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The 1996 MTV Video Music Awards came at a very difficult time for the Smashing Pumpkins .

In an interview for a documentary produced by Alex Jones, Mike Judge, the man behind 1990s classics "Beavis and Butthead" and "Office Space," said Michael Moore's 2002 documentary "Bowling for Columbine" had the opposite of its intended effect, convincing him that gun control was not a good idea.

Al Murray, 45, is best known for his boozy comic creation The Pub Landlord. He is on tour and about to start presenting his own radio show on Planet Rock.

On their debut album The Creep Is Born, New Jersey quartet Creeptones conjure up a fuzzed-out sound that's got Smashing Pumpkins-size bombast and Queens of the Stone Age-esque swagger to spare.

This last weekend, no less than 48 bands piledrove their way into a 3-day music festival in Columbus, Oh.

Music's 3Rs 05.20.13: Tempted By The Dumb of Another Posted by Sean Comer on 05.20.2013 From Kanye West debuting new songs on SNL and Bill Wyman being done with the Rolling Stones to Smashing Pumpkins covering "Space Oddity," Beyonce's pregnancy rumors and more, 411's Sean Comer breaks down the Right, the wRong and the Ridiculous from the week in ... (more)

Lajon Witherspoon, lead vocalist of Sevendust, gets the Rock on the Range crowd pumped up on the final day.

A recently-reinforced Korn is in Columbus, Ohio today to help kick off this year's Rock on the Range festival.

In this episode of Sidebar, The Columbus Dispatch 's podcast on Columbus-focused events, movies, music, dining and more... Dispatch staffers Susannah Elliott, Kevin Joy and Ally Manning discuss Smashing Pumpkins, smashing tomatoes, Lou Seal's gender and the city's identity crisis.

Sure, the title of this post hints otherwise, but I assure you -- the Smashing Pumpkins broke up in Chicago, on December 2, 2000.

The headliners of this year's Rock on the Range festival share a common thread: All hit their peaks in the 1990s and have since morphed, mourned or paused before carrying on.

On May 12th, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted the first music video recorded in space , appropriately covering the David Bowie classic "Space Oddity" aboard the International Space Station.

In 2000, a fifteen-year old Gavin persuaded his Dad to buy him a ticket to see the Smashing Pumpkins on their farewell tour.

Smashing Pumpkins have covered David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' - click at the top of the page to watch.

Smashing Pumpkins founder and frontman Billy Corgan is the latest star to speak out against the cruel practice of dehorning cattle.

Local festivals are all over the metro area this weekend. Fort Worth Music Festival , Wildflower! Festiva l in Richardson, and Taste Addison will all be presenting musical acts this weekend.

Free Radicals is both Nick Cooper's revolving-door ensemble that at any given moment could be playing free jazz or Latin funk, and also Cooper's ongoing testimonial to how much he digs being a member of the Houston music community.

On Friday night in Atlanta Billy Corgan , sporting a Bill Wyman "Je Suis Un RockStar" t-shirt, and the rest of the Smashing Pumpkins played a fast-paced, loud volume set of old and new music to a full Chastain Park Amphitheater crowd that loved every minute of the show.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Smashing Pumpkins play Concrete Street Amphitheater's Pavilion Stage Monday.

Coast music fans are in for a great weekend with the third annual Gulfport Music Festival, featuring a lineup that includes Airbourne, The Wallflowers, Awolnation, Shinedown and the Smashing Pumpkins to name a few.