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  • Smashing Pumpkins at Primavera 2007

“The world’s on fire, have you heard?” sings Billy Corgan on the first taste from the Smashing Pumpkins’ forthcoming album, Monuments to an Elegy. The Highland Park-based songwriter promised last March that two new Smashing Pumpkins albums would see the light of day in 2015, but more recently the first of the pair got bumped up to December 9, just in time for the holidays. Now the 90s alt-rock band has shared “Being Beige” via Rolling Stone.