Smashing Pumpkins announce new album.

[Jay Weishaupt]

Reunited Smashing Pumpkins Hit The Studio posted on Aug 18 2006 10:52 am The following article was originally posted over at Billboard.com (http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003018864):

According to a short post on its Web site (http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/), the reunited SMASHING PUMPKINS are recording their first album in seven years with producer Roy Thomas Baker, who is best known for his work with QUEEN but resurfaced last year to produce the sophomore album from THE DARKNESS.

Beyond frontman Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, it is still unclear who else is involved in the new incarnation of the PUMPKINS. The group is now being managed by Irving Azoff, who also works with Christina Aguilera and THE EAGLES.

Corgan stunned fans in June 2005 when he took out a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times announcing his intentions to "renew and "revive" the PUMPKINS, who split acrimoniously in 2000.

In 2004, he broke his silence about why the band dissolved, lashing out at guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky for walking away from an endeavor he described as "essentially my entire life... a dream I still believe in."

[PU$$YCONTIN]

old smashing pumpkings is the SHIT! melon collie and the infinite sadness is dope as fuck

[Catfish Hunter]

Yeah I was listening to Gish the other day and I recognized a couple riffs they ripped off from Black Sabbath. The first couple Smashing Pumpkins albums are pretty damn good, I still listen to them now and again, they bring back memories of when I was a carefree young teenage lad.

[PU$$YCONTIN]

fuck yea catfish.. siemease dream was good too

but melloncollie and the infinite sadness cd is so great i love it and yea it does bring back memories.. im about to download all their cds right now hard as fuck

[Revenant]

This could be good news. Always liked their stuff and it's nice to hear from bands that take me back to a better time music wise.

[PU$$YCONTIN]

HAAHAHHAH CARPE YOUR SIG!!!!!!


and yea i agree man back in the times of STP and Nirvana.. back when u would hear a new accoustic alice and chains song and be like "fuck yea this is good music"

[Catfish Hunter]

I remember when the Alice in Chains album Dirt came out...I was so excited to hear it, I was getting ready to go to Tower Records with my birthday money to go buy it when my best friend stopped by my house...for my birthday present he had bought me the shiny cassette version of that very album! Fuck man I was so stoked, I put it in in my stereo and it didn't come out until months later.

[PU$$YCONTIN]

fuck yea catfish dirt is such a good album

them bones... angry chair.. damn that river.. would?.. so many classics on DIRT

[ChristCrusher]

melloncollie and the infinite sadness cd is so great

I had it on cassette... :lol:

[Dane]

this dude always kinda creeped me out. Strange looking dude. I don't remember their music much

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3049/2005291558532012ji1.jpg

[Bernstar]

Old Smashing Pumpkins shit was definitely real good. Billy Corgan is kinda a fag though now. I'm a little skeptical about this new joint. Still gonna give it a listen when it drops.

[Streetie]

i thought they broke up

i listened to them back in the day, but basically, if you grew up in the 90's america, you HAD to listen to them

[Bernstar]

they did break up, pretty sure billy boy went on to form the failure of a group zwan or somethign. now i guess they're getting back together

[Bigradgeandy]

furst delete this thread.

[ChristCrusher]

SMASHING PUMPKINS Break Silence On New Album - Oct. 24, 2006

Launch Radio Networks reports: The SMASHING PUMPKINS have broken the silence surrounding the band's first new album since its break-up in 2000. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin — or least someone with the initials "JC" writing under the heading "Jimmy's Love Letters" — has posted two messages to the band's MySpace page regarding the progress of the PUMPKINS' comeback disc. In the first post, Chamberlin wrote, "Great things are on track for the future. As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it. We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place."

In the second and latest post, dated Friday, October 20, Chamberlin writes that "things are sounding fantastic" and discusses working with producer Roy Thomas Baker, who has produced QUEEN and THE CARS, among others.

The group is also working with PANTERA and SOUNDGARDEN producer Terry Date.

Band founder Billy Corgan announced the reactivation of the SMASHING PUMPKINS last year. Aside from himself and Chamberlin, it is unknown whether original guitarist James Iha, original bassist D'Arcy Wretzky or latter-day bass player Melissa Auf der Maur will be involved in the project.

No release date or title has been revealed for the new PUMPKINS album.

[Jay Weishaupt]

Smashing Pumpkins - Summon 'Symphony' In Studio posted on Nov 21 2006 11:18 am Billboard.com (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410660) reports: THE SMASHING PUMPKINS are more than halfway home on their first album since 2000, according to posts from drummer Jimmy Chamberlin on the group's MySpace.com site. "We have been working day and night in the studio and I am happy to say that the drums are finished!," he wrote earlier this month. "After almost a year of work, to finally sit down and listen to the drum takes, one after another, was a truly joyful experience."

Last week, he chronicled a "magnificent guitar symphony" from Billy Corgan featuring "eight guitars resonating in one big harmonic handshake. It is still ringing in my ears this morning."

His posts carefully worded to avoid any mention of song titles or acknowledgement of who, if anybody, is working with he and Corgan in the studio, Chamberlin has also thanked "the GRATEFUL DEAD, RUSH [and] BILLY THORPE for their guidance in this hour of need."

"I can honestly say that this has been one of the most musically satisfying and spiritually rewarding trips I have ever been on," he added.

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Terry Date, the as-yet-untitled album is expected in late spring, with a tour to follow. No label affiliation has yet been announced; Corgan has released all of his post-PUMPKINS work on Reprise.

[ToXiKoN]

all of smashing pumpkins albums are great

[Tone Space]

aww man thats gonna be hot.