Former Smashing Pumpkins Drummer's New Band: This

This is former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin's new band. No, seriously, this is what they're called.

The group is a collaborative effort between Chamberlin and The Jackfields' Mike Reina. The two reportedly have written 12 to 15 "progressive, symphonic pop" songs (now you have a description other than "They sound like This") for an album that they plan to start recording in January, according to Paste magazine. But who knows when it'll actually come out.

"I haven't done a website at all because I hate talking about music and I hate blogging and I'm just not into talking about how great something's going to be when it comes out because it's just so much work," he told the University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign's WPGU FM.

Hmm. That seems in marked contrast to one of his former bandmates, who is an avid blogger and always talks about his upcoming work... Thinly veiled Billy Corgan diss on Chamberlin's part?

Chamberlin left the Smashing Pumpkins in April. He joined the Pumpkins in 1988, but was fired from the band in 1996 after he and touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin overdosed on heroin and Melvoin died.

Chamberlin rejoined the band in 1998 and played on their albums until the Pumpkins broke up in 2000. He also played with Corgan in Zwan, the short-lived group featuring A Perfect Circle's Paz Lechantin, Matt Sweeney and former Slint guitarist David Pajo. Chamberlin was also part of the reformed Smashing Pumpkins with Corgan in 2006.