Before a sold-out crowd in Cleveland’s House of Blues on Tuesday night, Billy Corgan loped around the stage waiting to begin, his head down and his long body making careful movements, as if to check that everything was in place — the show was, after all, Corgan’s second with the newly formed incarnation of Smashing Pumpkins.
Without a word, the band unassumingly launched into ‘Astral Planes,’ a twisting new jam from Corgan’s proposed 44-song project, ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope.’ It wasn’t likely a track most of the crowd wished for, but Corgan, drummer Mike Byrne, bassist Nicole Fiorentino and guitarist Jeff Schroeder tore through it with as much or even more vigor as any Pumpkins classic. Continue reading
