Here's some of the strangest music news to hit the Internet this week:

Smashing Pumpkins fans still peeved about the "reunited" alt-rock band's lackluster 20th anniversary tour, well, this might ease your pain: Billy Corgan has just announced the release of Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, a new 44-track (!) album, which will be rolled out in a series of EPs over the coming

Smashing Pumpkins main man Billy Corgan launched his latest endeavor, Spirits in the Sky, last night at the tiny, 225-capacity Cellar Door in Visalia, California, with Jane's Addiction axeman Dave Navarro, fresh from his band's massive tour with Nine Inch Nails, joining in on guitar.

The life and times of Smashing Pumpkins is like a daytime soap opera.

A Billy Corgan-fronted group called Spirits in the Sky performed a new Smashing Pumpkins song at a tribute concert for psych-rock pioneer Sky "Sunlight" Saxon in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and No Doubt have joined an already extensive (and eclectic) list of artists whose songs will appear on Guitar Hero 5, due in stores September 1.