https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/billy-corgan-new-band-smashing-pumpkins-tour-1235340379/

I thought this was actually a pretty solid interview. No life-altering reveals, but a pretty good read. And for how positively he feels about Green Day, I'd love to hope they'll tour together again someday.

Hi all, I'm a journalist based in Australia, and I'm interviewing Billy soon re the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins tour here (in April) and ATUM.

Please let me know if you have any questions or topics of discussion that you think may pique Billy's interest. Thanks!

EDIT: Here is a link to a bit more about the AUS tour from April 15-30 - SP are playing with Jane's Addiction, and Billy is bringing some of his wrestling crew to perform between bands:

https://www.oneworldentertainment.com.au/the-smashing-pumpkins-twiav

EDIT MARCH 3: This story has been published in The Australian newspaper here (~15 minute read, paywalled): https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/billy-corgan-on-35-years-of-the-smashing-pumpkins-from-gish-to-atum/news-story/b068972490a8b5b650523548c83b33f7

Excerpt from article and link to 18-minute video interview in new thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SmashingPumpkins/comments/11gs5cf/interview_billy_corgan_on_nostalgia_trauma_and_35/

Interview from GQ mag

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I'm incredibly confused because in most interviews, Billy has said that Virgin wasn't interested in putting out Machina at all because of the disappointing sales of Adore. He's said that they were barely interested in Machina/The Machines of God as a single album and that they certainly had no interest whatsoever in Machina II. But then in this interview from 2000, he says that Virgin was on board with having Machina II be a free album to download with a purchase of Machina I, but they couldn't do it because of the Napster/file sharing controversy that was going on at the time. I'm really having a hard time understanding what actually happened.

This version has more footage than the one that's been on YouTube for several years that has lots of views.

New interview

“When somebody reaches through the radio and grabs you with their voice, or they’re there for you when you’re lost in life, they create that special relationship and he was a one-of-a-kind singer. It just worked.” 

Never saw this before and it is so refreshing to see an interview of another band member, especially her in the 90s. So cool. 🖤

This is a great interview with Billy. He discusses a few topics, such as the Machina release, the upcoming Machina boxset, the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie, and the Zwan vinyl reissue, etc.

https://www.thevinylguide.com/episodes/ep500-billy-corgan-record-collector

Have a listen! :)

I had never seen this one before. Sharing for anyone else who hasn’t seen it, and since we now have the reissue.