Tonight marks day two of the Smashing Pumpkins performances at Constitution Hall in DC. Also in DC are Colour Revolt and Rose Hill Drive who play DC9 while Diplo's tour rolls into town at the Black Cat with No Age, Abe Vigoda, 8 Bit Boy, and Telepathe. Over at the Velvet Lounge, The Sounds of [...]
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A Smashing Pumpkins reunion with the band's original line-up is not looking good, folks. (Sorry Gish fans).Yesterday former and founding members of the alternative rock band -- James Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky-Brown -- slapped Virgin Records with a lawsuit, claiming they were overlooked in royalties for music downloads and other digital media (I'm thinking ringtones and etc). They are demanding a ...
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While they fight for artistic integrity and fall more and more into 1990's obscurity, the Smashing Pumpkins have announced that they will be heading out on a intimate August run and a not so intimate 20th Anniversary tour in November. The tours will sort of serve as a warm-up to that Gish tour everyone has been hoping for, which has now been pushed back to early 2009.While the intimate August r...
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To capture the mood of our times with the album cover for ZEITGEIST—the forthcoming album by THE SMASHING PUMPKINS—the band turned to acclaimed Obey Giant graphic designer and illustrator Shepard Fairey. After being given the album’s title to work with, Fairey came up with a haunting image: it’s a red, black and white illustration of a drowning Statue of Liberty, positioned in front of the
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Want to guarantee free tickets to Smashing Pumpkins shows, here's your chance. The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for five new writers for their Web site, or as they put it "the Smashing Pumpkins Media Militia." According to a "blog post on their MySpace page":http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=9685952&blogID=357643545 the positions will be paid, but considered part-...
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Billy Corgan wants more cha-ching. Seems Zeitgeist didn’t bring in the usual big dough for the band. Now Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records, their home during the release of Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, and Machina/The Machines of God saying the label used the band’s name in promotional deals that hurt the band's credibility with fans.More specifically,
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After announcing their two summer residencies (Asheville’s Orange Peel and San Francisco’s Fillmore) earlier this week, the Smashing Pumpkins have released the cover art for their first album in nine years, Zeitgeist. The band hired artist Shepard Fairey who came up with the idea of the Staute of Liberty drowning in water, or even could be blood (it depends how deep you want to get). Cover of
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Terry Staunton made a post earlier today of musical happenings that took place 10 years ago. You can read that post here http://mog.com/blog_post/view/58389. I like news bits like this and have even done a few of my own posts with news from the past. I thought I would offer my own pieces to the musical puzzle.2002, Paul McCartney kicked off the first leg of his 19 date ‘Driving USA’ North Amer
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The Smashing Pumpkins will headline the KROQ LA Invasion concert on September 15th. But other stellar acts on the bill for the single day event include Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Chris Cornell, Cypress Hill and Perry Farrell's Satellite Party. The concert will take place at the Home Depot Center at Cal State Dominguez Hills and tickets for the event go on sale this Saturday August 18th. Ti...
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The Smashing Pumpkins album Zeitgeist doesn't come out until July 10th, but the band just released a very random video for its first single "Tarantula." The Pumpkins are in the middle of their Asheville, North Carolina residency and will head west, following New York's Live Earth concert on July 7th, to play eleven nights at San Francisco's Fillmore.
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Now that the Beatles have joined the Rock Band revolution, any remaining holdouts (fearing being called a “sellout”) have decided to join the party. Most notably, U2 now want some of that yummy video game cash. Bassist Adam Clayton claims the band...
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Fans who missed the Smashing Pumpkins’ first show back in seven years at Paris’ Grand Rex on May 22, 2007 can let out a little sigh of relief. The band has released their first official video from the 2007 tour via their MySpace page. All the footage is from the Pumpkins’ first show in Paris, including load-in, soundcheck, backstage and preformance footage. This is the first official video i
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As previously reported, frontman Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin of Smashing Pumpkins gave fans the opportunity to send in video recorded questions via Youtube which in turn would be answered in like fashion. The arrangement is called 'Ask A Pumpkin' and tackled the tough questions, for instance, why Paris Hilton? The band sifted through over a hundred questions and responded to a fe...
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You probably weren’t there. I wasn’t there. But you know that the 2,200 people that filled up Paris’ Grand Rex venue last night for the first Smashing Pumpkins performance in seven years will be rubbing it in our faces till the day we die. The revamped Pumpkins, original singer-songwriter and guitarist Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin along with new guitarist Jeff Schroeder, bassist Ginger
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The Smashing Pumpkins are currently in the middle of a sold out 11 night stand at The Fillmore in San Francisco. The run started July 15th and reportedly, the band has been doing a decent job blending their old hits with their new songs, but it's been said by fans "it still feels nothing like the old days".Corgan has been quoted as saying at one of the first performances he is "under the weathe...
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