Credit: Getty Images Billy Corgan has issued a cheeky call-out to James Hetfield while highlighting apparent similarities between a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut and a Metallica song that came out ...

Billy Corgan is out on tour right now celebrating the 25th anniversary of Machina: The Machines Of God, the last album released during the Smashing Pumpkins’ original run. Pumpkins bandmates James Iha ...

Within a smaller club setting, Billy Corgan and the Machines of God delivered a 26-song set to the Pumpkins faithful.

“Now, I don’t think James would rip anything off from me, but the first time I heard [“Fuel”], I was, like, ‘that’s awfully close,’” Corgan said. Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan ...

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