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The Wedge Playlist For June 3rd

June 4th, 2012

If you missed The Wedge yesterday, we won’t be mad at you but if you don’t listen to this week’s playlist we might be. Check out the tracks we picked for our MMVA special. For the week of the June 3rd The Wedge played songs by: F*cked Up, A Tribe Called Quest, Red Hot Chilli [...]

Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, arcade fire, beastie boys, Black Keys, blur, David Bowie, fucked up, red hot chilli peppers, sloan, smashing pumpkins, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Wedge
Posted in Blog, Playlist, The Wedge | Posted by Melissa

The Big Pink “Mayonaise” (MP3)

December 8th, 2011

After last week’s reissues of the first two Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan and the gang have reclaimed their relevance. The Big Pink put a stamp on that with a version of Siamese Dream‘s fuzz-drenched ballad, “Mayonaise.” The duo recorded the song for BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge, and it’s pretty doubtful that it will appear [...]

Tags: Mayonaise, MP3, smashing pumpkins, the big pink, The Wedge
Posted in Blog, MP3, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Billy Corgan talks first two Smashing Pumpkins albums, reissues (Video)

November 30th, 2011

This week sees the first two Smashing Pumpkins albums – Gish and Siamese Dream – each reissued and remastered with a second disc of previously unreleased demos and a concert DVD. Frontman and only remaining member Billy Corgan did a little promo video where he talks about each album and the experience behind make them, [...]

Tags: Billy Corgan, Gish, reissue, Siamese Dream, smashing pumpkins, The Wedge, Video
Posted in Blog, The Wedge, Videos | Posted by Cam

Smashing Pumpkins ‘Early Demos’ (MP3)

November 17th, 2011

On November 29th, the first two Smashing Pumpkins LPs, Gish and Siamese Dream, will be reissued and packaged with new artwork, previously unheard demos, live recordings, updates mixes and a concert DVD. Basically, it’s everything you want from the once great Chicago band, all bundled up nicely in one product. To get a sense of [...]

Tags: Disarm, I Am One, MP3, Rocket, smashing pumpkins, The Wedge, Today
Posted in Blog, MP3, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Billy Corgan Smashes More Than Pumpkins

October 14th, 2011

Billy Corgan is a busy guy. From putting the finishing touches on the latest Smashing Pumpkins album Oceania to prepping for their United Kingdom tour in November, what do you with the time in between? You open your own wrestling company. Billy Corgan is about to launch Resistance Pro, a professional wrestling company where he’ll [...]

Tags: Billy Corgan, News, smashing pumpkins
Posted in Blog, Celebrities & Pop Culture, Headlines & Current Events, News | Posted by Michael

The Wedge A.M. News Round Up: Big Day For Album Releases, Including Wilco, Dum Dum Girls, and Twin Sister

September 27th, 2011

Today marks a big day for album releases, unless you’ve already illegally downloaded all of them. Nirvana released the Nevermind 20th Anniversary edition, which Pitchfork awarded the rare rating of 10. Chicago rock veterans Wilco released their ninth album, The Whole Love and L.A. girl group Dum Dum Girls dropped their sophomore album, Only In [...]

Tags: dan mangan, Dum Dum Girls, Marion, nirvana, Ohbijou, radiohead, smashing pumpkins, Twin Sister, wilco, Youth Lagoon
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Simone

The Wedge News Round Up: Smashing Pumpkins hit the road and former QOTSA bassit arrested

August 15th, 2011

- The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a 12 City US tour starting October 5 in Los Angeles and wrapping up on October 22 in Philadelphia. The only original Pumpkin, Billy Corgan, has been working alongside new members Nicole Fiorentino, Mike Byrne and Jeff Schroeder on the band’s first album in five years, Oceania, due out [...]

Tags: Queens Of The Stone Age, smashing pumpkins, The Wedge
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Allison

M83 Set To Revive the Double Album

August 5th, 2011

The double album. It’s a bold, risky and often stupid artistic statement that very rarely hits the mark (if my math is correct, 23 percent it succeeds). Of course, we’re talking about the studio effort that was so epic it needed to be spread across two halves, not the “greatest hits,” singles or live collections [...]

Tags: Aphex Twin, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift to Experience, m83, Meat Beat Manifesto, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, nine inch nails, smashing pumpkins, swans, Unwound, wilco
Posted in Blog, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Smashing Pumpkins will not reunite with original line up

May 6th, 2011

Smashing Pumpkin frontman Billy Cogan has delivered the ‘booooo’ news that the original Pumpkins lineup will never reunite. The band has had numerous line up changes since 2000, with original members coming and going, but it seems that all hopes for a full reunion have been dashed. While Corgan said that he would reunite with [...]

Tags: News, smashing pumpkins
Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture, Music & Videos, News | Posted by Allison

Smashing Pumpkins to expand & reissue their catalogue

April 26th, 2011

Nostalgia for the 1990s has reached an ultimate high, and what better way to celebrate that than reissue the entire back catalogue of the Smashing Pumpkins, one of the decade’s biggest bands. According to Billboard, the band – which at this point is essentially just Billy Corgan – has reached an agreement with EMI Music [...]

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Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam