Billy Corgan: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Nov. 20, 2017, Robin Hilton Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is a complicated guy. In the years since that iconic and muchbeloved rock band broke up in 2000, Corgan has continued to put out music under various names and projects including several releases as Smashing Pumpkins, with different lineups while often stumbling through a bumpy minefield of his own making. To the headscratching surprise of some longtime fans, he s gotten heavily involved in pro wrestling, talked conspiracy theories during several appearances on The Alex Jones Show (warning of weaponized zombies in one interview), and, over the years, lobbed innumerable grievances about former bandmates, while trashing other musicians and publicly feuding with a revolving cast of celebrities and public figures. More recently, Corgan seems to have mellowed. He opted to release his new solo album Ogilala, under his (very grownupsounding) full name, William Patrick Corgan (though he very recently changed it back to Billy Corgan on stre