Tag: Smashing Pumpkins

Watch: Peter Hook joins Smashing Pumpkins to play Joy Division’s “No Love Lost”

Watch: Peter Hook joins Smashing Pumpkins to play Joy Division’s “No Love Lost”

Smashing Pumpkins have been known to cover Joy Division, so it’s no surprise that when Peter Hook shared a bill with them, they teamed up onstage.

Watch: Billy Corgan joins The Alarm for ‘Rain in the Summertime’ in Cleveland

Watch: Billy Corgan joins The Alarm for ‘Rain in the Summertime’ in Cleveland

he Alarm has been on tour in the U.S. this summer with contemporaries Modern English and Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel, a package that drew a high-profile guest in Cleveland last night: Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, who joined the Mike Peters-led band onstage to help perform its 1987 single “Rain in the Summertime.”

Dennis Flemion, of The Frogs, 1955-2012

Dennis Flemion, of The Frogs, 1955-2012

Dennis Flemion, who co-founded the cult indie-pop act The Frogs with his younger brother Jimmy in Milwaukee in 1980 and rose to minor alt-rock celebrity in the ’90s, is missing and presumed dead in a Wisconsin lake, Matador Records co-owner Gerard Cosloy announced on the label’s blog tonight.