NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 04: Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins performs in ... Former Pumpkin guitarist James Iha joined the Pumpkins’ current lineup (which includes original drummer ...

After former Smashing Pumpkins member Nicole Fiorentino was announced as Garbage's new touring bassist, keen-eyed fans of the two bands were quick to notice that she's continuing the trend of ...

Its current second guitarist, Jeff Schroeder, joined a reconstituted Smashing Pumpkins in 2007; Nicole Fiorentino on bass and Mike Byrne on drums (replacing the band’s longtime drummer ...

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s feud with former bassist D’Arcy Wretzky is ... that is easily applicable to the status of the current Pumpkins reunion: Asked by Spin in 2005 whether ...

Corgan’s recognition of the bassist comes ... happens next for [Smashing Pumpkins], I’d like to say quite simply and directly that what matters most to Jeff [Schroeder, current guitarist ...

Since their mid-90s heyday, every tour by The Smashing Pumpkins ... restoring balance to the Pumpkins universe. D'Arcy Wretzky Unfortunately for fans, though, original bassist D’Arcy never ...

The Smashing Pumpkins’ latest studio album is 2012’s ‘Oceania,’ and his current band includes guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino. Corgan says things operate a ...

A backup musician for best-selling Chicago rock band Smashing Pumpkins was found dead Friday ... The death and the arrest put the group’s current 200-date tour–and quite possibly its future ...

“I’ll be playing the Yamaha BB7, the same model Jack Bates uses in Smashing Pumpkins. We don’t use pedals for this music, so the tone is really sculpted from the bass itself and the amp.

While Billy Corgan has been the only consistent member of the Smashing Pumpkins since their inception, the band’s current lineup is only one member ... as a six-piece for some time at live shows, with ...

Though they opened with “The American Dream is Killing Me,” a pungent rocker from their current album ... of U2’s “Zoo Station,” Smashing Pumpkins ticked through much of their ...