Plus: The Bobby Lees, Khruangbin, Grace Cummings, Placebo, The Kills, Carcass, Son Lux, Tré Burt & Joules Satyr, Lollapalooza, and more tour and festival news.
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.
Slash is playing Hammerstein Ballroom on September 18 with Myles Kennedy and Foxy Shazam. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
With all the '90s nostalgia that goes on, here's a bit that we might have been okay with not coming back...