NASHVILLE |
DATE: SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
RELEASE
SIXTH FREE TRACK “SPANGLED”
SONG WILL FIRST BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD STARTING TODAY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
AT THE SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND WEBSITE FOR 24 HOURS
AND THEN CAN BE FREELY DOWNLOADED AT
AT WWW.SMASHINGPUMPKINS.COM
BAND ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR IN OCTOBER,
TO BE FOLLOWED BY DATES IN SOUTH AMERICA
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS are issuing a brand new track “Spangled” Tuesday, September 14, available exclusively as a free download for 24 hours through the website for The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund: www.sweetrelief.org. Spangled” will then become available the next day (Wednesday, September 15) at www.smashingpumpkins.com where a widget is also offered that enables fans to host the song anywhere on the web. “It’s just a pretty song,” says BILLY CORGAN of “Spangled,” which marks the sixth release from the band’s in-progress 44-song project TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE. It is the second song (the recently released “Freak” was the first) from what will be the band’s second EP–TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE VOLUME 2: THE SOLSTICE BARE –tied to this project.
When visitors go to the Sweet Relief website, they’ll be encouraged to donate to the organization, although it is not a requirement to contribute money when freely downloading the song. The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems. Visitors to the site who donate $10.00 (or more) to the Sweet Musicians Relief Fund can also enter a raffle to win a Fender “Billy Corgan Stratocaster” custom guitar that will be signed by the musician.
The Pumpkins recently raised over $80,000 at their sold-out benefit concert Tuesday, July 27 at Chicago’s Metro for Matthew Leone, bassist for Chicago band Madina Lake. The money is going to the Matthew Leone Fund at Sweet Relief and is helping to pay for the ongoing medical care needed for the musician who this past June was hospitalized with severe brain trauma after intervening to stop a woman he passed on the street from being beaten by her husband.
In touring news, the band–singer/guitarist BILLY CORGAN, guitarist JEFF SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE and bassist NICOLE FIORENTINO–have announced they will return to Australia this October for shows in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. They will also head to South America in November for shows in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
Here are band’s in progress- tour dates:
Tue Sept 14 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
Thu Sept 16 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
Fri Sept 17 Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
Sat Sept 18 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
Mon Sept 20 Austin, TX Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampihitheatre
Tue Sept 21 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Wed Sept 22 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
Fri Sept 24 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
Sat Sept 25 Kansas City, KS Capital Federal Park at Sandstone
Fri Oct 8 Jakarta, Indonesia Java Rockin Land Festival/Carnaval
Tue Oct12 Perth, AU Riverside Theatre
Wed Oct 13 Adelaide, AU Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Fri Oct 15 Melbourne, AU Festival Hall
Sat Oct 16 Sydney, AU Big Top
Sun Oct 17 Brisbane, AU The Tivoli
Thu Nov 18 Buenos Aires, Argentina Luna Park
Sat Nov 20 Sao Paulo, Brazil Planeta Terra Festival
Tue Nov 23 Santiago, Chile Arena Movistar
Thu Nov 25 Lima, Peru Lima Hot Festival
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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