Billy Corgan and wife Chloe Mendel have welcomed their first son, Augustus Juppiter Corgan, on November 16 according to US Weekly. This is the first child for the singer and artist, who is the manager of Corgan’s Chicago tea house Madame ZuZu’s.

Corgan has remained out of the spotlight for the better part of the second half of the year, resurfacing to pen a eulogy for Scott Weiland. “For when anyone as vaunted leaves far too soon, we mourn all that might have been,” he wrote, also delving into his personal criticism of Stone Temple Pilots over the years.

“It was STP’s 3rd album that had got me hooked, a wizardly mix of glam and post-punk, and I confessed to Scott, as well as the band many times, how wrong I’d been in assessing their native brilliance. And like Bowie can and does, it was Scott’s phrasing that pushed his music into a unique, and hard to pin down, aesthetic sonicsphere.”