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Every The Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best

The collected studio works of Billy Corgan and company rated and ranked, from the so-so to the smashing

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"It was like being strapped to a rocket ship. Things took off in a beautiful, surprising way": The ultimate guide to every Billy Talent album in the band's own words

Ben Kowalewicz takes us on a tour through the albums that propelled Billy Talent from guitarist Ian D'Sa's parents' basement to the stages of the world's biggest festivals

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“To get a vote of confidence from someone we hold in highest regard was thrilling”: Shirley Manson on how Garbage got Brian Wilson’s blessing to use a Beach Boys hook in Push It

The alt-rock titans used a classic line from Don’t Worry Baby in their 1998 hit

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"As good as D’arcy and James are, it was just going to sound better if Billy played it" – Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Butch Vig, Flood and more on the Smashing Pumpkins' recording history

Classic interview – From Gish to Zeitgeist, through the eyes of the key players… plus the 11 underrated Pumpkins songs guitarists need to hear

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"For a while I was bummed out about the fuss it caused because I was worried my mum would find out:" the story behind L7's Pretend We're Dead

L7’s 1992 hit Pretend We're Dead led to a UK TV ban and permanent notoriety at the Reading Festival

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"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever

Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed

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"It was us saying, This is us, we're here to kick your door down": The tortured birth and eternal genius of Smashing Pumpkins' masterpiece Siamese Dream

Released on July 27, 1993, Smashing Pumpkins second album is one of the greatest alternative rock albums ever. "All I had to figure out was how to write a pop song," recalls Billy Corgan

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Butch Vig on playing Roland V-Drums live with Garbage: "I jumped at the chance!"

The producer and drummer recently spoke to Sweetwater about why a fully-electronic VAD drum kit is his go-to setup

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“He overdosed and was saved by an adrenalin shot”: How Urge Overkill went from being Steve Albini’s pet project to year-long parties and accidentally re-enacting that famous scene from Pulp Fiction

Urge Overkill were just “a scrappy punk rock band that played too fast”: How did they up touring with Nirvana and jet-setting with Chrissie Hynde?

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How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light

"The three of us together sitting in front of speakers and a mixing desk, that hasn’t happened in 20 years": How Dave Grohl got Butch Vig and Krist Novoselic involved in Foo Fighter’s seventh record

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Every Garbage album ranked from the worst to the best

Garbage have carved out a unique space in the modern rock world, and we've reviewed their eight albums to offer the definitive guide to their catalogue

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"This is my new favorite Foo Fighters song": Watch Joe Walsh blow Taylor Hawkins away with a one-take solo

The Eagles and James Gang legend – of whom Hawkins was a massive fan – was called in to play on the Sonic Highways track, Outside, and wasted little time making an indelible contribution

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Shirley Manson teases new Garbage album packed with 'gut punch' songs

The singer says she's been back in the studio with the boys - Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig - as they are working on the follow up album to 2021's No Gods No Masters

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