by Billy Corgan's side project, Spirits in the Sky.
Did you know...
- ...that former drummer Mike Byrne played in a band called The Mercury Tree, which is the name of an old version of "The Crying Tree of Mercury"?
- ...that the original concept for the "Tonight, Tonight" video was for a Busby Berkeley theme, with "people diving into champagne glasses", but Red Hot Chili Peppers did a similar video for "Aeroplane", almost identical to what the band wanted to do?
- ...that a cheat code in the game Doom is a reference to a 1993 Usenet joke called Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris (SPISPOPD), and this is reason the Doom explosion sound was sampled in "Where Boys Fear to Tread"?
- ...that the original cover for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was supposed to picture a Victorian-style set with the full band in costume, but the artist demanded too much money?
- ...that months prior to Zeitgeist's release, two thieves broke into the band's rehearsal space, stole photographs of the album booklet artwork and leaked them online? They were arrested by Chicago Police and charged with felony burglary.
In the news
September 4, 2024
- The Smashing Pumpkins make the digital cover of Revolver magazine with an interview of Billy Corgan on Aghori Mhori Mei.
August 28, 2024
- Billy and Chloe Corgan announce they are expecting their third child in a People exclusive.
August 25, 2024
- Following the long-awaited vinyl release of Rotten Apples, the compilation charts at #12 on the German national chart, and in the US it hits #6 on the Vinyl Albums chart, #11 on Top Albums Sales, and at #16 on the Alternative Albums chart.
August 22, 2024
- Billy Corgan is announced to perform at the Australian Good Things festival with alternative band The Delta Riggs.
August 15, 2024
- The Smashing Pumpkins release a one-minute teaser visualization of "Edin".
Today in history September 18
Releases
- 2012: Look to the Sky by James Iha was released in the US (LP (blue vinyl)) and the UK & Europe (CD)
Live shows
- 1993: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Barrowlands; Glasgow, UK
- 1996: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Madison Square Garden; New York, NY, US
- 1998: (The Smashing Pumpkins) WKQX-FM Studios; Chicago, IL, US – Acoustic contest show for WKQX-FM (Q101)
- 2000: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Alsterdorfer Sporthalle; Hamburg, DE
- 2005: (Jimmy Chamberlin Complex) Vic Theater; Chicago, IL, US
- 2007: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Dodge Theater; Phoenix, AZ, US
- 2010: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre; Greenwood Village, CO, US
- 2017: (Billy Corgan) Madame ZuZu's; Highland Park, IL, US
- 2024: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Chase Field; Phoenix, AZ, US
More fan sites
- SPFC (Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative) – One of the oldest and most comprehensive databases. Much of the data on SPCodex was imported from SPFC.
- SP Freaks – The de facto official museum for The Smashing Pumpkins.
- SPLRA (Smashing Pumpkins Live Recording Association) – A wiki dedicated to documenting live performances.
- The Smashing Pumpkast – A bi-weekly Smashing Pumpkins podcast hosted by Frank Garcia-Hejl and Pat O'Brien.
- SPFam – Facebook-based mental health and wellness peer support group.
- Landslide Omnipedia – Unique encyclopedic content and host for Act IV.
- Netphoria – A very active discussion forum for all things Smashing Pumpkins.