Exclusive Extract: Craig Schuftan On Billy Corgan's Rejection
album would be everything indie guitar rock was not. He began to define his music against the prevailing aesthetic: if alt rock was cynical, nihilistic and self-deprecating, the Pumpkins ... friends, his critics. He recorded a demo of 'Today' and played it for the Virgin reps. 'They loved it,' he told Dave Thompson. 'Suddenly, all these people were shooting their
