NASHVILLE |DATE: APRIL 14, 2010
FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/MITCH SCHNEIDER/ALEXANDRA GREENBERG
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
TO RELEASE FOURTH FREE TRACK “ASTRAL PLANES”
FRIDAY, APRIL 16 VIA AMOEBA.COM
IN ADVANCE OF RECORD STORE DAY
‘TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL.1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR’
IS THE FIRST OF 11 4-SONG EPS TO BE AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION COLLECTIBLE, STARTING MAY 25
GROUP TO PERFORM ‘WIDOW WAKE MY MIND’
ON “TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO”
TUESDAY, APRIL 20
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS will release “Astral Planes,” the fourth track of their epic 44-song TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE project, this Friday, April 16 via the independent Amoeba Records’ website.
The swirling, psychedelicized song will first be available for free download on www.amoeba.com (in the left-hand corner under “Breaking News”) and then, later that day, available for free download via www.smashingpumpkins.com along with three previously released tracks: “A Stitch In Time,” “Widow Wake My Mind” and “A Song For A Son.” The site also offers a widget enabling fans to host the songs anywhere on the web.
“Astral Planes” is the final song to be issued for TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL.1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR, the first of the eventual 11 EPs to be sold in record stores. TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. 1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR is set for official release on May 25th thru Martha’s Music / Rocket Science Ventures. This very limited edition collector’s EP will be packaged in a beautiful collector’s silk-screened wooden box. Each box will contain a 4-song CD, a vinyl 7” and a hand-carved obelisk.
The release of “Astral Planes” comes one day before Record Store Day, which the band will celebrate with a free performance in Los Angeles. The first 250 fans who pre-order the Teargarden… EP on Saturday, April 17, will receive the limited edition black light poster as well as a wristband giving them entry into The Smashing Pumpkins performance from Amoeba and Urban Outfitters Space 15 Twenty later that day. The pre-order is exclusive to independent record stores. By pre-ordering the EP, fans will be guaranteed to own the EP and will immediately receive a collector’s edition Smashing Pumpkins black light poster, while supplies last.
While in Los Angeles, The Smashing Pumpkins will perform “Widow Wake My Mind” on NBC’s “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Tuesday, April 20.
About THE SMASHING PUMPKINS:
The Smashing Pumpkins have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history and sold over 30 million albums. Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential (and platinum) debut in 1991, which was followed by more platinum and multi-platinum albums including the nine-time platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-time platinum Siamese Dream as well as the platinum certified 1998 album Adore. The pivotal group’s many hits defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation. The Pumpkins returned in 2007 with their gold-certified and acclaimed sixth album Zeitgeist, which entered the charts at Number 2 in the U.S. and in the Top Ten internationally. Since their triumphant return to the stage in 2007, the Pumpkins have headlined some of the biggest events around the globe including the Reading Festival, Rock Am Ring, and the V fest. In 2008, the band was inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk. Their first post-major label release was the song “Superchrist,” issued via the Guitar Center CD Fresh Cuts Vol. 2. They subsequently recorded the song–the modern rock hit–“G.L.O.W.” for the Guitar Hero® World Tour game, marking the first time a band has recorded a new song exclusively for the franchise. In November 2008, the band released their first live DVD, If All Goes Wrong. In December 2009 The Smashing Pumpkins began releasing Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, a 44-song work with songs being released online one at a time for free (4-song physical EPs will be made available as the songs are released). The group’s BILLY CORGAN has said the new music “harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins; atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty.”
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