THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Announce ‘Mellon Collie’ 30th Anniversary Tour

The Smashing Pumpkins are going all-in on one of the greatest double albums ever made. Billy Corgan and company just announced The Rats In A Cage Tour, a 27-date North American run celebrating the 30th anniversary of *Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness* ^*. Kicking off September 30, 2026 in Columbus, Ohio and wrapping November 12 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, each show will deliver two distinct sets—one featuring the complete *Mellon Collie* album front-to-back, the other pulling deep cuts and classics from nearly four decades of Pumpkins history ^*†. If you've been waiting to hear "1979," "Tonight, Tonight," "Zero," and "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" in the same night alongside the album tracks that made *Mellon Collie* a diamond-certified monster, this is your moment ^*.

The tour hits major markets including Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, and Seattle ^†, and the band has tacked on two festival appearances outside the main routing—Lollapalooza in Chicago on July 31 and Darker Waves in Huntington Beach on November 14 ^†. Pre-sales start May 19 for Citi cardmembers and Verizon Access, followed by Live Nation All Access on May 20, with general public tickets going live May 21 at 10:00 a.m. local time ^*. Originally released October 24, 1995, *Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness* earned seven Grammy nominations including Album Of The Year and Record Of The Year, and UMe dropped a deluxe reissue last November packed with eighty minutes of previously unreleased recordings from the 1996 tour ^*.

The Pumpkins have been on a nostalgia tear lately—they re-released *Machina/The Machines Of God* for its 25th anniversary last summer and put out the new album *Aghori Mhori Mei* in 2024 ^*. But *Mellon Collie* remains the crown jewel, the sprawling, ambitious double LP that defined mid-'90s alt-rock ambition and proved a band could swing for the fences and connect. Hearing it live in full is going to be massive.

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^* The Smashing Pumpkins announce fall 2026 The Rats In A Cage tour — Blabbermouth, May 18, 2026 — https://blabbermouth.net/news/the-smashing-pumpkins-announce-fall-2026-the-rats-in-a-cage-tour
^† Smashing Pumpkins announce 30th anniversary tour for Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album — Corey Irwin, Loudwire, May 18, 2026 — https://loudwire.com/smashing-pumpkins-mellon-collie-anniversary-tour-2026/