Billy Corgan

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Billy, Don't Be a Hero

Smashing Pumpkins at the Wang Theatre, November 15, 2008
The second of a two-night stand in Boston, with no overlap from the previous night, the Saturday show started off with a few of Corgan's better-known tunes only to drift off into la-la land at around the halfway point.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | November 19, 2008

Oddballs and noisemakers

Looking back 20 years to the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and the beginning of the Best Music Poll
Twenty years ago, the American Top 40 was nothing like Boston’s live music scene.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | May 07, 2008

Dead Child

Attack | Quarterstick/Touch and Go
From the first monster-metal riff and warlock scream, it’s pleasantly obvious where Dead Child are headed on their full-length debut.
By MATT ASHARE | April 29, 2008

Punk rock redux

Blood on the Wall pump out the nostalgia
Try reimagining early punk as some physically intense and massively popular athletic contest.
By NICK SYLVESTER | April 01, 2008

Pants afire

Fakeries and the faking fakers who fake them
The ratio of falsehood to truth in the universe has not, of course, altered one jot since the world began.
By JAMES PARKER | March 13, 2008

Rock Band

Supplementing Harmonix's 58-song set list
Would more Britpop be too much to ask?
By RYAN STEWART | February 12, 2008

Dax Riggs

We Sing of Only Blood or Love | Fat Possum
One of the best tunes here could almost pass for an outtake from Marilyn Manson’s latest.
By MIKAEL WOOD | November 13, 2007

I scream, you scream

A salute to ice cream trucks
Kids still stream toward the siren song and that holy grail — frozen treats in paper packaging, paradise in the guise of a push-up pop.
By DAVID MASHBURN | August 27, 2007

Mae

Singularity | Capitol
Virginia Beach–based Mae play catchy, pretty pop-rock perfect for kids whose parents won’t let them wear their Death Cab for Cutie T-shirts to Sunday school.
By MIKAEL WOOD | August 07, 2007

Midsummer muses

Smashing Pumpkins redux and Velvet Revolver
It’s been almost 20 years since Corgan first bared his barren soul to the world and not a whole lot has changed.
By MATT ASHARE | July 23, 2007

Transformers

The Album | Warner Bros.
If Transformers the film is a feature-length GM commercial with a sci-fi narrative, then Transformers: The Album is equally shameless.
By MATT ASHARE | July 03, 2007

Cork it, Corgan

Could be Verse: Poetry ripped straight from the headlines
Lines Upon Hearing the Smashing Pumpkins’ Single “Tarantula,” Their First New Material Since 2000 James Parker, "Cork it, Corgan" (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER | June 14, 2007

Packin' 'em in on Lansdowne Street

Best Music Poll Party, Lansdowne Street, June 6, 2007
Whoever told you that the post-punk revival is on the wane was wrong.
By WILL SPITZ | June 12, 2007

Mr. Lonely

Marilyn Manson goes deep
Marilyn Manson’s Eat Me, Drink Me is the first record in that’s made me want to hang out with the guy rather than gawk at him from afar.
By MIKAEL WOOD | June 12, 2007