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14 hrs ago | Stereogum

Backwards Clock Society @ The Echoplex, Los Angeles

Much as Billy Corgan has made a sport of testing Smashing Pumpkins fans' limits this past year, last night's benefit for one-time Smashing Pumpkins Fan Club chief Laura Ann Marusa is a reminder that he really does appreciate those that appreciate him.

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Related Topix: Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock, Albert Hammond

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Because what we really need is another celebrity-laced vaccine controversy

If you're considering getting vaccinated against the H1N1 flu strain, there's something you should know: Billy Corgan wouldn't. The Smashing Pumpkins' frontman recently wrote on his blog Everything From Here to There: "I for one will not be taking the vaccine.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Columbia Spectator

Superfoods: Smashing Pumpkins

Following the uncontrolled gluttony of Halloween, the most urgent issue for many trick-or-treaters is not a swelling waistline; rather, the inevitable surplus of pumpkin leaves single parents, students, and professional partiers all at a loss.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Halloween, Fruits, Dining

Sat Nov 07, 2009

PC Magazine

Judge Blocks BlueBeat Beatles MP3s

Say goodbye to those free streams of re-mastered Beatles tunes. A California district judge on Thursday ordered BlueBeat.com to remove any infringing content from its Web site.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Cognitive Daily

Another celebrity anti-vaccine moron: Billy Corgan

" A statement of fact cannot be insolent ." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory Who is Orac? Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's ...

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Related Topix: Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Homeopathy

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Victoria Star

Opening acts named

Promoter Gillett Entertainment Group of Montreal announced the opening acts this week for three shows coming soon to Moncton.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Stone Temple Pilots

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Mayo News

MUSIC Irish band Seneca line up Castlebar gig

Seneca have been compared to Snow Patrol, Coldplay and the Smashing Pumpkins. Breaffy-born frontman Rob Hope speaks to Edwin McGreal about their US tour and more THERE'S a good chance you've never heard of Seneca.

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Related Topix: Seneca, Pop/Rock, Travel, Ireland Travel

Eye Weekly

Required Reading: October 29, 2009

If it's fast and cheap, it won't be good. If it's cheap and good, it won't be fast.

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Related Topix: Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock, Arts, Poetry

Sat Oct 31, 2009

WWFX-FM Worcester

The Rock History Report for October 31st, 2009

1995 - Alice in Chains released their self-titled album on vinyl. It would not be released on CD or cassette until November 7 of that year.

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Related Topix: Samhain, Life, Holidays, Kiss, Pop/Rock, Halloween

Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Sandspur

The death of the CD and rise of the MP3

BITE THIS: Apple's iPod remains the largest selling player worldwide with over 220,000,000 sold.

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Related Topix: Music Players, Media Players, iPod, Pop/Rock, MP3 Players, Electronics

Thu Oct 29, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Award Winning Blind Guitarist Joey Stuckey to Release New Jazz Ep

You can't travel down south without hearing someone rave about guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, radio and TV personality Joey Stuckey, who holds the distinction of being the Official Ambassador of Music for Macon, Georgia .

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Related Topix: Macon Metro, Macon, GA, Jeff Beck, Pop/Rock, Wes Montgomery, Jazz, Mel Torme

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Billy Corgan: Swine flu was 'created by man'

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman says the H1N1 virus is part of a conspiracy cooked up by Barack Obama to scare us all.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Pop/Rock, Billy Corgan, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Filter-Mag

Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg Out...

Brothers and sisters, sound the sirens. Wolfmother 's Cosmic Egg is finally in stores .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, My Bloody Valentine, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX

Fri Oct 23, 2009

ChartAttack

Goth Dolls Battle Features Billy Corgan, Robert Smith, Peter Murphy, Amanda Palmer In Fight

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 night when a Billy Corgan doll wrestles a Robert Smith ...

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Related Topix: Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Blogdowntown

Billy Corgan Participating in Benefit Show for Injured Redwood Bartender

Laura Ann Masura, a musician and bartender at Downtown's Redwood Bar and Grill, was injured in September when her motorcycle was hit by a car on the PCH.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Fountains of Wayne

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Brookale Public Radio

Smashing Pumpkins Hold Auction to Benefit Former Fan Club Head

LOS ANGELES - Smashing Pumpkins are auctioning off some of their early instruments to help one of their early supporters.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Ultimate-guitar.com

Billy Corgan, Syd Straw, The Posies And Califone To Play Benefit Concert [News]

Dozens of musicians will perform a benefit concert Sunday November 8 at the Echoplex in Echo Park for fellow musician Laura Ann Masura .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Posies, Billy Corgan

Tue Oct 20, 2009

TheCelebrityCafe

Free Album Giveaway by the Pumpkins is simply Smashing

Home : Features : Music : Free Album Giveaway by the Pumpkins is simply Smashing Free Album Giveaway by the Pumpkins is simply Smashing 20-Oct-2009 Written by: Robyn Chelsea-Seifert Corgan readies 'Teagarden by Kaleidyscope' for Halloween release date.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Halloween, Pop/Rock

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Digital Spy

Corgan: 'I wasn't inspired by Radiohead'

Billy Corgan has reportedly insisted that he wasn't inspired by other artists to release his album free of charge.

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Related Topix: Billy Corgan, Pop/Rock

Sun Oct 18, 2009

WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

Smashing Pumpkins

It's the second Annual Harvest Fest in Stillwater. The event celebrates the bounty of autumn.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Offbeat

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