The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins turned alternative rock into a cracked cathedral: guitars like broken stained glass, studio obsession, adolescent lyricism and an almost reckless grandeur. Billy Corgan put Chicago at the center of a mythology of his own, somewhere between shoegaze, metal, psychedelia and gothic melodrama. From the blaze of Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie to the post-reunion reinventions, the band lives as a struggle between control and collapse.

Why listen to The Smashing Pumpkins?

Few bands have made self-pity sound so vast, electric and dangerously beautiful.