
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have announced a 14-date tour of “intimate” venues that will begin on July 6 in Cleveland and finish up on July 24 in Memphis.

In support of their upcoming record Teargarden By Kaleidoscope, The Smashing Pumpkins have released a new single on their official website.

Smashing Pumpkins will make their new album, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, available for free via the internet a track at a time.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan debuted a new song at a tribute concert in Los Angeles on Friday.

Billy Corgan defended his decision to keep performing under the name the Smashing Pumpkins in a long, rambling blog post last week on the band’s official Website.

Source: NME.com
Mike Byrne, drummer for Oregon-based band Moses, Smell the Roses apparently landed the gig after working for a week with Corgan last month, and blogged on his MySpace page that he was “off for another couple of weeks at Pumpkin camp”, reports Hipstersunited.com.
The Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman Billy Corgan previously …