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Billy Corgan: 'The Mythology of the Nineties Now Is Irrelevant' — rollingstone.com

Billy Corgan has been asked to revisit the heyday of Nineties alternative rock a number of times while promoting the Smashing Pumpkins' most recent record, Monuments to an Elegy, but in a new interview with The Guardian, the rocker seemed to hit a breaking point, saying: "Right now that era is irrelevant." Corgan noted that neither the Pumpkins nor any of the other bands from that era are charting anymore, and dismissed the notion that a lot of new bands are being influenced by Nineties artists. "I don’t hear that," Corgan said. "The mythology [of that era] right now is irrelevant to combat the pop menace in America right now."

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