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We currently have 4,324 articles, detailing 1,319 songs across 149 albums, 85 studio sessions and 2,177 live shows.
Album of the week
Oceania is the eighth studio album from The Smashing Pumpkins, released in June 2012. Produced by Billy Corgan and Bjorn Thorsrud, the album forms part of the band's 34-track project album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Corgan said the album is partly about "people struggling to find a social identity in today's fast-paced, technology-rich culture", adding "I think alienation seems to be the key theme – alienation in love and alienation in culture". The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Independent Albums chart. A live performance of the album, Oceania: Live in NYC, was released in September, 2013.
Song of the day
"Landslide" is an acoustic arrangement of the Stevie Nicks song that The Smashing Pumpkins covered on the Pisces Iscariot compilation. It went on to become one of the band's most-beloved tracks and even had the approval of Nicks herself. "There's nothing more pleasing to a songwriter than [someone else] doing one of their songs. ['Landslide'] also led me to being friends with Billy [Corgan] and the possibility that we'll work together," she said of Corgan, though a collaboration never materialized. The song was a hit, peaking at #3 on the US Modern Rock Tracks and at #30 on the US Airplay charts.
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 Smashing Pumpkins contributed to a various artists compilation album that parodied the hideous 70's and 80's K-tel compilations? Each participating band was to cover an obscure 70s song. The Pumpkins went with "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
- ...that Corgan originally intended for "Jellybelly" to be the first single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness?
- ...that the guitar solo on "Siva" is the band's first use of the Big Muff pedal that was famously used on Siamese Dream?
- ...that Gish was named after silent film icon Lillian Gish? In an interview, Corgan said his grandmother told him "one of the biggest things that ever happened was when Lillian Gish rode through town on a train".
In the news
April 17, 2024
- Jeff Schroeder announces his new project Glass Bow with Vice Cooler, Andrea Wasse and Emily Retsas. They open up for Blushing on July 6.
April 12, 2024
- Ginger Pooley is announced as touring bassist for Garbage.
April 1, 2024
- The Smashing Pumpkins adds new headlining North American shows to the 2024 The World Is A Vampire tour with Pvris and The Glorious Sons.
March 29, 2024
- It is announced that Billy Corgan will have his own podcast on Bill Maher's Club Random network.
Today in history April 20
Releases
- 2013: No Alternative by Various artists was released in the US (2 LP (numbered))
Charts
- 1996: "1979" peaked at #38 on the France (SNEP) songs chart
Live shows
- 1996: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Terminal 1; Munich, DE
- 2006: (Vanessa And The O's featuring James Iha) Maroquinerie; Paris, FR
- 2009: (Tinted Windows) Mercury Lounge; New York, NY, US
- 2010: (The Smashing Pumpkins) NBC Studios (Burbank); Burbank, CA, US – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with Linda Strawberry on keys and a 9-piece choir
- 2016: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Cullen Performance Hall; Houston, TX, 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.