Smashing Pumpkins

It’s their first album with Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin all in the band in 18 years, and as mentioned, it was recorded with Rick Rubin.

The song was co-produced by Rick Rubin and it’s reportedly off the long-talked-about ”reunion” album that Rubin is working with them on.

This week’s edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU, like usual, features a mix of the brand new, the kinda new and the classic — ripped from the headlines of this very blog! We played tracks from My Bloody Valentine, Cornershop, Beach House, St. Vincent, Hot Snakes, Television, Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on […]

Smashing Pumpkins’ 30th anniversary show in NJ was a guest-filled affair, with appearances from Courtney Love, Chino Moreno, Dave Keuning and Mark Stoermer of The Killers, Peter Hook, Davey Havok, and, for whatever reason, Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath.

The Pumpkins did their own songs with Chino Moreno (Deftones) and Killers members; Hole songs and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” with Courtney; Joy Division/New Order songs with Peter Hook, Davey Havok (AFI), and Courtney; and Sugar Ray and Judas Priest with Mark McGrath.

Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin & co played a three-hour set filled with classics, a few covers, and video interludes by Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath.

”I remember one of the first times I met Kevin Shields, he said ‘I like that song ‘Daydream,’ [and I said] ‘yeah I wonder why because I ripped it off of you.’”

It will also, for some reason, feature Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath.

Compared to the poppy, new wavey sounds of 2015’s Pagans In Vegas, ”Dark Saturday” is more of a Yeah Yeah Yeahs-y riff rocker.

They also covered David Bowie’s ”Space Oddity” and played tons of classics.