Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins and Run The Jewels to headline Riot Fest 2021

Riot Fest has announced that Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins and Run The Jewels will headline its 2021 event. The four-day event, which will also feature performances from Faith No More, Pixies and DEVO, is due to take place at Chicago’s Douglass Park on September 16-19, with tickets on sale here now. Other names …

Smashing Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder to record theme for next National Wrestling Alliance event

Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder is slated to write and record the theme song for the next US National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) event. At the request of his bandmate and NWA president Billy Corgan, Schroeder has been asked to write a song that best represents the pay-per-view event’s dark circus theme. The second of the …

The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Machina’ reissue is finished and will have at least 80 songs

The Smashing Pumpkins have finished their forthcoming ‘Machina II’ reissue based on its original conception, frontman Billy Corgan has confirmed. The band released their fifth album ‘Machina/The Machines Of God’ in February 2000 and followed it up that September with ‘Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music’ as a free internet download. The move …