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We currently have 4,156 articles, detailing 1,291 songs across 145 albums, 85 studio sessions and 2,093 live shows.
Album of the week
Gish is the debut studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins. Frontman Billy Corgan has variously described Gish as a "very spiritual album" and "an album about spiritual ascension". Gish received positive reviews from critics, and was eventually certified platinum (one million copies shipped) by the RIAA. On April 1, 2019 Rolling Stone magazine ranked Gish the 32nd greatest grunge album of all time.
Song of the day
At nearly 10 minutes duration, "Glass and the Ghost Children" is the longest track on The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God. The middle section features various clips from Machina II's "Le Deux Machina". Machina served as a concept album about rock star named Zero (based on the public persona of Billy Corgan) hearing the voice of God, renaming himself Glass, and renaming his band The Machines of God. Fans of the band were referred to as the "Ghost Children".
Did you know...
- ...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 the In Ashes animated series was named after Sumerian Records CEO, Ash Avildsen? The joke was that by signing with Sumerian Records, The Smashing Pumpkins and Sumerian are "going to go up in flames … and end up in ashes."
- ...that briefly there was belief that one of the girls on the cover of Siamese Dream was actually former bassist Nicole Fiorentino? The actual girls were later found and reunited in 2018.
- ...that the renowned Gish guitar (stolen in 1991 and returned to Corgan 27 years later), was sold to Corgan by Jimmy Chamberlin, even though it wasn't his to sell?
- ...that Billy Corgan briefly worked with basketball superstar and rapper Shaquille O'Neal? Corgan began work on a track loosely inspired by Dr. Dre, but the collaboration fell through. The drumbeats that survived were used in "Eye", which appeared on the Lost Highway soundtrack.
In the news
March 10, 2023
- Jimmy Chamberlin is interviewed by Beat.
March 1, 2023
- Billy Corgan is interviewed by Creem.
February 22, 2023
- The Smashing Pumpkins will play an intimate show as part of BottleRock AfterDark on May 25, 2023.
February 1, 2023
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce that The World Is a Vampire festival will see the band return to Australia for the first time since 2015 for a 10-date run.
Today in history
Releases
- 1994: "Disarm" was released in the UK (CD 2)
Live shows
- 2001: (The Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra featuring Billy Corgan) Metro; Chicago, IL, US – The Third Waltz benefit show
- 2003: (Zwan) The Pageant; St. Louis, MO, US
- 2008: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Vector Arena; Auckland, NZ
- 2015: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Hipódromo de San Isidro; San Isidro, AR [Lollapalooza Argentina]
- 2016: (The Smashing Pumpkins) Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall; Portland, OR, US – First show of 2016's In Plainsong tour; live debuts of "Saturnine", "Identify", "Malibu" and others
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.