Olivia Rodrigo performs Thirty-Three with Smashing Pumpkins at Lollapalooza

Olivia Rodrigo, Yungblud and former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur joined the Smashing Pumpkins on stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago, marking a rare hometown appearance for the band and a set laced with cross-generational connections. The show mattered as much for its lineage as its guest list: both Rodrigo and Yungblud have drawn direct musical inspiration from the Pumpkins' 1990s output, and their appearances underlined how the band's influence has fed into a younger generation of rock and pop artists.

Rodrigo performed "Thirty-Three", only the second time the Pumpkins have played the Mellon Collie single since 2018, having first revived it days earlier at a Lollapalooza aftershow; her "the cure" has previously been likened to the Pumpkins' "Disarm". Yungblud, returning to the stage after cancelling a separate festival date for mental health reasons, performed "Luna" having already reworked "Zombie" with the band earlier in the year as a deliberate homage to Siamese Dream. Auf der Maur, who recently announced her first new music in 16 years, closed the set with "The Everlasting Gaze", having done the same at the aftershow and in Montreal last year, while former Hole bandmate Courtney Love publicly praised the reunion; the concert was the Pumpkins' first hometown Lollapalooza appearance in 32 years.