Band Face Off - Round 26

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Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

Do the Pumpkins even exist anymore? I can't recall anything since Mellon Collie.

Two or three years after Mellon Collie came Adore, then in 2000 there was Machina, and they played some farewell shows in Chicago and Billy broke up the band, and has since gone about verbally abusing James and D'arcy as much as possible.

Not too long after breaking up the Pumpkins, Billy formed Zwan with Jimmy Chamberlain and a few other indie superstar musicians, and they put out one pretty decent album in 2003 (fun, well-played guitar pop, if a little MOR) but broke up before the end of that year for no real reason.

Then, this year, Billy released a solo album, which I haven't heard, but I can only assume it's awful. The guy's become a weird caricature of himself. He's got a blog where talks about how much he loves his kittens and hates D'arcy and crap like that. He put out an ad in the Chicago Sun-Times over the summer talking about getting the pUmpkins back together, but I think it was just a publicity stunt for his new album. Weird dude.