The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most iconic, iconoclastic, and influential bands of all time, shaping alternative music and culture. Since forming in Chicago during 1988, the group have sold over 30 million albums worldwide and garnered two GRAMMY® Awards, seven MTV VMAs, and an American Music Award. Their catalog includes seminal offerings such as the platinum Gish [1991], the quadruple-platinum Siamese Dream [1993], the diamond-certified Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], the platinum Adore [1998], and the gold Machina/The Machines of God [2000].
Rolling Stone cited both Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness among its “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” It would also be impossible to envision alternative music and culture without their signature iconography such as the idyllic album artwork for Siamese Dream, the black Zero shirt, the laissez-faire bliss of the “1979” music video, the gothic metamorphosis of “Ava Adore,” or the multi-dimensional live shows that continue to sell out worldwide.
2018 saw The Smashing Pumpkins unveil SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN. and launch the immensely successful Shiny and Oh So Bright Tour, which packed arenas. Maintaining this momentum, the band released the double album CYR [2020], followed by ATUM [2023], the sequel to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Machina/The Machines of God. Their 2024 album, Aghori Mhori Mei, marked a return to form for original members Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, and James Iha, channeling the band’s early ’90s sound driven by guitars, bass, drums, and soaring vocals.

Up next, The Smashing Pumpkins will return to their hometown of Chicago to headline Lollapalooza before kicking off The Rats in a Cage Tour this fall.