{"id":2072275,"date":"2026-08-01T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072275"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:27:22","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-and-yungblud-join-smashing-pumpkins-for-surprise-lollapalooza-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072275","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo and Yungblud Join Smashing Pumpkins for Surprise Lollapalooza Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSmashing Pumpkins turned their Lollapalooza headline set into a generational summit on Thursday (July 31), with Billy Corgan bringing out Olivia Rodrigo and Yungblud as surprise guests for a pair of nineties deep cuts in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe set marked the Chicago-bred band\u2019s first Lollapalooza headlining slot in 32 years \u2014 they last played the festival in 1994, during its original touring incarnation, on a bill alongside the Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Green Day. Corgan, a lifelong Chicagoan, had spent the week leading up to the performance staging a hometown celebration dubbed \u201cPumpkinpalooza,\u201d including a sold-out underplay show at the 2,500-capacity Riviera Theatre, a merch pop-up near Grant Park, and a roving version of Madame Zuzu\u2019s, the teahouse he owns with wife Chlo\u00e9 Mendel.<\/p>\n

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\n\tYungblud arrived first onstage, taking his spot less than an hour after his own festival set to sing \u201cLuna,\u201d the closing track from the band\u2019s 1993 breakthrough Siamese Dream<\/em>. The British rocker, dressed in black to match Corgan, handled the song\u2019s soaring falsetto as Corgan backed him on guitar. \u201cThis is a f\u2014ing dream come true,\u201d Yungblud told the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo followed, introduced by Corgan as \u201ca very, very special guest.\u201d She appeared in a sheer dress and knee-high stockings to sing \u201cThirty-Three,\u201d the fifth single from the band\u2019s 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness<\/em>, with Corgan switching to acoustic guitar as the stage was bathed in red light.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe pairings carried a certain lineage. Rodrigo has been open about the influence nineties alt-rock had on her sound, and both guests represent chart eras the Pumpkins helped make possible. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness<\/em> remains the band\u2019s commercial high point \u2014 it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1995 with 246,500 first-week units, the only Pumpkins album ever to top the chart, and was certified diamond by the RIAA for sales exceeding 10 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tIts singles ran deep: \u201c1979\u201d became the band\u2019s biggest Hot 100 hit at No. 12 and their only No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, while \u201cBullet With Butterfly Wings\u201d won the 1997 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The album earned seven Grammy nominations in all. Siamese Dream<\/em>, the source of \u201cLuna,\u201d has been certified four-times platinum.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo, for her part, arrived as one of the defining pop breakouts of the decade. Her 2021 debut SOUR<\/em> and its 2023 follow-up GUTS<\/em> both entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, and she has scored multiple Hot 100 chart-toppers, including \u201cDrivers License,\u201d \u201cGood 4 U\u201d and \u201cVampire.\u201d Yungblud has been threading the same alternative lineage: he won his first Grammy earlier this year, for Best Rock Performance, for his rendition of \u201cChanges\u201d at Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s farewell Black Sabbath concert, and his Aerosmith collaboration EP One More Time<\/em> reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in November.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guest spots capped a week of nineties nostalgia. At a Lollapalooza aftershow earlier in the run, the Pumpkins brought out actor Barry Williams \u2014 Greg from The Brady Bunch<\/em> \u2014 to perform the sitcom\u2019s Seventies novelty hit \u201cIt\u2019s a Sunshine Day,\u201d and reunited with former touring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur for \u201cThe Everlasting Gaze,\u201d from 2000\u2019s Machina\/The Machines of God<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe band now turns to its most ambitious outing in years: The Rats in the Cage tour, launching Sept. 30 in Columbus, Ohio, built around a set marking the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness<\/em> alongside a career-spanning second act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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