How the hell do these people get together to form a band? I mean, I guess you can play connect the dots to a certain extent - Bassist Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne) and guitarist James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins) co-own a studio. And Iha undoubtedly is a Cheap Trick fan which is where drummer Bun...

Billie Joe Armstrong has always been one of those guys I'd like to get wasted and have a dirty 10-minute stand with. Of course, I'd probably drink a bucket of Clorox after and cry, but... Anyway, it's been far too long—four-and-a-half years!—since Green Day's American Idiot was released. It was ...

Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Marketing/Advertising, Hyundai, Celebrities How did you like Hyundai's Genesis Coupe ads during the Super Bowl? They rocked, right? With that hard-driving soundtrack from The Smashing Pumpkins, of course they rocked. The song is called "FOL," and it isn't available f...

Monica and Franco from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo. Don’t be afraid, my dear brides and grooms-to-be. You like hard rock and not sure how you’d fare with mushy songs? It’s possible as this same-day video by Jason Magbanua shows. Jason says What are the chances of a Bride requesting for...

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Ever kissed a blue eyed person?  I'm sure I have.  Drea, you've got blue eyes, right? Can you see a phone right now? Nope.  Can't even hear one if it were to ring.  Which it won't for 45 minutes or so. What are you listening to? Smashing Pumpkin's 'the beginning is the end is the...

What the hell is up with Billy Corgan? Reports from the Smashing Pumpkins’ 20th Anniversary Tour—the Pumpkins, of course, consisting only of Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain—have roused fans’ ire again and again with set-lists bereft of hits, endlessly wonky space jams (notably with thei...

Billy Corgan, in his latest attempt to be seen as a total nutball by pretty much anyone who liked him during the '90s, is saying that Eddie Vedder's song about the Cubs maybe winning the World Series "killed that shit dead... Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team." Funny,...

1. What was a guilty-pleasure song of yours in high school? You loved it without irony? Even though you knew it was wrong? In high school I loved Def Leppard. But, I didn't think it was wrong. I KNEW it was OH SO RIGHT. 2. What do you spend altogether too much time on? Thinking. Worrying about the h...

You can talk about genres, artists, albums, or even songs, but sometimes what keeps us coming back to music is the discovery of the transcendent musical moment. For me, “the moment� is the part of the song that fully and utterly engages me; the reason that I keep coming back to it. I’m not nec...