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Smashing Pumpkins

American rock group
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Smashing Pumpkins, American band, one of the most popular and influential alternative rock groups of the 1990s. Founded by guitarist and songwriter Billy Corgan in Chicago in 1988, the Smashing Pumpkins created a postpunk blend of progressive rock, grunge, and psychedelia that incorporated the brooding atmospherics of goth rock and the adventurous melodiousness of “dream pop” bands such as the Cocteau Twins. In addition to Corgan, the band’s founding members were guitarist James Iha, bassist...

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