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Billy Corgan Doesn't Play With Pumpkins

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By Jason Hailman (CHARTattack) July 4, 2005 4:00 pm
The sight of so many goths, punks and assorted alternative types milling around The Carlu was an odd one to be sure — it's a safe bet that few in the audience had ever been to such a posh venue and the venue had likely never seen such a crowd. "Where are the fucking hors d'oeuvres?" I overheard one particularly sarcastic girl mutter...
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Billy Corgan — TheFutureEmbrace

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By Brian Wong (CHARTattack) June 21, 2005 10:22 am
The master of melancholy (er, "Mellon Collie") is resurrected as an electro-noir star with a penchant for titles with — ohmigod! — improper spacing between words. TheFutureEmbrace continues where Smashing Pumpkins songs like "Eye" and "Ava Adore" left off. The problem is that Corgan's about eight years too late and...
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I Read The News Today... For May 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 10, 2011 4:23 pm
30 Seconds To Mars say they're going to take a hiatus after their current tour and probably not do anything for "10 years." Aka... they're done. Billy Corgan says he's writing a "spiritual memoir" about his time with the Smashing Pumpkins. He's sounding more and more like the bald version of Jeff Martin these days... Bjork's launched a trippy new...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 16, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 16, 2010 3:12 pm
Silverstein have signed with Universal Music and will release a new EP, Transitions, on Dec. 7 through the label. Their next full-length album will come out in the spring. Here's a trailer: Jason Collett's fourth annual Basement Revue series will return to Toronto's Dakota Tavern on Tuesdays this December. Previous guests and performers...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 19, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 19, 2010 12:51 pm
Calgary experimental quartet Braids will release their Native Speaker debut album on Jan. 18. If you don't already know who they are, you will soon; the internets are hyping them up like crazy. —Tell All Your FriendsLightspeed Champion will release a new EP titled Bye Bye on Dec. 13 in the U.K. It'll contain a cover of The Beach Boys' "Til I Die...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 20, 2010 12:05 pm
This ought to leave you teenage ladies crying into your pillow: Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followill is engaged to model Lily Aldridge. Now maybe they can focus on making babies and Kings Of Leon can stop making shitty records (aka go away forever). —US Weekly Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has signed on to co-manage London, Ont.'s Baptized In Blood. —...
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Billy Corgan Collapses On Stage

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 23, 2010 10:30 am
Plenty of people fall on stage or pass out, but most of them remember they've fallen when they wake up. But after Billy Corgan collapsed on stage, he apparently had no memory of the event at all. Corgan was performing with The Smashing Pumpkins at the Ritz Ybor in Tampa, Fla. on Wednesday when he fell over during Mellon Collie And The...
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I Read The News Today... For June 24, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff June 24, 2010 11:34 am
Former CHARTattack editor Steve McLean has chosen tunes by Elvis Presley, AC/DC, The Guess Who, Led Zeppelin and more as some of the best songs to listen to during an earthquake. —MSN.ca Parlovr have premiered two new tunes and made them available for free download. —RCRD LBL Cancer Bats are all over the world this summer, but that won't stop...
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Billy Corgan, Jessica Simpson In Studio Doing... Something

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 14, 2010 2:09 pm
It looks like Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson could win a "shortest couple in showbiz history" award, since they reportedly got together late last year and have already called it quits due to "religious differences." (That's if you believe the Star tabloid, of course.) But they've moved on and are still working together....
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Billy Corgan's Label Releasing New Germs, Strawberry Alarm Clock Material

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) January 7, 2010 3:11 pm
Billy Corgan has five Smashing Pumpkins songs mixed for their Teargarden By Kaleidyscope "album," but he also just announced he's creating a new label with a rather eclectic roster. "We need to make sure that we have the name rights before we can announce it," states a post on the band's new blog written Wednesday (Jan. 6) by...
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Jessica Simpson Is Totally Crushing On Billy Corgan

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 7, 2009 4:08 pm
Jessica Simpson thinks Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is totally deep and reportedly has a crush on him. A close friend of Simpson's reportedly told OK! magazine she's feels a very strong "connection" with Corgan, who she met earlier this year. "She has completely fallen for Billy and his easygoing, smart attitude,...
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Billy Corgan Working On New Books, Says He Hasn't Settled Lawsuits

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 2, 2009 2:42 pm
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan says he's working on some new books. The first is a novelette with his "beautiful friend" Claire Fercak. She happens to be a French Smashing Pumpkins fan that has also written a novel called The Smashing Pumpkins/Tarantula Box Set (no, really). It's about a woman who gets trapped inside the...
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Billy Corgan's "Gothageddon" Doll Battle Available To Watch Online

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 29, 2009 3:36 pm
If you're really bored and in a serious need for some laughs, you can watch the recent Gothageddon dolls battle, which pitted puppets representing Billy Corgan and Robert Smith against each other, online. Corgan's doll and his puppet pals "wrestled" Smith, Amanda Palmer and Bauhaus' Peter Murphy in a tag-team match, but were met by a...
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Billy Corgan Vs. Swine Flu Vaccine

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 29, 2009 10:17 am
Billy Corgan recently fought against The Cure's Robert Smith, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy and Amanda Palmer in a doll wrestling battle and now he's fighting something else: the new swine flu vaccine. Corgan shared his feelings about the H1N1 vaccine in a post on his Everything From Here To There spiritual website on Tuesday (Oct. 27). He said...
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Goth Dolls Battle Features Billy Corgan, Robert Smith, Peter Murphy, Amanda Palmer In Fight

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 23, 2009 4:40 pm
Billy Corgan is a well-known fan of professional wrestling, was once rumoured to be considering a pro-wrestling career and has even appeared in a TNA ad containing a reworked version of The Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings." Corgan will put his obsession to good use on Friday (Oct. 23) night when a Billy Corgan doll (...
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Billy Corgan, David Byrne Talk About Carl Jung

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 14, 2009 3:39 pm
Few things are more exciting than listening to Billy Corgan and David Byrne talk about late psychologist Carl Jung, right? Right? The two musicians will be part of an upcoming series on Jung's Red Book at New York City's Rubin Museum Of Arts that will also feature contributions from Sarah Silverman and screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman (...
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Billy Corgan Gets Spiritual, Man

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 10, 2009 3:16 pm
Billy Corgan's descent into hippie-dom continues with the news that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman has launched a spiritual website. Everything From Here To There launched on Wednesday, and a blurb on the site describes it as a "collective of thoughts about spirituality and the greater good of life in general." "This is not a...
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Billy Corgan Goes Hippie

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 31, 2009 2:50 pm
Billy Corgan is no longer a rat in an alt.rock cage and has become a hippie. We're kidding... or are we? Corgan hasn't started wearing Birkenstocks, grown his hair out or donned a fringed leather vest. But the setlist for a two-set show by Spirits In The Sky at Santa Barbara, Calif.'s Muddy Waters Coffee House on Friday was reportedly a...
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Dave Navarro Part Of Corgan's Spirit In The Sky

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 20, 2009 12:02 pm
Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro has joined Spirits In The Sky, the Sky Saxon tribute band which also includes Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. Along with Corgan and new Pumpkins drummer Mike Byrne, the band also includes Nuggets-approved rockers The Electric Prunes' Mark Tulin, Strawberry Alarm Clock keyboardist Mark Weitz and...
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