Named among the most anticipated releases of 1998, Adore ultimately confounded many longtime Pumpkins listeners. Essentially an experimental goth-pop outing, minimalist and muted in comparison to the ...

There was one big question around The Smashing Pumpkins as Billy Corgan & co. prepared to release their fourth record Adore at the beginning of June, 1998: how were they going to replace Jimmy ...

"I've tried to make something indescribable," Billy Corgan told MTV in 1998, previewing the retooled sound of Smashing Pumpkins' polarizing fourth LP, Adore. A noble mission — but also a difficult one ...

When alternative rock took over the world, the airwaves, and MTV during the 1990s, few bands garnered more press or sold more records than the Smashing Pumpkins — you’d almost think they were from ...