PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Smashing Pumpkins are making their way to the Moda Center this fall in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
The 2026 “The Rats In A Cage Tour” kicks off in late September in Ohio before traveling around the United States and Canada with a Portland stop on Nov. 1.
Each tour date will feature two sets, the first celebrating Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the second highlighting other hits from their nearly four-decade-long career.
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“Staging a Mellon Collie-themed show is something we’ve discussed for over a decade, and finally the stars have aligned and exactly on the terms I’d set: which was to build a special night around its most enduring aspirations and ideas,” Billy Corgan said. “With set 1 of the Rats In A Cage tour exclusively featuring Mellon Collie songs in a highly theatrical setting, and set 2 drawing from the rest of our canon so that there’s a decent amount of variance as to what songs we’ll play from night to night: from our first in ‘Gish’ to our last in ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’.”…