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Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins ’ era-defining big, bold, bombastic masterpiece Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness .

Anyone walking down Manhattan’s West 28th Street in the early 20th century would have heard the clanging of multiple pianos – a cacophony that earned it the nickname ‘Tin Pan Alley’. It was the heart

Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

He turned down Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend, present at a thousand pop-culture flashpoints… Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons explains why he’s like “the rock’n’roll Forrest Gump”.

XTC’S 1986 ALBUM, Skylarking, is fairly beloved today, but for Andy Partridge, the British band's co-founder, chief songwriter and guitarist, it was difficult to make. The main issue? Partridge's disa