Billy Corgan Visits Toronto's Kops Records

The embers of local record stores never fade / In your city by the lake

Photo via @kopsrecords on Instagram

BY Megan LaPierrePublished Jun 16, 2025

Billy Corgan is currently on tour with his new solo project, Billy Corgan and the Machines of God, celebrating some big anniversaries within the Smashing Pumpkins' catalogue — including Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness turning 30 and Machina turning 25. Corgan and co. played a show at Toronto's History last Thursday (June 12), and while he was in town, he paid a visit to the Kops Records location on Danforth Avenue.

The record store shared on Instagram that Corgan had stopped by ahead of his performance to do a little crate digging, writing, "When we say Kops Danforth has tons of treasures[,] we don't always mean @billycorgan himself, but today we did!"

While true Pumpkins heads may know that the frontman is huge into wrestling, he's also becoming a prolific fan of Toronto record shops, having previously checked out the selection at the now-defunct Shortstack Records while on tour with the band in 2022.

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