With their uncompromising vision and diverse, swirling, guitar-heavy sound, Chicago quartet The Smashing Pumpkins touched on prog rock, metal, psychedelia and dream pop, becoming one of the most successful bands of their generation.
This collection of WXRT-FM & WZRD-FM radio broadcasts captures them at their peak, beginning with an early session, before they were signed, and moving through their rise to stardom with ‘Siamese Dream’ (1993) and ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ (1995), which took the band from concert venues to huge stadium shows.E