Watch Smashing Pumpkins reunite with Melissa Auf der Maur and bring out ‘The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams at Lollapalooza pre-show

The Smashing Pumpkins played a pre-Lollapalooza show in Chicago recently, and brought out their former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams as special guests. READ MORE: Billy Corgan on his new podcast ‘The Magnificent Others’: “I’d like to celebrate people in the culture who are misunderstood” The gig took place on Wednesday night (July 29), as the ‘90s alt icons took to the stage at Riviera Theatre ahead of their set at Lollapalooza 2026 tonight (Friday July 31). For the set, Billy Corgan and co. broke out some more deep cuts than usual – playing ‘Dorian’ for the first time since 2015, ‘Thirty-Three’ for the first time since 2018, and breaking out ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ track ‘War Dreams of Itself’ for the first time ever. After kicking off the show with ‘1979’, ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ and ‘Edin’, the band broke out other fan favourites including ‘Tonight, Tonight’, ‘Jellybelly’ and ‘Disarm’, before mixing things up by welcoming Barry Williams to the stage. Williams is best known for playing Greg Brady on the classic sitcom The Brady Bunch, and came out to perform a cover of ‘It’s a Sunshine Day’ with Corgan – a song originally performed by the Brad...