Billy Corgan Working With Rick Rubin on Solo Album
In July, Billy Corgan revealed in a Facebook video on the Smashing Pumpkins’ page that he “just sort of finished a new solo album” and “it’s actually recorded and sort of mostly done.” The album was recorded over two weeks in California, and it’s composed of all new songs, but doesn’t have a release date yet, according to Corgan. Earlier this week, Corgan returned to Facebook to post a video revealing that he worked on this solo record with Rick Rubin. He had this to say about the record and collaboration:
“I have talked a little bit about how I’m making a solo record. I haven’t talked about who I made the solo record with. I actually made the solo record with Rick Rubin, my longtime friend, and one of the greatest producers in the history of rock and roll. We finished all the basic recordings. I think we recorded about 12 or 13 songs. I’m set to go back out to the west coast at some point to finish up a few things, but for the most part the record is done. I don’t have a due date on when that’s going to be coming out.”
Corgan also revealed he’s written some songs for his “favorite singer” Sierra Swan:
“I’m also currently writing a batch of songs for an album for Ms. Sierra Swan, my favorite singer in the world, who I’ve produced an album with before, but on this album all the songs will be written by me.”
Corgan teased an upcoming Smashing Pumpkins tour:
“Making plans for next year, and definitely making plans to tour next year under the name Smashing Pumpkins. Who will be on stage? We will see.”
And he considered what a new Smashing Pumpkins record would sound like:
“I am getting a hankering, call me crazy, but I am getting a hankering to starting writing rock and roll music again. I find myself obsessing on riffs in my head. I would say if I was going to make an album of [Smashing Pumpkins] music again, it would probably be somewhere between Gish and Siamese Dream type styles. I think I’m ready to get back to big riffs, big choruses. So I guess I have to get Jimmy Chamberlin on the phone…and maybe some other people who used to be in the band.”
Corgan mentioned plans to release some of the band’s old material on vinyl:
“We’re going to start release archival stuff from the band’s early history, sort of 88-92 era, live recordings that we have in the archives. We’re going to offer those on vinyl and also offer those available on digital. So, we’ll be announcing pretty soon how to get those…There are some songson there that haven’t been released, I don’t even know if they’ve ever been bootlegged.”
He then spent the rest of the video discussing recent happenings at Impact Wrestling, where Corgan now serves as President.
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