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  Billy Corgan Just Started Writing the Smashing Pumpkins Album He Started Months Ago

  March 25, 2013 – Billy Corgan is taking a break from hocking furniture and serving tea to write the next Smashing Pumpkins record."Excited to announce today's our 1st official day of writing new SP album," Corgan tweeted Monday (March 25). …
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  WTF Is Billy Corgan Doing in This Ridiculous Furniture Commercial?

  February 20, 2013 – At a certain point, Billy Corgan's world became less like a vampire and more like an oyster stuffed with costume pearls. He's been a tea madame, a freelance lumberjack, a music critic, a cult leader, Mr. Tila Tequila and, perhaps best of all, a pro wrestling commissioner. …
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  Billy Corgan Sued For Smashing ... Tree

  October 2, 2012 – Today is not the greatest day Billy Corgan's ever known. The Smashing Pumpkins founder is being hauled to court after a eucalyptus tree on Corgan's Beverly Hills property collapsed during a storm onto the home of his famous neighbors Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayhart, TMZ reports. Gayhart — who was pregnant when the crash happened last year — was nearly killed as she dodged live wires to evacuate her flooding home, documents filed at L.A. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Ask Fans to Imagine What a 'Glissandra' Looks Like

  May 30, 2012 – Smashing Pumpkins might still have an uneasy relationship with technology, but for their latest album Oceania (due June 19 via EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution), they're going whole-hog on a social media campaign that'll take place over the three weeks leading up to the LP's release. Fans are being asked to create and share artwork for each of the album's 13 songs. …
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  Ladyhawke Reveals What Gave Her So Much 'Anxiety'

  May 15, 2012 – It's been a long time since we last heard from Ladyhawke. The New Zealand synth-popper soared onto our radar back in 2009 with her supremely catchy self-titled debut, which was strong enough for us to peg her as one to watch. But two years of touring kept Ladyhawke (real name: Philippa Brown) out of the studio. When she finally was ready to record, she had to deal with sophomore-effort expectations. …
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  M83 Modeled Double-Disc 'Dreaming' on Pumpkins Album

  May 2, 2012 – M83's Anthony Gonzalez is giving Billy Corgan one less thing to complain about (or at least he's trying, anyway). …
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  Disarm: Smashing Pumpkins Return to EMI for 'Oceania'

  March 27, 2012 – "Even though I pronounced the album dead, I guess I still wanna do another one," Billy Corgan said this past fall when he announced the Smashing Pumpkins's upcoming Oceania. And now, even though he all but pronounced the major label system deceased, Corgan's band has signed a deal with EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution to release Oceania throughout most of the world on June 19. …
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  Billy Corgan Calls New Artists 'Strippers' in SXSW Interview

  March 13, 2012 – Billy Corgan has never been taken for a peaceful man (actually, we're reminded every few months or so he is, in fact, quite unsatisfied), so his harumphy, old-rock-guard appearances at SXSW Interactive yesterday were no surprise. …
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  Billy Corgan Details 'Unique' New Pumpkins LP

  September 23, 2011 – It may sound surprising, but it's a great time to be a Smashing Pumpkins fan -- Billy Corgan is only becoming more and more prolific with age. The 44-year-old singer-guitarist just unveiled the tracklist for Oceania, the latest project of many for the revamped Smashing Pumpkins. Corgan took to Twitter Friday morning to say that Oceania, SP's ninth album (due in late November), will run "approx 60 minutes and 9 seconds" over 13 songs. …
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  Corgan Launches Smashing Pumpkins Record Club

  September 1, 2011 – In the midst of recording Smashing Pumpkins' Oceania album and prepping for a fall tour, Billy Corgan has another project in the works: a record club, dubbed SPRC, which will roll out Pumpkins' rarities online. Corgan announced the project in a video posted on the band's YouTube channel, which you can watch below. …
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