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I Read The News Today... For June 2, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 2, 2011 3:48 pm
It's not every day you pick up Bono hitchhiking, like Edmonton Oiler right winger Gilbert Brule did. Kittie are touring the U.S. this summer. Appropriately, their website still looks like it's from 2001. Edmonton singer/songwriter Eamon McGrath is taking his tunes on the road this summer. If the upcoming Holy Ship! cruise isn't your thing, maybe...
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I Read The News Today... For May 10, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) May 10, 2011 4:23 pm
30 Seconds To Mars say they're going to take a hiatus after their current tour and probably not do anything for "10 years." Aka... they're done. Billy Corgan says he's writing a "spiritual memoir" about his time with the Smashing Pumpkins. He's sounding more and more like the bald version of Jeff Martin these days... Bjork's launched a trippy new...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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Ex-Smashing Pumpkin D'Arcy Wretzky Arrested Because Of Horse Problem

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 10, 2011 3:07 pm
Former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky came out of relative obscurity this Tuesday, when she was arrested for "failure to control her horses."After years of barely any contact with anyone, the recluse spontaneously phoned in to Chicago's Q101 FM in 2009 to say she had been living on a horse farm in Michigan. TMZ reports Wretzky was...
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The Smashing Pumpkins — Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2: The Solstice Bare

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) November 25, 2010 2:52 pm
Billy Corgan's latest adventure, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, is supposedly a 44-song concept album based on the Tarot, which is being released incrementally and packaged as four-song EP sets. Considering the project's name, concept, and the fact that Corgan spent gobs of the last couple years forming a Sky Saxon tribute band called Spirits In The...
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I Read The News Today... For July 30, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 30, 2010 10:27 am
Strung Out have announced a pretty huge Canadian tour that'll take place late next month and in early September. —MySpace Former Dr. Dog drummer Juston Stens is giving away an EP he made with his band, The Get Real Gang. —parkthevan.com Yo, nerdy hipsters! Here's your chance to win something for being a dork who likes Scott...
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Billy Corgan Collapses On Stage

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 23, 2010 10:30 am
Plenty of people fall on stage or pass out, but most of them remember they've fallen when they wake up. But after Billy Corgan collapsed on stage, he apparently had no memory of the event at all. Corgan was performing with The Smashing Pumpkins at the Ritz Ybor in Tampa, Fla. on Wednesday when he fell over during Mellon Collie And The...
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Smashing Pumpkins Get New Bassist

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By Kate MacRae (CHARTattack) May 11, 2010 4:13 pm
After the departure of Ginger Pooley in March, Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins have revealed they have a new bassist, continuing their tradition of constantly changing their lineup. Nicole Fiorentino is a former member of Veruca Salt, Twilight Sleep, Light FM and who also plays with Spinerette. In a MySpace post on Monday (May 10), she...
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New Smashing Pumpkins Song Available For Free Download

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 19, 2010 1:19 pm
The Smashing Pumpkins have released the second song from their Teargarden By Kaleidyscope album, and it's available to download for free through their website. "Widow Wake My Mind" follows "A Song For A Son," which was released in December. Don't get your hopes up — Jessica Simpson's not on it. Smashing Pumpkins frontman...
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Billy Corgan, Jessica Simpson In Studio Doing... Something

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 14, 2010 2:09 pm
It looks like Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson could win a "shortest couple in showbiz history" award, since they reportedly got together late last year and have already called it quits due to "religious differences." (That's if you believe the Star tabloid, of course.) But they've moved on and are still working together....
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Smashing Pumpkins Go Free With 44-Track Teargarden By Kaleidyscope

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 17, 2009 10:28 am
The Smashing Pumpkins are set to unleash a free 44-track (!) album dubbed Teargarden By Kaleidyscope (we're not kidding — that's really the title), which will come out as a series of EPs over the next few months. Frontman Billy Corgan revealed the news in a blog post on the Smashing Pumpkins website on Wednesday. Four of the disc's songs are...
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Billy Corgan Goes Hippie

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 31, 2009 2:50 pm
Billy Corgan is no longer a rat in an alt.rock cage and has become a hippie. We're kidding... or are we? Corgan hasn't started wearing Birkenstocks, grown his hair out or donned a fringed leather vest. But the setlist for a two-set show by Spirits In The Sky at Santa Barbara, Calif.'s Muddy Waters Coffee House on Friday was reportedly a...
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Iggy Pop Slams Pumpkins, Durst

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 5, 2009 10:08 am
Iggy Pop alluded to certain bands in a promotional video for his new album, Preliminaires, in which he said he made the disc because he "got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music." He's not explained who exactly he was referring to with that comment. "Anyone from Smashing Pumpkins to — what's the...
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SOAD Drummer Tries Out For Pumpkins

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By CHARTattack Staff April 20, 2009 10:54 am
System Of A Down's John Dolmayan was one of 12 drummers who auditioned for Smashing Pumpkins last Tuesday. System Of A Down have been on hiatus for three years, but haven't officially broken up. Dolmayan and SOAD guitarist Daron Malakian's new band, Scars On Broadway, released their debut album last July. Dolmayan also played on SOAD frontman...
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Billy Corgan's Wrestling Video

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By CHARTattack Staff April 16, 2009 4:15 pm
Billy Corgan is a well-documented wrestling follower and arguably a big fan of playing the heel, so it probably shouldn't be surprising that Corgan appears in a promo for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling or that the video for the Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" has been recut using TNA wrestlers. Corgan does the song's...
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Pumpkins Albums After All?

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By CHARTattack Staff April 13, 2009 2:37 pm
Billy Corgan posted an extensive blog entry on The Smashing Pumpkins' website, in which he detailed his future plans for the band, last week. Although Corgan stated the Pumpkins would become a "singles only" band last year, he says he wants to make an album — though maybe not in the way he's done in the past or in the traditional sense...
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Jimmy Chamberlin Leaves Pumpkins

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) March 23, 2009 10:15 am
Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the band once again. No reason was given for Chamberlin's departure, which was announced late on Friday. This means frontman Billy Corgan is the band's only original member. "I am one" appears to be a prophetic line for Corgan. Corgan will "continue to write and record as...
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No More Pumpkins Albums

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) December 11, 2008 11:28 am
The Smashing Pumpkins aren't going to make any more albums, but that doesn't mean that we'll be spared from their singles. "The listening patterns have changed, so why are we killing ourselves to do albums, to create balance, and do the arty track to set up the single?" frontman Billy Corgan said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune...
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Nirvana On Guitar Hero

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) December 4, 2008 2:58 pm
You'll be able to download tracks by Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins and... the Eagles for Guitar Hero World Tour this month. Nirvana's "You Know You're Right," "Negative Creep" and "Sliver" will be available as a Nirvana Track Pack on Dec. 11, while you can download The Smashing Pumpkins' "G.L.O.W.," "...
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Pumpkins To Play Massey Hall Twice

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By CHARTattack Staff September 26, 2008 2:01 pm
Smashing Pumpkins are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new two-DVD set and a five-week tour with multiple stops in many cities. Toronto is one such metropolis. Venerable Massey Hall will host Pumpkins shows on Nov. 3 and 4, and the Chicago band promise that no songs will be duplicated from one evening to the next. They're calling night...
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