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Smashing Pumpkins welcome three guests at Lollapalooza homecoming
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The Smashing Pumpkins marked their first Lollapalooza appearance in 32 years with a hometown headline set featuring surprise guests Olivia Rodrigo, Yungblud and former touring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The collaborations underlined the Chicago band’s enduring influence across generations, while reconnecting them with an important part of their own history.
The band played 17 songs on the Bud Light Stage on 31 July. Yungblud joined them for ‘Luna’, Rodrigo sang ‘Thirty-Three’ with Billy Corgan on acoustic guitar, and Auf der Maur played on closing song ‘The Everlasting Gaze’; she had also performed it with the group at a pre-festival show two nights earlier.
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In short
- Smashing Pumpkins returned to Lollapalooza with three guest appearances.
- Olivia Rodrigo joined Billy Corgan for ‘Thirty-Three’.
- Melissa Auf der Maur played the closing song.
How this story developed
- 4 months ago Yungblud described his performance of ‘Luna’ as a “dream come true”, as further reporting confirmed the 17-song set also included Rodrigo on ‘Thirty-Three’ and Auf der Maur on the closing ‘The Everlasting Gaze’.
- 4 months ago The Smashing Pumpkins headlined Lollapalooza in Chicago on 31 July, bringing out Olivia Rodrigo, Yungblud and former touring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur during their first hometown festival appearance since 1994.
Explained simply
The Smashing Pumpkins are an alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988. Led by singer and guitarist Billy Corgan, they became one of the biggest bands of the 1990s with albums including Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Lollapalooza is a major US music festival founded in 1991, which has long had close links to alternative rock and takes place each year in Chicago. The Smashing Pumpkins played at the festival in its early years, making appearances there especially meaningful because Chicago is their home city.
The group’s line-up and collaborators have changed over time, including former touring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. Olivia Rodrigo and Yungblud are younger artists with large audiences in pop, rock and alternative music, reflecting the way the band’s influence reaches beyond its original generation.
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Originally published by NME as “Watch The Smashing Pumpkins bring out Olivia Rodrigo and Yungblud for Lollapalooza 2026 headline set”.