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  Billy Corgan Calls Old Pumpkins Demo 'A Marriage Made in Hell'

  October 12, 2011 – There's a Grammy-winning Smashing Pumpkins tune from the soundtrack to the godawful 1997 flick Batman and Robin titled "The End Is the Beginning Is the End." For Billy Corgan and Co. this week, the new is the old is the new. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Lean on Classics in L.A.

  October 6, 2011 – Quasar, /?kwâ?zär/, noun: 1. "A massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a star-like image" (Google). 2. The name of the new song the Smashing Pumpkins opened with at their sold-out tour kickoff at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre. 3. …
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  Billy Corgan Details 'Unique' New Pumpkins LP

  September 23, 2011 – It may sound surprising, but it's a great time to be a Smashing Pumpkins fan -- Billy Corgan is only becoming more and more prolific with age. The 44-year-old singer-guitarist just unveiled the tracklist for Oceania, the latest project of many for the revamped Smashing Pumpkins. Corgan took to Twitter Friday morning to say that Oceania, SP's ninth album (due in late November), will run "approx 60 minutes and 9 seconds" over 13 songs. …
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  More 'Siamese'-Era Pumpkins Music Surfaces

  September 12, 2011 – Billy Corgan's online record club is already proving to be a treasure trove for Smashing Pumpkins fans. Corgan launched the service recently by offering up an early version of Pumpkins' 1992 track "Drown" and a two-track demo of "Geek U.S.A.", both for the price of an e-mail address. …
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  Corgan Launches Smashing Pumpkins Record Club

  September 1, 2011 – In the midst of recording Smashing Pumpkins' Oceania album and prepping for a fall tour, Billy Corgan has another project in the works: a record club, dubbed SPRC, which will roll out Pumpkins' rarities online. Corgan announced the project in a video posted on the band's YouTube channel, which you can watch below. …
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  Florence Finishes LP, Pumpkins Plot Tour + More

  August 15, 2011 – Florence and the Machine's Florence Welch has finished recording songs for her second album, and producer Paul Epworth said "there really are no weak ones" among the tunes, adding that he's not sure how her label will be able to choose 10-12 tracks from the lot. "It's a weird record that sounds live in ways and like a machine in others, with sensitivity and power from both music and Flo's voice," Epworth posted on Twitter. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Tap Wrestlers for "Owata" Clip

  June 30, 2011 – Smashing Pumpkins are known for their gorgeous, and often a little weird, music videos -- their clips for "Today," "1979," "Tonight, Tonight," and "Zero" helped define MTV's mid-'90s glory days. And Billy Corgan hasn't given up his visual ambitions. …
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  A Perfect Circle Kick Off Six-Week Tour

  June 30, 2011 – Dropping "An Evening With" in front of a band's name is usually a good indicator that there will be no opening acts. There's a slight air of pretension in that prefix as well -- this is going to be a more sophisticated sit-down, less fist-raising kind of a rock show. The fact that A Perfect Circle led off their six-week U.S. …
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  Corgan and Bjork Reveal New Album Details + More

  June 2, 2011 – Billy Corgan posted the track listing for Smashing Pumpkins' fall album Oceania on Twitter. The titles are tentative, but judging by their names, the record looks to be epic. "Quasar," "Glissandra," "The Chimera," and "Panopticon" are among the dozen songs in the works. …
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  Smashing Pumpkins Release Gorgeous Pop Anthem

  May 4, 2011 – Billy Corgan is only about one quarter of the way through his 44-track opus Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, which he's releasing one track at a time online, but the Smashing Pumpkins leader is showing no signs of fatigue. The singer-guitarist has just released the 10th track of his project, titled "Owata," which you can hear over at L.A. …
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