{"id":655138,"date":"2026-05-20T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655138\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:01:13","slug":"smashing-pumpkins-recorded-with-butch-vig-for-first-time-in-33-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655138\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Pumpkins Recorded With Butch Vig for First Time in 33 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBilly Corgan went live on his Substack<\/a> May 19 to tell fans that Smashing Pumpkins<\/a> recently recorded their first song with producer Butch Vig since the Siamese Dream sessions over 33 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve just recorded one song,\u201d Corgan said. \u201cIt\u2019s for a specific purpose, which I can\u2019t give that part out \u2026 I haven\u2019t come up with a title yet, honestly. The plan is the song will be released this year. I can\u2019t say exactly when. There\u2019s reasons for that \u2026 The song is really cool. It\u2019s basically done recording. I\u2019d say there\u2019s a couple little things left. I\u2019d say it\u2019s 98 percent done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAppearing on camera alongside his 10-year-old son Augustus Juppiter, Corgan spent the few minutes teasing something mysterious. \u201cThis is a 10 out of 10 announcement,\u201d he said. \u201cIf this isn\u2019t a 10 out of 10 announcement, I don\u2019t know what is. This may be an 11 out of 10 announcement. This news isn\u2019t anywhere. You\u2019re hearing this first. What would you say if I told you that the Smashing Pumpkins had been in the studio again recording? I know that\u2019s not a 10 out of 10. This would be our first recording since Aghori [Mhori Mei]. I say that\u2019s a solid eight. Me being in the studio is meaningless since I\u2019m always in the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVig was behind the board when the Pumpkins recorded their 1991 debut LP Gish, and the 1993 followup Siamese Dream. Between those two releases, he produced Nirvana\u2019s Nevermind. \u201cWe were in the studio the day that he got the call to do Nevermind,\u201d Corgan told Rolling Stone in 2021.<\/a> \u201cI was literally in the next room. I could hear him talking. He came in and said, \u2018I\u2019ve been offered this job.\u2019 We were there as all these things were happening not only for us, but for the scene in general, and then Butch by extension. It\u2019s one thing to look back at history and go, \u2018Oh, how fantastic.\u2019 But at the time, it was very insecure. None of us were guaranteed anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this week, the Pumpkins announced plans for a North American arena tour<\/a> that\u2019ll spotlight their 1995 double LP Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The first half of the show will focus entirely on Mellon Collie songs in a \u201chighly theatrical setting,\u201d and the second set will spotlight songs from their other albums.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI presume we\u2019re going to play some Siamese Dream for all you Siamese Zombies,\u201d Corgan said in the Substack video. \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty cool. It\u2019s a full circle week for us. It\u2019s in the stars. Pretty good week in Pumpkin Land.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAugustus Juppiter was a bright, spirited presence throughout the announcement video, occasionally adding things like \u201cJimmy Chamberlin always leaves the car door open.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe current lineup of the Pumpkins features Corgan, Chamberlin, guitarists James Iha and Kiki Wong, and bassist Jack Bates. They played a small hall show May 17 at the Legion Theater in Los Angeles that was heavy on Mellon Collie songs, including the first live performance of \u201cHere Is No Why\u201d since 1997. They\u2019re talking the stage against July 31 at Lollapalooza in Chicago.\u00a0 The Mellon Collie tour kicks off Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Corgan went live on his Substack May 19 to tell fans that Smashing Pumpkins recently recorded their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,58429],"class_list":["post-655138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-smashing-pumpkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}