The Smashing Pumpkins

The Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist’s much buzzed about new memoir is the feminist music history book Gen-X needs right now

A year after stepping behind the mic as a host rather than a frontman, Billy Corgan is celebrating the first anniversary of The Magnificent Others, the wide-ranging podcast that has quietly become one of his most intriguing creative projects outside of The Smashing Pumpkins. Launched last year, Corgan’s show has distinguished itself from the crowded…