Smashing Pumpkins announce new album, extensive reissues
The Smashing Pumpkins delivered a double dose of news Tuesday about past and future recordings.
In a video posted on the band’s Facebook page, singer Billy Corgan announced that the current band – which includes no original members besides himself – will record a new album, “Oceania,” that will be released later this year. “Even though I pronounced the album dead” a few years ago, Corgan said, he says the band has a number of songs written and will begin recording them next month, with the aim of releasing an album Sept. 1. “Oceania” will be part of the massive 44-song “Teargarden by Kaleidyscope” project, in which the band has been releasing songs as free downloads soon after recording them. Details of exactly how “Oceania” will be released were not divulged.
Corgan also said that after about a decade of negotiation the band and its former label, EMI, had reached an agreement to reissue remastered versions of all the Pumpkins’ albums from the band’s first era (1991-2000) over the next three years on CD and vinyl with bonus tracks. In addition, what Corgan calls a “digital box set” will be created that will enable the band to release material from its archives “any way we want,” including free downloads. He said the archival material includes everything from the band’s early rehearsals in Chicago during the 1980s through what was to be its final show at Metro in 2000.
The first reissues will be out by Christmas this year: “Gish” (1991), “Siamese Dream” (1993) and “Pisces Iscariot” (1994). Next year, “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” (1995), “The Aeroplane Flies High” box set (1996) and “Adore” (1998) will be reissued. In 2013, the 2000 albums “Machina/The Machines of God” and “Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music” will be packaged together “in the right order,” Corgan says, to be followed by a greatest hits compilation.
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Super cool! Been waiting for this release to happen forever!
Does this mean that the Aeroplane Flies High box set will be released on vinyl, also??
Posted by: Danni Demon | April 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM
does anybody care about SP?? besides Bill?
Posted by: Eric | April 26, 2011 at 12:59 PM
The least talented and most self-important "musician" in decades makes his 37th comeback! And nobody cares! Well, except Danni Demon.
Posted by: Houdini | April 26, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Apparently at least two people care enough to comment on the article and make the point that they supposedly don't care.
Posted by: Redmond Silverfield | April 26, 2011 at 06:01 PM
Poly Styrene is dead, and THIS is what the Trib chooses to put on its music page?
Posted by: Ed | April 26, 2011 at 08:13 PM
Finally, a version of Gish that doesn't sound like it was recorded in Butch Vig's bathtub.
Posted by: Frank | April 26, 2011 at 08:48 PM
This is excellent news. Pretty much everything the fans have been hoping for - well done Billy - expectations met!
Posted by: Deb | April 26, 2011 at 09:21 PM
I hope Aeroplane Flies High gets the expanded treatment. There wasn't enough music on there, imho.
Posted by: alex | April 26, 2011 at 09:57 PM
For the people who hate the Pumpkins or don't care about this, don't read it or leave a comment. This news is not for you, so shut up.
Great news. Can't wait to hear some of this old stuff that we have not heard yet.
Posted by: Ron | April 28, 2011 at 09:39 AM