New coverage highlights the links between the guest artists and the Smashing Pumpkins’ music: Yungblud had deliberately drawn on *Siamese Dream* for “Zombie” and collaborated with the band on a rerecording earlier this year, while Olivia Rodrigo’s “the cure” has been compared with “Disarm”. Courtney Love also publicly celebrated former Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s appearance, adding to the sense of a cross-generational reunion.

At Lollapalooza in Chicago, Rodrigo performed “Thirty-Three”, only the second time the band have played the *Mellon Collie* single since 2018, following an aftershow performance days earlier. Yungblud joined them for “Luna” after a recent mental-health-related festival cancellation, and Auf der Maur played “The Everlasting Gaze”; the concert was the Pumpkins’ first appearance at their hometown festival in 32 years.