The Smashing Pumpkins perform on their The Rats in a Cage Tour, celebrating their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at 30.
The Smashing Pumpkins are playing the Spectrum Center on Friday, October 16, as part of their The Rats in a Cage Tour. It's a big night for them: they're celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the double album that defined their mid-nineties run. If you've spent any time with that record, you know it's a sprawling thing, and this tour is built around it.
Instead of one long set, they're splitting the evening into two unique sets. One focuses on Mellon Collie, and the other pulls from the rest of their catalog. Between the two, they're covering nearly four decades of the band's unruly hits and dark treasures, so you'll hear the big songs alongside the deeper cuts they don't always bring out. It's a way of honoring that one specific album without ignoring everything else they've put out since.
The tour title, The Rats in a Cage, takes its name from one of the album's most aggressive tracks, and that energy carries through the whole run. The band describes the show as a celebration of Mellon Collie at 30, and the two-set format gives them room to lean into that anniversary while still working through the broader history they've built over the years.
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The show starts at 8 PM at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte. Tickets are available through the venue and Live Nation.
