When's the new LP coming out anyway?
Wow! I didn't know the answer to your question, marred, so I went to Google and typed in "Smashing Pumpkins new album" to find out. Holy Smokes, I just found out a lot! The band is going to release two new studio albums next year (no definitive dates set yet.) The titles of the albums are "
Monuments to an Elegy" (love the title) and the drab "
Day for Night" (yawn). Apparently, the band started recording songs on March 25th and Billy hopes to unleash a new single this year. I can't wait for that. ( source Spin.com)
I also just discovered these news items about the Pumpkins on Spin.com. I'm going to read about this stuff later because I Need to go get some coffee. Here are the news flashes....
* Billy has replaced drummer Mike Byrne with Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. I can't say I'm overly thrilled by this. I didn't click on the story so I'm not sure what happened. I really liked Mike's work. His drumming on "
Oceania" and the "
Teargarden..." songs was outstanding! I know very little about Tommy Lee's work because I've heard only two or three Crue songs. I guess time will tell if this works out.
* Apparently, Billy is in the process of putting out a new solo album, which is a double album. It's too much of a headache for me, to try and explain this, so I'll just "copy & paste" the info from Spin.com....
"But AEGEA, his newest double album, will be a departure into even deeper left-field territory, if that's even possible. Corgan says, "As a work, AEGEA is experimental in nature, and comes across as more a soundtrack to some lost foreign film than the kind of music I'm usually associated with." He continues: "Listening back I quite like how AEGEA goes along, as it has qualities that are both meditative and alien; but not alienating."
In the next six to eight weeks, the record — which includes recordings that date as far back as 2007 — will be released strictly on vinyl and in limited quantities. The first pressing will produce 250 copies, all of which will be available through online purchase for $59.95. For those living in the Highland Park area of Chicago, a few copies will be lying around Corgan's Madame Zuzu's Teahouse."
* Billy really is a bird of a different feather. Whoa, look what he's done now! I'll copy & paste this nugget from Spin.com...
"Similarly, he recently gave fans (and Oneohtrix Point Never) a window in on his creative process when he livestreamed that eight-hour synth jam set to the words of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha."
* Billy is also prepping an "
Adore" re-issue. I'm excited about this!! Really excited! Here's some info about the re-issue from Spin.com....
"The new package will feature the oiginal album, a mono mix never before heard on CD, three discs of unreleased material, and a concert DVD. Not too shabby.
"One thing that might excite fans of the album is that we were able to go back and locate elements from the original sessions that were stored digitally, but never used; such as some of the brilliant work done by Bon Harris," Corgan says. "In that fresh mixes have been commissioned, shedding new light on not only the songs hidden foundations, but their futuristic nature as well."
Though critically lauded, the album was a commercial flop following Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and it hurt the band, which was going through personal issues following drummer Jimmy Chamberlin's firing for heroin use.
Perhaps the reissue, which is due sometime this summer, will let some fans see it in a whole new light."
Billy Corgan