SP.com's PumpkinsMediaSiren was on hand April 17, 2009 to witness Billy Corgan and Mavis Staples share the stage for Chicago Tonights' 25th Anniversary Charity Concert in Chicago's Millennium Park. Here they both sing Staples' "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

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Drummer Phil Mckenna has been standing out amongst Pumpkins fans for the past few years thanks to his consistent video posts on youtube.

SmashingPumpkins.com has gotten an exclusive interview with Phil. He provided this video to share on the eve of auditions to find a new drummer for the band.

http://www.smashingpumpkins.co m/pages/articles/drumming-up-p hil-mckenna

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Billy Corgan appearing on The House Judiciary webcast on March 10th, 2009 during his testimony to Congress regarding H.R. 848 on behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition.

Transcription of Corgan's testimony is available at http://www.smashingpumpkins.co m/pages/news/billy-corgans-ful l-congressional-testimony-avai lable
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Me at the drumoff in 08. I'm totally aware of the bobble in the beginning but other than that I'm pretty proud of it. Check out my band at www.myspace.com/satisfactosaur us

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My friend Will and I interviewed Billy Corgan, lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins at Vintage Vinyl in Evanston, IL. He stopped by to shop for some music on National Record Store Day on Saturday April 18th, 2009.

A lot of people have been wondering what the song playing in the background is. Here's a link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =NxyqRkEW-Pk

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Day in the life of the Smashing Pumpkins: Morning with Jeff in his hotel room.

Meet Jeff Schroeder, guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins as he prepares for his day of rehearsal and performance that night.

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Day in the life of the Smashing Pumpkins: Morning with Billy Corgan in his hotel room writing a song that will be played for the first time at the concert later that evening.

Billy writes almost every morning and comes to rehearsal with new ideas to show the rest of the group. This song ultimately becomes "The Rose March"

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Day in the life of the Smashing Pumpkins: Jeff talks about Gossamer.

Jeff sheds some light on the super-song Gossamer that has been appearing on recent setlists.

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