Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds summer tour 2019 with special guests AFI

Smashing Pumpkins And Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Announce Tour

Smashing Pumpkins And Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Announce Tour The Smashing Pumpkins will tour with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds around North America during August 2019. AFI will support them during the summer tour. Smashing Pumpkins’ founding members Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin reunited in 2018 and are heading out on the tour together. The 90’s alt-rock pioneers play both old and…

Billy Corgan Reunited With Stolen ‘Gish’ Guitar

Billy Corgan Reunited With Stolen ‘Gish’ Guitar

Billy Corgan’s guitar was stolen a few minutes after the Smashing Pumpkins left the stage at Detroit’s Saint Andrew’s Hall in June 1992. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman offered a $10,000 reward for returning his guitar, a Fender Stratocaster. Billy Corgan doubled the offer a year later. “I just wanted the guitar back,” he said 27 years ago. “I wanted the person to cough the thing…

Billy Corgan poses for PAWS Chicago magazine cover

Smashing Pumpkins sell “F*ck You Anderson Cooper” T-shirts after a war of words

Billy Corgan, the bald frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins, appeared on the cover of the summer 2014 issue of PAWS Chicago cuddling his two black cats – Sammi and Mr. Thom – who were both adopted from PAWS. The annual magazine is distributed by the adoption center/no-kill organization also called PAWS Chicago. The rock star, 47, has had a history with the animal shelter organization…