Mike Byrne, 19, Smashing Pumpkins' New Drummer

19-year-old Mike Byrne from Portland, Oregon, is Smashing Pumpkins' new drummer. Byrne auditioned for the job in April, 2009, and beat out the competition of nearly 1,000 other drummers. The band's singer Billy...

Smashing Pumpkins Announce 20th Anniversary Shows

The Billy Corgan train just keeps on rolling. Guess it's time to shave my head again, rev up the Ice Cream van, and break out that old, ratty Zero t-shirt."Smashing Pumpkins are to celebrate their 20th...

Bhutto was not killed by suicide bomber or bullets, Pakistan says

Pakistan's interior ministry said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her. The ministry also said it had intercepted a phone call from a top Al-Qaeda figure...

Blooming plant goes through roof

"A rare Mexican plant which flowers once in its lifetime has blossomed, smashing a glasshouse roof in the process. Scientists at Bangor University waited 28 years to see the Century plant, from which tequila can be made, bloom. A curator, who had planted the seed as a student...

Smashing Pumpkins To Headline Montreal's Second Osheaga Festival

" MONTREAL — Last year's Labour Day shindig in Montreal, the Osheaga Music And Arts Festival, was such a grand ol' time that organizers have decided that a repeat is in order. The newly and partially reunited...

Iraq's Superbombs: Homegrown Ordinance?

This is what the Pentagon does not want the American people to even think about: that their armed forces can be held at bay by homegrown weapons, not by an international conspiracy of "evil". This makes sense, though: whatever country you are from, if an invading army...

World of Warcraft is a Series of Taxable Tubes

"When money is being exchanged for goods, even if the currency is make believe and the products are virtual healing potions and rides on gryphons, if enough of it is happening you can bet our government will perk up its little ears. The smashing success of World of Warcraft...

Crane Attack's Cab: Reported in NYC

"Whoa, via labs about a half-hour ago: "crane just dropped a giant block into traffic 15 floors down smashing thru a cab! i got pics on the scene." (Pix are from Selectroclash.) The wires are saying that the...

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