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DATE: NOVEMBER 23, 2010
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
OFFICIALLY RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘TOM TOM’
TODAY, NOVEMBER 23 VIA MYSPACE
NEW EP
“TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. II:
THE SOLSTICE BARE”
IN STORES TODAY, NOVEMBER 23
BAND TO WRAP IN-PROGRESS SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR
NOVEMBER 27 AND RETURN TO U.S. DECEMBER 4
FOR A SEVEN-SHOW RUN TO INCLUDE
HEADLINING NIGHT ONE OF KROQ’S ‘ALMOST ACOUSTIC
CHRISTMAS’ SHOW ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11
Set to touch down in America December 4 in Grand Prairie, Texas for a seven-show run after wrapping their six-country South American tour November 27 in Bogota, Columbia, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have officially released their seventh free track “Tom Tom” today, Tuesday, November 23. It is available for 24 hours through MySpace Music and can be downloaded at www.Myspace.com/smashingpumpkins. Then starting Wednesday, November 24, it will be available for free download at www.smashingpumpkins.com; the site also offers a widget enabling fans to host the song anywhere on the web.
“Tom Tom” is also featured on the Pumpkins’ new EP TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. II “THE SOLSTICE BARE,” in stores today, November 23 via Martha’s Music/Rocket Science Ventures. This physical-only four-song EP is a limited-edition, beautifully packaged CD & deluxe 12-inch vinyl picture disc with four songs: “The Fellowship,” “Freak,” “Tom Tom” and “Spangled” as well as an unreleased B-side track, “Cottonwood Symphony.” The lid covering the 12- inch box is a metallic/foil wallpaper motif, with a 1970’s design by The Flavor Paper Co. As with the band’s EP TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. 1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR, which was released in May of this year, quantities are limited worldwide.
TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. II “THE SOLSTICE BARE” marks the second EP to emerge from the band’s in-progress 44-song project TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE, from which songs are being released online, one at a time for free (with four-song physical EPs being issued along the way). “Tom Tom” is the third track to be released from TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOL. II “THE SOLSTICE BARE. The EP’s first single “Freak” earned critical accolades and quickly ascended the U.S. Alternative radio charts. With a cumulative audience of over 20 million, “Freak” received national airplay at the biggest Alternative rock stations in the country. The second release “Spangled” has also earned critical attention, with Spin.com describing it as “a Beatles-esque psychedelic jam written around a harpsichord melody. It builds with drums and a gliding electric guitar riff… (William Goodwin, 9/14/10)”
In touring news, the band–singer/guitarist BILLY CORGAN, guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE and bassist NICOLE FIORENTINO—recently completed two runs of dates in the U.S. plus shows in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand before they embarked on their in-progress tour of South America. The upcoming U.S. shows include headlining such key Christmas radio shows as night one of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday, December 11 in Los Angeles at the Gibson Amphitheatre; KDGE’s How the Edge Stole Christmas in Grand Prairie, Texas on Saturday, December 4 at the Verizon Theatre; KTBZ’s Buzzfestivus in Houston on Sunday, December 5 at the Verizon Wireless Theater; KEXX’s Double Down Concert Series in Chandler, AZ at the Ovations Live Showroom; LIVE 105’s Not So Silent Night in San Jose on Friday, December 10 at HP Pavilion; and 91X’s WREX the Hall in San Diego on Sunday, December 12 at the Viejas Arena.
DATE CITY VENUE
International Dates:
Thu 11/18 Buenos Aires, Argentina Luna Park
Sat 11/20 Sao Paulo, Brazil Planeta Terra Festival
Tue 11/23 Santiago, Chile Arena Movistar
Thu 11/25 Lima, Peru Lima Hot Festival
Sat 11/27 Bogota, Columbia Coliseo El Campin
U.S. Dates:
Sat 12/4 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre (KDGE)
Sun 12/5 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theatre (KTBZ)
Tue 12/7 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
Wed 12/8 Chandler, AZ Ovations Live Showroom (KEXX)
Fri 12/10 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion (LIVE 105)
Sat 12/11 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre (KROQ)
Sun 12/12 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena (91X)
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, such as the first one: Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol 1: Songs For A Sailor, issued May 25, 2010 thru Martha’s Music/Rocket Science Ventures). 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.”
For more information, please contact:
Mitch Schneider: mschneider@msopr.com
Todd Brodginski: toddb@msopr.com
Alexandra Greenberg: agreenberg@msopr.com
MSO: 818-380-0400
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