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Smashing Pumpkins Perform Siamese Dream’s “Quiet” for First Time in 27 Years: Watch
Smashing Pumpkins took the stage at Chicago’s Riot Fest on Friday night for their first live performance in over two years. Alongside greatest hits, fan favorites, and material from the band’s latest album, CYR, the 20-song setlist also included several rare performances. Billy Corgan and co. dusted off the Gish song “Crush” for the first time since 2008 and the Adore track “Shame” for the first time since 2010. But the evening’s most unexpected moment came when the Pumpkins waxed nostalgic and performed Siamese Dream’s “Quiet” for the first time since 1994. Watch fan-captured footage of “Quiet” below. Siamese Dreams, Gish, and Adore aren’t the only old Pumpkins albums Corgan has been revisiting as of late. He’s also been working on a sequel concept album to both Mellon Coll...
Kim Kardashian Says Daughter North Is a “Goth Girl”
Sure, North West might be the child of one of the most high-profile couples of the 2010s, but rest assured that her upbringing is totally normal: She runs around the house with her siblings, she visits her dad Kanye at work, and she goes through fashion phases that she’ll certainly look back on in embarrassment one day. In a recent interview on the final season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, mom Kim Kardashian said the 8-year-old has officially gone “full goth.” In the interview, Kardashian discussed the varying budding interests of her four children. While her three younger kids — Chicago, Psalm, and Saint — are into more standard preoccupations like Paw Patrol and tiny Birkin bags, the eldest Kardashian-West child is taking an edgier route. “She’s into Hot Topic, and she puts fak...
Dua Lipa & Megan Thee Stallion Hit the Club While Crossing Paths in Las Vegas: See the Photos
During the event, Lipa was honored by Ryan Seacrest with the iHeartRadio titanium award for her hit song “Levitating,” which reached 1 billion total audience spins across iHeartRadio stations. The track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2020. Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion was in Vegas for her headlining set at the 2021 Life Is Beautiful festival in downtown. Later in the evening, Lipa took to her Instagram Story to share a clip of the hip-hop star performing onstage at the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan. “Lets go hot girl,” Lipa captioned the clip, tagging Megan. The singer also shared a behind-the-scenes photo gallery on Instagram of the two music stars making silly faces and posing together in the club. In the snapshots, Lipa is seen wearin...
‘Jagged Little Pill’ Producers Address Controversy, Key Changes Around Gender Non-Conforming Character
The issue around Jo’s gender and whether they identified broadly as non-binary, as another more specific gender identity or at all, was raised as the show made its way from a Boston to Broadway stage. The character was played by Lauren Patten, a cisgender woman, but Jagged Little Pill also directly referenced that Jo at the very least wasn’t a cisgender woman or man, with the character using they/them pronouns and having their identity invalidated by various people around them, among other narrative points. Many at the time labeled Jo as non-binary, though that identity label had never been explicitly attached to the character in the show. Things became complicated after the show moved to Broadway in 2019, and audiences watched Jagged Little Pill with those previous discussions of gender r...
Why Billie Eilish Cried When She Rewatched Her Documentary
“The media just like tears it away from you,” said Eilish. “It’s not fun right now.” The conversation with Eilish, whose concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles premiered on Disney+ in early September and whose documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry was released on Apple TV+ earlier this year, then shifted over to the artist’s relationship with fans. “One moment I was a fan, and then suddenly I was looked at as this like, higher up,” she said. “Even when I was 14. And it was so weird because I was like, ‘I’m not even anyone. I just make music and these kids that I feel like I already know — suddenly like, ‘Oh they’re Billie’s fans, an...
Here Are All the First-Time Finalists at the 2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards
The night will also see an array of new faces whose outstanding performances throughout Billboard Latin charts, during the Feb. 1, 2020 through Aug. 7, 2021 period, have earned them a space among the finalists. In anticipation of next week’s awards, Billboard has compiled a list of this year’s first-time finalists in alphabetical order, with a brew of genres among its tallies. Black Eyed Peas (eight nods) Crossover Artist of the YearHot Latin Song of the Year – “Ritmo (Bad Boys For Life)”Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Event – “Ritmo (Bad Boys For Life)”Sales Song of the Year – “Ritmo (Bad Boys For Life)”Sales Song of the Year – “Mamacita”Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year, Duo or GroupLatin Pop Song of the Ye...
T-Pain Is Looking for EDM Collaborators: “I Know I Can Lead Us to Musical Greatness”
It seems T-Pain believes his path to musical greatness lies squarely within EDM’s crosshairs. Taking to Twitter, the famed hip-hop and R&B artist earnestly petitioned the dance music talent pool to show him their best stuff, especially projects within the house and techno creative vein. While the “I’m Sprung” singer initially confessed this may all just be spur of the moment inspiration induced by the lights and sounds of Las Vegas, he later doubled down on his request for producers to start sharing videos of their current projects with the hashtag #broedmfortpainwouodbetightasf. With the right producer by his side, T-Pain suggests the sky is the limit. “I know I can lead us to musical greatness,” he tweeted. Recommended Articles Elec...
To Shake Financial Woes, Tomorrowland Calls for Three Weekends of Festival Action In 2022
The organizers of Tomorrowland are making their intentions clear that they want to return bigger than ever in 2022. After receiving an initial green light at the national level, the iconic Belgian event reeled from a last second rug-pull when local officials refused to grant organizers essential event permits in order to make their 2021 edition happen. This year marked the second consecutive cancellation of Tomorrowland due to pandemic related concerns. The festival typically draws in 400,000 attendees annually. Now facing mounting debt, Tomorrowland says it’s essential they be granted permission to host the event across three weekends in 2022. “We really have to do this to cushion the financial hangover,” Tomorrowland’s Debby Wilmsen told Het Laatst...
Watch Smashing Pumpkins Play ‘Quiet’ for the First Time Since 1994
The Smashing Pumpkins made their return to the stage in their hometown of Chicago Friday night as a Riot Fest 2021 headliner. The set marked their first full concert since August 2019, and in addition to live-debuting a few songs from their latest album CYR (“The Colour of Love,” “Ramona” and “Wyttch”), Billy Corgan and company also took the opportunity to dust off the Siamese Dream favorite “Quiet” — a song that was a setlist staple during the Siamese Dream touring era then was abruptly canned in 1994. They also played “United States” off 2007’s Zeitgeist for the first time since 2015. A festival goer filmed the “Quiet” performance in full, which you can watch below. [embedded content] On Sunday, the Smashing Pumpkins are set to take the stage at Asbury Park, New Jerse...
Former ACCEPT Members HERMAN FRANK And DAVID REECE Announce New Band IRON ALLIES
Former ACCEPT members Herman Frank and David Reece have joined forces in a new band called IRON ALLIES. Also involved with the project are bassist Donnie Van Stavern (RIOT) and drummer Francesco Jovino (U.D.O., PRIMAL FEAR, VOODOO CIRCLE, JORN). Frank, who is promoting his fifth solo album, “Two For A Lie”, broke the news of the collaboration in a June 2021 interview with Justin Smulison of Jace Media. He said: “I’m working right now — already working since a couple of months [ago] — on another project I wanna do with a singer, a well-known singer. He played in the same band as I did, but we never played [in the band] at the same time.” When Smulison guessed that Frank was referring to Reece, the guitarist said: “How do you know? Good guess.” Herma...
POSSESSED’s JEFF BECERRA Walks Again For First Time In Over 30 Years
POSSESSED frontman Jeff Becerra, who was shot in a robbery in 1989, leaving him partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound, says that he was able to walk again for the first time in over 30 years with the help of robotic legs. Earlier today (Saturday, September 18), Becerra shared a video of him taking a few steps at what appears to be a physical therapy facility or a hospital, and he included the following message: I walked again! I walked again for the first time in over 30 years with the help of robotic legs #jeffbecerra #possessed #possessedband #rewalk #rewalkrobotics #smallmiracles”. POSSESSED originally split in 1987, leaving behind a short but highly influential legacy, most notably their 1985 “Seven Churches” debut, widely considered to be the first-ever death meta...
QUIET RIOT Bassist CHUCK WRIGHT Pays Tribute To Liberal Icon RUTH BADER GINSBURG With ‘Army Of Me’ Video
Longtime QUIET RIOT bassist Chuck Wright will release his debut solo album, “Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky”, in early 2022. A video trailer for the LP’s first single, a hard-rocking, intense interpretation of Björk‘s 1995 hit “Army Of Me”, is available below. The song and the accompanying clip represent Wright‘s exploration of disorder and parallels with the chaotic current state of world affairs. The visuals include a 3D animation of an “army” of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, the late Supreme Court Justice, feminist icon and steadfast advocate for women’s rights and gender equality. Says Wright: “I chose to release the trailer today, September 18, to recognize the late Justice Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her passi...
