The Smashing Pumpkins erupted out of the obscurity of the Chicago music scene with a raw and dissonant sound that encapsulated the dissatisfaction and disillusi

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In a time when rock might have taken itself a bit too seriously, a teenaged fan took up her pen and tore down the walls. With gentle, biting humor and an enormo

Taking its title with suitable slacker irony from a song on Nirvana's In Utero, Milk It! is an anthology of pieces written in the heat of the moment-an urgent a

Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins. This look at the band—"Corgan's He