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Smashing Pumpkins Hold Drummer Auditions

April 1, 2009

Now that drummer/Smashing Pumpkins co-founder Jimmy Chamberlin is officially out of the band, Billy Corgan has sent out a mass E-mail with details about auditions for his replacement. "Auditions will be held Friday, 10 April in Los Angeles for drummers who are looking to play with The Smashing Pumpkins," Corgan wrote. "They should send their background .....

March 26, 2009

Billy Corgan announced the seemingly sudden departure of Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin on Sunday, adding that the frontman "will continue to write and record as Smashing Pumpkins with plans to head into the studio this spring." No further explanation was given as to whether Chamberlin quit or was kicked out (just like the 1996 incident .....

December 4, 2008

"Love is suicide," bellowed Billy Corgan during the second show of The Smashing Pumpkins' two-night stand at The Gibson Amphitheater. There's a simple brilliance to many of Corgan's lyrics, and that particular line from "Bodies," off Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, is no exception. The whole crowd chanted that chorus along with Corgan midway .....

December 4, 2008

December 3, 2008

During the first night of The Smashing Pumpkins' two-show stop at the Gibson Amphitheater, it felt like 1995 at Universal Citywalk. The "Jurassic Parking" structure resembled a scene from Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The smell of marijuana and stale beer wafted through the air, while various late twenty-somethings and early thirty-somethings clad in "Zero" .....

September 24, 2008

Smashing Pumpkins have revealed the details behind their rather ambitious "20th Anniversary Tour," which includes a month of dates and a number of two-night residencies in such major cities as Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto. The band will also play four nights in their hometown of Chicago.The plan is to play alternating sets by the names of "Black .....

September 17, 2008

A little more than a year after their pseudo reunion, the Smashing Pumpkins have decided to release a 2-DVD set chronicling their 19-show residency in Asheville, NC, and San Francisco, CA, last summer."We went into the residencies hopeful to play some new music, with the idea I would write during the day and we could maybe even play new songs that same .....

September 3, 2008

Smashing Pumpkins have announced a number of tie-ins with next month's Guitar Hero: World Tour release, including an exclusive single ("G.L.O.W.," available as a downloadable song pack along with "1979" and "The Everlasting Gaze") and the ability to play the game as Billy Corgan. The Pumpkins classic "Today" is also part of the initial soundtrack. Guitar .....

March 27, 2008

The Smashing Pumpkins have filed a lawsuit against their former label, Virgin Records, for damaging their reputation and image after the unapproved use of their name, music and image in a "Pepsi Stuff Promotion" presented by the soft drink company and Amazon.com."It's a frustrating situation honestly to be treated so poorly by a label where we had so .....

January 3, 2008

"The Rose March," a live show staple from Billy Corgan's Future Embrace-era, has been selected as one of four unreleased songs on the new Smashing Pumpkins EP, American Gothic. The iTunes exclusive is now available in a deluxe edition of the band's latest album, Zeitgeist, either on an a la carte basis of 99-cents per song or as part of a $15.99 package .....