A North American tour will feature three of the band's four original members playing its biggest hits — some of alt-rock's best. But... What even is Smashing Pumpkins?
The trio and its first album are the product of two bands joining forces — but the creation of something new often requires the sacrifice of something known.
Rapp's band, Pearls Before Swine, sold an impressive number of records and contained strains of experimentalism that reverberated for decades after. He thought it was all fine.