Smashing Pumpkins Budokan Merch & Live Report: A Deep Dive into the Japan Tour Experience

The front entrance of the Nippon Budokan. A large banner for The Smashing Pumpkins concert, 'ROCK INVASION 25,' hangs above the entrance, with posters for other concerts on barricades in the foreground.

A Serendipitous Path to The Smashing Pumpkins’ Japan Show The best stories often begin with a simple twist of fate. One evening, after finishing the fifth episode of Netflix’s ‘Alien Earths,’ the ending credits rolled, accompanied by a sound that was unmistakably The Smashing Pumpkins. A jolt went through me. ‘That’s right, it’s this month.’ Continue reading “Smashing Pumpkins Budokan Merch & Live Report: A Deep Dive into the Japan Tour Experience”