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Smashing Pumpkins Announce Live at the Viper Room 1998 Vinyl
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins took to Instagram today to announce the upcoming arrival of their newest live vinyl, Live at the Viper Room 1998. “The thing you hear in the Viper Room show is you’re really sort of being allowed into the studio where the songs don’t have the accouterment of all the bells and whistles,” Corgan said in the Instagram clip. Continuing, Corgan said, “There’s a certain innocence before songs are released to the world.” Pre-order of the vinyl is available exclusively through Madame ZuZu’s site (Corgan’s plant-based tea shop) on July 31. A couple of months back, Smashing Pumpkins shared their first archival release, Live in Japan, 1992 LP in an incredibly limited way. It was also available on Madame Zuzu’s site but for 24 hours only. The May release was part ...
Smashing Pumpkins Announce Live in Japan, 1992 LP
Smashing Pumpkins’ debut album Gish turned 30 this week, and to celebrate the band announced its first archival release: Live in Japan, 1992. The limited edition live album will be released as a double LP on purple swirl, 180g vinyl. “Audio is from a board tape and is not available anywhere else,” the band wrote on Instagram. The setlist is from their show at Kawasaki Japan’s Club Citta in Feb. 1992 and includes banter and extended songs. The LP will only be available for 24 hours via Madame ZuZu’s website (Billy Corgan’s tea shop). The standard runs $70 and a recorded signed by Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain is available for $170. Live in Japan, 1992 is available for pre-order here, and the Pumpkins promise the image on Instagram is not the cover art. Chec...
Smashing Pumpkins Drop Two New CYR Tracks
As if the Smashing Pumpkins haven’t already given fans enough of a treat with the announcement of their new album, CYR, they’re back Friday with something more. For New Music Friday, the guys — consisting of founding members Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin and late-era guitarist Jeff Schroeder — shared two new songs off the upcoming November release: “Wrath” and “Confessions of a Dopamine Addict.” “Wrath” is a spacey single with some ’80s synths and hypnotizing backing vocals, while “Confessions” hears Corgan singing of distance. The two tracks released before tomorrow’s drop of the first two episodes of “In Ashes,” the Pumpkins’ new five-part animated series, created by Corgan. The series is animated by Deep Sky and offers a “fantastical and surreal” sci-fi advent...
