AP - May 31, 2007
As flip-flops hit the pavement and barbecue grills ignite, some of the biggest artists are packing their bags to get the summer concert season started. This year, everyone from Justin Timberlake, Kelly...
More »AP - May 15, 2007
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced they will give nine concerts in Asheville and eight in San Francisco this summer in their first extended-stay performances in more than a decade. The band will perform...
More »Reuters - Dec 29, 2006
Pink Floyd has been all over the Billboard charts since making its debut in 1965, but this week the veteran U.K. band stakes a claim on some new territory, showing up on Hot Dance Airplay for the first...
More »E! Online - Aug 18, 2006
Smashing Pumpkins fans, get ready to be infinitely happy. Fourteen long months after founder and frontman Billy Corgan announced, in a full-page Chicago newspaper ad, that he was planning to reform...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jun 28, 2006
Billy Corgan has moved in with Courtney Love, according to reports. The pair, who have been friends for some time and are understood to be working on material for Courtney s new solo album, are apparently...
More »E! Online - Mar 31, 2006
Nirvana s Smells Like Teen Spirit --coming soon to a soap ad near you? So far Courtney Love is ruling that out, but chances are we ll be hearing more of the seminal grunge band s music in unexpected...
More »Reuters - Feb 26, 2006
The surviving members of grunge rock band Alice In Chains are hitting the road this summer for the first time since frontman Layne Staley s death from a drug overdose in 2002. With Staley, Alice In...
More »E! Online - Feb 4, 2006
A clean and sober Courtney Love is ready to roll. And rock. The widow of Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain told a Los Angeles court Friday, per reports, that she feel[s] great, is spending her days playing...
More »Reuters - Jan 30, 2006
Melissa Auf Der Maur is recording hew new album with the help of some old friends, including former Smashing Pumpkins bandmate Billy Corgan. After spending most of last year writing material, Auf Der...
More »AP - Aug 17, 2005
There s something to be said about a heavy, dark alt-metal band releasing an album with a hopeful title and even more hopeful lyrics. But that s what Taproot does — the unexpected. They did it...
More »E! Online - Jun 29, 2005
Coldplay still owns the summer s most sizzling album. And Carrie Underwood still owns Bo Bice. After going selling more than 1 million copies in its first two weeks, Coldplay s X&Y pulled the trifecta...
More »AP - Jun 22, 2005
All things being perfect, Billy Corgan would never have released a solo album. All things being perfect, Billy Corgan still would have been churning out hits as part of the seminal 90s angst-rock band...
More »E! Online - Jun 21, 2005
Today is the greatest day for fans of the Smashing Pumpkins. Taking out full page ads in Tuesday s Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, Billy Corgan announced plans to reform his seminal alt-rock...
More »AP - Jun 21, 2005
On the same day Billy Corgan released his first solo album, he revealed that he wants to reunite his band, The Smashing Pumpkins. For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose...
More »Reuters - Jun 21, 2005
Singer Billy Corgan said on Tuesday he plans to revive The Smashing Pumpkins, his Grammy-winning band which broke up in 2000 after more than a decade of blending alternative rock with the avant-garde....
More »AP - Jan 26, 2005
In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Arthur Rimbaud...
More »AP - Jan 22, 2005
Bob Dylan , the unofficial poet laureate of the rock n roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare...
More »Reuters - Jan 21, 2005
Breaking into film composing is often more difficult than getting a record deal. The same dozen or so top composers get the lion s share of the A-list films, and any newcomer must compete with an array...
More »Reuters - Dec 15, 2004
A trip to The Red Light District scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday. The Atlanta rapper/actor s fourth Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »AP - Oct 18, 2004
CHICAGO (AP) — Billy Corgan was preparing to perform with a children s chorus at a charity event when the host joked that the youngsters could join him on tour someday. Well, yeah, if you look...
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