Let’s be clear: this isn’t a Smashing Pumpkins record. When Billy Corgan took out two full-page ads in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times back in 2005 proclaiming the rebirth of the ...

If you paid attention to the critics' reactions to Zeitgeist when it came out back in 2007, there's a good chance you skipped it altogether. But a decade later, the Smashing Pumpkins' comeback album ...

The Smashing Pumpkins have enlisted artist Shepard Fairey to create the artwork for their first album in seven years, "Zeitgeist," due July 10 via Martha's Music/Reprise. The red-dominated cover… By ...

The Smashing Pumpkins have settled on the track list for "Zeitgeist," the first album since 2000. As previously reported, the album is due July 7 via Martha's Music/Reprise. A first single has yet to… ...

In the year of the comebacks, it was the Pumpkins one which got any self-respecting alternative rocker really excited. It's different to most of the others, like The Police, and The Eagles (CASH COWS!

“I don’t wanna be alone,” sings Billy Corgan on “Tarantula,” the first single from the first Smashing Pumpkins album since 2000’s There’s no Iha on Zeitgeist, nor any trace of bassist D’Arcy Wretzky: ...

It would be difficult to greet 'Zeitgeist' without a degree of apprehension. After all, since The Smashing Pumpkins collapsed in an ugly tangle of infighting and highly publicized drug addictions in ...

Billy Corgan is not an easy man to like, but from time to time in his career he's made some pretty good records. I should make it clear from the start that I'm hardly a Smashing Pumpkins obsessive: I ...

Let's face it Gish is one of the greatest rock albums of the past two decades. Period. The bottom-line is that when the Smashing Pumpkins broke onto the scene back in the early '90s they, along with ...

I don’t know about you, but it still scares the poop out of me. Two measures of Jimmy Chamberlain’s yeomanic drumming collide with one hard yank of Billy Corgan’s E string and the demons of Hell arise ...

After seven long years of creative drought and a couple of less-than-remarkable records to prove it, it is truly exhilarating to actually be holding a brand new Smashing Pumpkins album in my hands ...