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December 12-18, 2002 musicpicks ZwanViewed through The Smashing Pumpkins' "official" new bootleg DVD, Billy Corgan, hair or no hair -- despite fleeting moments of alterna-cred -- always wanted to be a prog-folk-metal six-string hero. Page, Ronson, Fripp and the three-guitar frontline of Blue Öyster Cult inform every lick, be it the goth-gauzy acoustic "Mayonnaise," the fiery "Silverfuck," the whiny "I Am One." So it's natural, once he derailed the Pumpkins, that Zwan -- Corgan's new Reprise label act with ex-Smashing drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, Slint-demigod/guitarist David Pajo and Chavez chugger Matt Sweeney -- would be post-prog wank filled with hard-art bursts of guitar textures and near-polyrhythmic pustules of percussion on their 2003 debut, Mary Star of The Sea. But beyond all this misty mountain hopping, Corgan's finally relaxed his whinnying vocal timbres and become a nuanced and noirish crooner. Such a nice surprise. Sun., Dec. 15, 6 p.m., $29.50-$38.50, part of the Y100 Feastival, with Coldplay, New Found Glory, Queens Of The Stone Age, Seether and Good Charlotte, First Union Center, 3601 S. Broad St., 215-336-2000. 
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