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June 3rd, 2010 |
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The Smashing Pumpkins Announce Intimate U.S. Tour Dates Starting July 6
In Advance
of Headline
Slots at Two
Summer Sonic
Festivals in
Japan |
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The SMASHING PUMPKINS have
announced a 12-show run of
intimate venues beginning July 6
in Cleveland and wrapping July
21 in Tampa. This marks the
iconic band’s first tour since
December 2008 and will feature,
says leader and founder BILLY
CORGAN, “a balance of classics,
a few obscure ones, and new
‘Teargarden’ material.” Last
week, the Pumpkins released the
four-song TEARGARDEN BY
KALEIDYSCOPE VOL.1: SONGS FOR A
SAILOR EP (Martha’s Music/Rocket
Science Ventures). This is the
first of an eventual 11
specially packaged EPs--taken
from the in-progress 44-song
work TEARGARDEN BY
KALEIDYSCOPE--to be sold in
record stores. Notably, all the
music is being released online,
for free, with no strings
attached.
CORGAN and his
band mates--guitarist JEFF
SCHROEDER, drummer MIKE BYRNE
and new bassist NICOLE
FIORENTINO—are planning to
invite select fans to attend
their sound checks (details
TBA). “We are going to do
something unique, which is play
an invite-only set during sound
check of almost all new,
unreleased songs,” says Billy.
“We're still figuring out a way
to make it possible for some of
the fans who'll be in the line
outside waiting to get in for
that.”
Rehearsals for
the tour “have been fantastic,”
adds Billy. “I haven't been this
comfortable in a band situation
since about 1995. Musically, we
seem to have wound our way back
to a more kinetic, electric, and
psychedelic sound that reminds
me of SP in Gish-Siamese era.”
The decision to play
intimate venues keeps in line
with the Pumpkins’
“long-standing tradition of
trying to start up new tours at
smaller venues because it allows
the band the opportunity to take
some chances musically,”
explains Billy. The band has
been recording and rehearsing in
Los Angeles, and recently
broadcast a full session live
online:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-coldwater-studio
After the U.S. dates,
the Pumpkins will head to Japan
for four shows, including
headline performances at two
Summer Sonic festivals in
Japan--August 7 in Tokyo (Marine
Stadium) and August 8 in Osaka
(Maishima)--to be followed by
two headline dates in Tokyo
(August 10 and 11 at Studio
Coast).
The very limited
edition collector’s EP
TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE
VOL.1: SONGS FOR A SAILOR (“A
Stitch In Time,” “Widow Wake My
Mind,” “A Song For A Son” and
“Astral Planes”) is packaged in
a beautiful silk-screened wooden
box. Each box contains a 4-song
CD, a vinyl 7” and a hand-carved
obelisk from the shadows of the
Incan ruins in Machu Picchu. Of
the first EP, Jerry Shriver of
USA Today described the music as
“a delicious swirl of howling
psychedelic rock and melodic
ballads (5/25/10)," while Edna
Gundersen (also of USA Today)
singled out the song “A Stitch
In Time,” noting that “Billy
Corgan binds a pretty melody to
shimmery acoustic pop
psychedelia, thus extending his
brand's relevancy (6/1/10).”
Elsewhere, Mikael Wood of the
Los Angeles Times cited the
“jammy, psychedelic side, with
winding song structures, lyrics
about endless seas and astral
planes, and buckets of
circa-'70s guitar fuzz
(5/26/10).”
The Pumpkins
also plan to tour South America
and Australia in 2010 and hope
to return to the U.S. later this
year.
Here are the tour
dates:
TUE 7/6
Cleveland, OH House of Blues
THU 7/8 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit
Room
FRI 7/9 Columbus, OH
Newport Music Hall
SAT 7/10
Louisville, KY Forecastle
Festival
MON 7/12 Baltimore,
MD Rams Head Live
TUE 7/13
Richmond,VA The National
THU
7/15 Norfolk, VA The Norva
FRI 7/16 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
SAT 7/17 Charleston, SC
Music Farm
MON 7/19 Orlando,
FL House of Blues
TUE 7/20
Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
WED 7/21 Tampa, FL Ritz
SAT 8/7 Tokyo Marine Stadium /
Messe
SUN 8/8 Osaka Maishima
/ Summer Sonic Site
TUE 8/10
Tokyo Tokyo Studio Coast
WED
8/11 Tokyo Tokyo Studio Coast
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