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The Smashing Pumpkins are an influential American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D'Arcy Wretzky, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards. |
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News in english
about The Smashing Pumpkins
(September / 2009)
The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts Date: 01 Sep 2009
SFist -
by Moses Namkung What do you get when you mix members of the Smashing Pumpkins, Hanson, Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick? Apparently... Tinted Windows . Aidan Vaziri at SFGate has an amusing interview with Taylor Hanson, the 26-year old father of four, in which he says, and we quote, "Heroin has a real down side, so I try to stay away from the hard stuff" and "I've figured out what to do with ...
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Smashing Pumpkins Replace Drummer Date: 10 Sep 2009
Billboard -
Drum roll, please. The Smashing Pumpkins have a new member of the band.
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Billy Corgan Gets Spiritual, Man Date: 10 Sep 2009
ChartAttack.com -
Billy Corgan 's descent into hippie-dom continues with the news that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman has launched a spiritual website.
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Billy Corgan's God Complex Date: 11 Sep 2009
NBC Chicago -
Billy Corgan, the only original member of the Smashing Pumpkins, has launched a new spiritual and randomly capitalized website.
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Snares & stares: Smashing Pumpkins drummer rolls through Lansing Date: 11 Sep 2009
City Pulse -
If you didn't walk away with at least a pair of autographed Zildjian drumsticks on Thursday, time spent waiting to meet your childhood inspiration might have felt fantasized.
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Chicago band's next album to be 44 free songs Date: 17 Sep 2009
Chicago Tribune -
What's Billy Corgan been up to lately? Besides cranking out press releases, I mean? In another update Wednesday from Camp Corgan, the Smashing Pumpkins mastermind says he's working on a 44-song album, "Teargarden by Kaleidyscope," which he plans to release for free in a series of digital downloads. Corgan announced on the band's Web site that he would release the songs as he completes them ...
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Smashing Pumpkins Go Free And Online Date: 17 Sep 2009
CMJ -
The Smashing Pumpkins have just announced plans for a new album that ...
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Smashing Pumpkins Go Free With 44-Track Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Date: 17 Sep 2009
ChartAttack.com -
The Smashing Pumpkins are set to unleash a free 44-track (!) album dubbed Teargarden By Kaleidyscope (we're not kidding — that's really the title), which will come out as a series of EPs over the next few months.
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