Billy Corgan: Pavement are“sellouts”

Tue 16th Nov, 2010 in International News

Taking a brief break from 15 minute onstage rants and boasting about his pop star girlfriend, Billy Corgan has launched a bizarre attack on Pavement for “selling out”.

In a series of tweets the only remaining member of the Smashing Pumpkins announced: “Just found out SP is playing with Pavement in Brazil. It’s gonna be 1 of those New Orleans type funerals… I say that because they represent the death of the alternative dream, and we follow with the affirmation of life part… funny how those who pointed the big finger of ‘sell out’ are the biggest offenders now…yawn. they have no love… by the way, we’ll be the band up there playing NEW songs because we have the love xx.”

Corgan also sniped at Pavement during his recent interview with FasterLouder, noting that “even big mouth bands like Pavement, who used to take me to task about the way I ran my musical career, are out playing their twenty-year-old album”.

Playing in Brazil for the first time since 1998, Billy and the ‘Smashing Pumpkin’s will headline the Planeta Terra Festival in São Paulo, which also features Hot Chip, Phoenix, Of Montreal, Yeasayer, Passion Pit, Empire of the Sun, Girl Talk and the “sell outs” Pavement on Saturday night.

Pavement is scheduled to perform right before Billy’s gang and there’s sure to be a little more venom in Stephen Malkmus’ delivery when he sings Range Life, which features the lyrics “out on tour with the smashing pumpkins/ nature kids, they don’t have no function/ I don’t understand what they mean/ and I could really give a fuck”.