Billy Corgan

Smashing Pumpkins Move to SF, Fight with Seattle

Smashing Pumpkins File Lawsuit Against Virgin Records

Living Without LeRoy

With her new memoir, literary co-hoaxer Savannah Knoop steps out of JT LeRoy's shadow. But can she step out of Laura Albert's?

Billy and His Rotting Fruit

The Smashing Pumpkins (Reprise)

Riding the Fader

The cult of Chavez gets another round

Misc. Reviews: Lindon Kwesi Johnson

Di Great Revalueshanary

Pajo

Pajo

Music Highlights

Bands reunited, sock-stuffing legends, and chanteuses from Charo to Chaka? It could only mean summer sounds in the Bay Area!

House of Tudor

A "Dark Kabaret," Buy Nothing Day, synth love, and the ever-fierce Marianne Faithfull

The Frogs

Racially Yours (Four Alarm)

The The

NakedSelf

House of Tudor

NakedSelf

Riff Raff

NakedSelf

Reviews

NakedSelf

Love Hate

Nick Broomfield's Courtney problem

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Riff Raff

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Suspicious Minds

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

In Store w/ Recycled Records, Where Vinyl Killed the CD Star

​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

The Integratron's Psychedelic Musical Experience in the SoCal Desert

​Last week I took a big break from Internets and everything, really, to head down to Joshua Tree. But the one thing I couldn't stay away from was music, especially music that was performed in a dome built by a man who believed in aliens and located his acoustically-perfect creation in some high-en ... More >>

Hole returns amid all that Courtney confusion

​Last week I took a big break from Internets and everything, really, to head down to Joshua Tree. But the one thing I couldn't stay away from was music, especially music that was performed in a dome built by a man who believed in aliens and located his acoustically-perfect creation in some high-en ... More >>

Top 10 Weirdest Recent Couples in Music

We found out last week, from a variety of tabloidy sources, that 50 Cent and Chelsea Handler are currently -- well, not exactly hooking up, but having intimate conversations in a bar and talking about maybe hooking up. W.T.F. people? We'd like to take this opportunity to pat Chelsea on the back for ... More >>

Live 105's Not So Silent Night: Smashing Pumpkins, My Chemical Romance, Phoenix, the Black Keys

​If the stink of dirty '90s flannel wasn't already wafting off this year in music, hell, it sure is now. Playing next month at Debaser Live 105's Not So Silent Night concert is none other than Smashing Pumpkins -- the four-person presentation of Billy Corgan's bald vanity that lives on, zombie-lik ... More >>

Hear a New Smashing Pumpkins Song, "Owata," and Ponder Billy Corgan's Cheerful Oblivion

Kristin BurnsHe wants you to believe.​It wouldn't be a full-on '90s revival without an actual '90s band trying to get in on the party by releasing music looong after its prime. So who's making the most voluminous attempt? Naturally, it's the Smashing Pumpkins -- or, as we prefer to think of th ... More >>

One '90s Reunion That Won't Happen: The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins in 1990. Sigh.​ This '90s revival thing is off the hook. Even Soundgarden is getting back together after 14 years to drive around the U.S. and blast old, loud-ass songs like "Spoonman" and "Fell on Black Days" to apparently eager audiences. But there's one big '90s rock ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

The Smashing Pumpkins in 1990. Sigh.​ This '90s revival thing is off the hook. Even Soundgarden is getting back together after 14 years to drive around the U.S. and blast old, loud-ass songs like "Spoonman" and "Fell on Black Days" to apparently eager audiences. But there's one big '90s rock ... More >>

Long Live the Triptych: Five Great Series of Three Rock Songs

In visual art, it's called a triptych -- a piece divided into three connected sections or panels. The individual panels could, in theory, stand on their own, but each adds meaning and significance to the other two, creating a single work that is more than the sum of its parts. We don't have a name ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Men in Grunge

Sure, it was the era of long, dirty hair and long johns worn to the bar -- but '90s grunge sure did throw up some eye candy. Here, to honor the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty, are the top 10 hottest men of grunge. (Tomorrow, we'll ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Women in Grunge

Sure, the grunge era produced its fair share of long-haired, flannel-loving, Converse-wearing male beefcake. But early '90s rock also made famous a bunch of strong-minded, talented -- and really, really sexy -- female rockers. As Nirvana's Nevermind turns 20 this week, and Pearl Jam celebrates two d ... More >>

Friday: Smashing Pumpkins Press on with New Faces and New Songs at the Fox Theater

Christopher VictorioSmashing Pumpkins at the Fox Friday night. ​ Smashing Pumpkins Oct. 7, 2011 Fox Theater Better than: Fasting. Perhaps we shouldn't use Friday night's Jewish holiday for the purposes of a rock concert review, but Billy Corgan has a lot he should probably be atoning for: be ... More >>