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The Smashing Pumpkins this week.
Billy Corgan and company will be streaming their 2012 concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday, April 28. The show featured a front-to-back performance of the Pumpkinsâ 2012 album,
Oceania, as well as classics including âBullet with Butterfly Wings,â âTonight, Tonightâ and âCherub Rock.â
The concert will stream via the Oculus app. For more info, visit Oculus.com.
The Smashing Pumpkinsâ most recent album is
CYR, which was released last November. The band is currently working on another new record to serve as a âsequelâ to 1995âs
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000âs
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The career of William Patrick Corgan, bard of the ennui-stricken youth of the ’90s, has been many things, but predictable is not one of them. Smashing Pumpkins frontman; musical consigliere for Third Eye Blind; potential romancer of supernatural shapeshifters; noble defender of Nickelback; guy willing to piss on Radiohead; man who wants to mail you a box of food; they’re all there in his rich and distorted-guitar-laden past. The man has worn many hats in his time some metaphorically, yes, but also literally, as a quick Google search will reveal.
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This unpredictability makes for a roller-coaster ride of media coverage (including that time he was on an actual roller coaster looking all sad, ah, we had fun with that one, didn’t we), but it also means we have to look twice when, say, someone remakes “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” as an intentionally corny ’80s pop tune, taking the angsty vocal track and dropping it into the newly upbeat ver