Photo: Chad FahnestockSmashing PumpkinsFriday, December 6, 2008Ogden TheatreBetter than: the band's Red Rocks show last year.Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan said he the stomach flu the day before Friday's show, but it didn't stop the guy from soldiering through nearly three hours of new songs, hits, obscurities, solo acoustic cuts, covers and psych-rock jams during the band's stop in Denver on its 20th anniversary tour.
​All right, a few weeks ago we offered up our take on the ten worst moments of crossover disaster, ill-advised efforts to mate movies with music. Now it's time to look at the flip side of the coin, the ten movies in which music and Hollywood made great bedfellows, outstanding cinematic turns that were win-win in terms of elevating the film and as being a boon to the artist in question. Follow the jump for the full list.
​Nitzer Ebb, from Essex, England, helped to define the musical style
called EBM with its heavy industrial rhythms and stark vocals. As with
emo, another much-maligned genre, EBM started out as a vital
and relevant music whose pioneers never chose to name with a blanket
term to encompass a music that didn't fit within strict boundaries.
Ebb's landmark debut full-length, That Total Age, displayed a feisty
aggression and defiance couched in stark yet eminently danceable music
that sounded equal p
