Outspoken Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has claimed that he and Kurt Cobain were the top two songwriters of the 90s grunge era, labelling other heavyweights of the time, such as Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell, as a “distant third.” Corgan’s comments came during a recent interview

The Smashing Pumpkins have debuted a new song, “Tiberius,” which is the opening track on the group’s upcoming album, “Monuments to an Elegy.” “Tiberius” follows along the same character as the album’s first single, “Being Beige,” and sounds like classic Pumpkins with a grand, warm chorus and

"Being Beige," the first finished track off the Smashing Pumpkins' forthcoming Monuments to an Elegy, has a simple title but its acoustic guitar and drum machine intro builds toward an urgent, memorable chorus, where singer Billy Corgan repeats the line, "The world's on fire" as the full band fills