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Billy Corgan Is A Complete Waste Of Space
I used to be a fan of Smashing Pumpkins. Sure, their later material was pretty much garbage, but their early albums were iconic and helped define a generation. That being said, Billy Corgan has been clinging onto the Smashing Pumpkins name for far too long. The latest material is truly awful and the more I hear about Corgan, the less it seems like he is worth anybody’s time. Well, the final straw came yesterday when he went on his twitter account and slammed pedal maker Devi Ever, calling her an “ugly pig”, slamming her company and making transphobic remarks. His tweets have since been deleted, but thanks to the magic of the Internet, they are still easily found.
Warning, I’m about to get personal here: To say that I am disgusted with Billy Corgan is not enough. Frankly, there are no words to describe the loathing that I feel for the man. Should Devi have aired her frustrations on a Smashing Pumpkins board? Perhaps not. To be realistic, that board probably has 75 people AT MOST checking it regularly. Corgan has almost 114k followers on Twitter. His comments were sent to a vastly greater audience and showed his true character to the world, one that is vile and repulsive.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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