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We currently have 4,142 articles, detailing 1,288 songs across 145 albums, 85 studio sessions and 2,084 live shows.
Album of the week
Teargarden by Kaleidyscope is not technically an album, but a collection of two EPs along with Oceania and Monuments to an Elegy. It was originally conceived as an ambitious 44-song concept album loosely inspired by the Tarot, with each song being released individually as a free download. Billy Corgan said he considers the sound a return to the Pumpkins' "psychedelic roots", and told MusicRadar it found him "looking past, present and future all at the same time and trying to have that perspective". After 34 tracks were released, the project was abandoned. Nonetheless, all components had decent chart success, especially Oceania which peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200.
Song of the day
"G.L.O.W." is a single by The Smashing Pumpkins that premiered on Chicago alternative rock station Q101 on September 29, 2008. It was the last song to feature drummer Jimmy Chamberlin until he rejoined the band in 2018. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Billy Corgan stated that, with American Gothic and "G.L.O.W.", the band "finally turned the corner... where it’s starting to feel like our music again, and not theirs, whoever 'they' might be," referring to the band's choice to release without a record label. The song peaked at #11 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.
Did you know...
- ...that Corgan originally intended for "Jellybelly" to be the first single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness?
- ...that Sharon Osbourne briefly managed The Smashing Pumpkins in late 1999?
- ...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 a music video was recorded for "I Am One" in 1992, but because the band was unhappy with the results, it wasn't released until 2001 on the Greatest Hits Video Collection?
- ...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?
In the news
January 27, 2023
- "PIGS", a song co-written/produced by Billy Corgan, engineered by the late Bjorn Thorsrud, and performed by We Are Pigs, is released.
January 26, 2023
- The Zwan single "Honestly" is featured on the soundtrack to the game Hi-Fi Rush.
January 22, 2023
- Billy Corgan performs "To Sheila" and accompanies Alanis Morissette on piano at Lisa Marie Presley's funeral.
January 18, 2023
- Sierra Swan's EP Tangerines is released on vinyl.
January 9, 2023
- The Smashing Pumpkins announce their appearance at the Bottlerock festival, taking place in May 2023.
Today in history
Releases
- 2020: Cotillions by Billy Corgan was released in the US (2LP) and Europe (2LP, CD)
- 2023: ATUM was released in Worldwide (Digital)
Live shows
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.