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“The fact that he said he can’t sing, I think, disproves that we’re related, ’cause I’m not funny": Billy Corgan comes face to face with comedian Bill Burr and admits that he probably isn't his half brother after all

Burr meets the Smashing Pumpkins frontman and proves eager to scotch Corgan's theory that they're brothers

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“The loss overall is awful and unspeakable”: Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and Primus guitarist Larry ‘Ler’ LaLonde among thousands who have lost homes in L.A. wildfires

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and Anthrax’s Scott Ian share their first-hand experience of the devastating impact of one of the biggest natural disasters in Los Angeles’ history

Guitar World

Watch Billy Corgan sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame for 40,000 fans in an icy stadium in Chicago

Smashing Pumpkins provided the entertainment at this year's hockey Winter Classic

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“I never thought little ol’ 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in the bedroom would amount to this moment”: After 10,000 applicants, Kiki Wong landed the Smashing Pumpkins guitarist gig

2024 Year in Review: Billy Corgan and co hosted the biggest guitarist search of the year – and there could only be one winner

Guitar World

“I don’t think James would rip anything off from me, but the first time I heard that song, I was like, ‘That’s awfully close’”: Billy Corgan reckons this Metallica track sounds suspiciously similar to a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut

Corgan says Hetfield has “written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs” of all time, but one cut from 1997 sounds awfully familiar...

Guitar World

“He turned it up, and it was uncontrollable”: Eddie Van Halen on the time Billy Corgan played through his rig – and why his setup shocked the Smashing Pumpkins frontman

Finding EVH's rig almost impossible to wrangle, Corgan figured, mistakenly, that there was something he could quickly disable to tame it

Guitar World

“She’s brilliant at what she does. She’s a true artist": Billy Corgan might not be a fan of pop music, but he’s got a lot of respect for Chappell Roan

“I tend to look at the talent and the brilliance of what the artist is trying to put together"

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“This band has allowed me to diversify my playing 10-fold. I would consider myself a one-trick pony prior to joining”: Kiki Wong on how playing with Smashing Pumpkins has made her a better guitar player

From bedroom riffing with a Line 6 Spider to playing through tube amps in stadiums, Wong says her time in the band has opened her eyes to a whole new world of tone

Guitar World

“Allows guitarists to use drop tuning while maintaining the same exact feel and comfort of a standard scale guitar”: Reverend Billy Corgan Signature Drop Z review

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman's latest signature collab with Reverend is built for drop tunings. Is this the ultimate grunge machine?

Guitar World

"I’m not making this up. There is no joke in this”: Billy Corgan thinks that comedian Bill Burr might be his half brother, but an unearthed video suggests that Burr was no great fan of The Smashing Pumpkins

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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan reveals he might be related to comedian Bill Burr

Corgan claims Burr has an uncanny resemblance to his own father

The Independent UK

“I only picked up guitar in the first place to impress my father. I didn’t have a true desire to play that great players like Joe Bonamassa did”: Billy Corgan opens up on his guitar insecurities and being cast as the Smashing Pumpkins’ “big, bad Dracula”

On Aghori Mhori Mei, the Smashing Pumpkins recapture the vibe, feel and tones of their classic early ’90s LPs. Corgan explains how, why – and what took them so long

Guitar World

Courtney Love: 'I may not love Taylor Swift musically, but her angry lyrics resonate with me'

Courtney Love tells us about her new collaboration with 070 Shake... and gives a few thoughts on Lamar, Taylor Swift, Billy Corgan, Lana Del Rey, PJ Harvey and more...

Evening Standard

“Billy Corgan literally said he wanted the ‘Sabbath note.’ He wanted that midrange that Tony Iommi has that really cuts through”: Reverend Guitars’ founders on their wild signature collabs with Smashing Pumpkins, Vernon Reid and Reeves Gabrels

Reverend is fast becoming the go-to brand for artists looking for something different. Ken Haas and Joe Naylor explain what it takes to make an artist's dreams come true...

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“I’d like to win these lyrics because I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit and I’d love to put that on my wall”: Billy Corgan enters auction of handwritten lyrics of Courtney Love’s song... about him

He’s in it to win it, he claims

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“I’m in it to win it.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan enters charity raffle to win Courtney Love's hand-written lyrics for Hole's Violet, a song inspired by Billy Corgan, “a guy I know a little bit about”

Want to beat Billy Corgan to the ownership of lyrics about Billy Corgan, and help a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra at the same time? Of course you do

MusicRadar

“In 5 minutes, I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been a Siamese Dream song in ‘92”: Billy Corgan on how he could write old Pumpkins' songs any time, if he wanted

He’s “just looking for something just a little bit new” Corgan says

Louder

“She’s a furious texter. It’s a text storm!”: Billy Corgan on where his love-hate relationship with Courtney Love is currently at

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman also looked back to working with the Hole singer on some of her band's biggest hits

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“You have these silly lists that come out about the greatest guitar players; I usually don’t even make them... or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around”: Billy Corgan feels he’s underrated as a guitarist

Billy Corgan thinks he's under-rated as a guitarist

Guitar World

“When I worked with Tony Iommi, I had an epiphany... he sounded like him no matter what amp you’ve got him on”: Billy Corgan on how watching Iommi taught him the key to the playing style of Eddie Van Halen

As Corgan explains, the distinctive aspect he observed of the ’Sabbath great, also shaped his understanding of players like Eddie Van Halen and Uli Jon Roth

Guitar World

“I haven't used the Big Muff since 1993. I don’t use that many pedals anymore, but I use them live”: Billy Corgan shares his pedalboard secrets, including the $1,000 pedal he stole from his dad

The Smashing Pumpkins bandleader reveals that though his relationship with guitar effects has changed over the years, there's still a place in his heart for them, especially the Warm Audio Warmdrive

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Billy Corgan contemplated giving up the guitar after his father's death

Billy Corgan considered giving up the guitar after his father's death.

Guitar World

“These silly lists come out about the greatest guitar players – I usually don’t make those lists, or they’ll put me behind somebody who I could play circles around”: Billy Corgan on why he thinks he’s still under-appreciated as a guitarist

The creative force behind Smashing Pumpkins is often overlooked in the 'greatest guitarists of all time' conversation

Guitar World

“I don’t normally enjoy co-writes, but when Billy Corgan says he wants to work on your stuff, you say yes”: Rosie Bones on her guitar chemistry with Carmen Vandenberg, Corgan collabs – and why Bones UK doesn’t need a bassist

Augmenting the rock with electronic elements, Bones UK are dragging it into the future, but as frontwoman Rosie explains, they have one foot in the past, with an old-school blues cat playing lead

The Guardian - AU

Amyl and the Sniffers take on the world: ‘If you don’t like us, then that’s on you’

The Australian punk band has been praised by Billy Corgan and Karen O for their explosive live act and uncompromising politics. Their new album is a sonic evolution – but the scrappy spirit remains

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