Let’s say you were born in 1999. And let’s also say you’re interested in learning about the rise and fall of 1990s alternative rock. Naturally, you brush up with some informative Google searches. Then ...

Perhaps you recall Zwan, the band that Billy Corgan briefly led after the temporary end of the Smashing Pumpkins. For Zwan, Corgan recruited his longtime Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin alongside ...

The last time Billy Corgan was in Houston, he was clocking his final hours with the dynamic but musically disjointed Smashing Pumpkins. After a decade with the rock band he thought would change the ...

Where: The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. Tickets: $22.50. Rating (out of 5 stars): *** 1/2. "Baby, we were born to come together." Simple as the lyric might have been, it succinctly told the story of ...

By: JT LeRoySmashing Pumpkins were one of the biggest modern-rock bands ofthe ’90s, but leader Billy Corgan never seemed too happy,constantly battling the media, grunge fans, even his own ...

Billy Corgan's post-Smashing Pumpkins band Zwan has broken up, he told Chicago's WGN this morning (Sept. 15). "A couple of people asked me, 'Why didn't you tell anybody?' I'm sort of out of the… By ...

First, Billy Corgan canceled the European leg of Zwan’s tour due to “family matters.” Next, he cancels Zwan altogether, because it didn’t matter like a family. “Our attitude in the Pumpkins was, it ...

Opening Acts: Queens of the Stone Age When: March 29th, 2003. 7:30 P.M. Where: Towson Center, Towson University. Towson, MD. Ticket Price: $30.00 (before the ridiculous extra fees) There are tons of ...

Maybe GRUNGE really is back. Or perhaps it just stepped outside for a smoke. For five years. And found its way back into the building again through a side door after bribing the security guard with a ...