Conan sits down with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins for a conversation about navigating the changing music industry over a 35 year career and the songs that inspired him. Follow along with the full list of songs here: Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)Fade to Black (Metallica)Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.

Billy Corgan discusses family history in wrestling and music, complexities of stage personas, struggles in the music industry, evolution of music distribution, maintaining artistic integrity, and band dynamics under the spotlight of fame.

Billy Corgan, musician and songwriter, discusses Smashing Pumpkins' latest studio album. Topics include their focus on creativity, coping with trauma, creating characters in music, value of authentic conversations, the Anderson Cooper incident, and embracing imperfections.