The Smashing Pumpkins Unveil Tour

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a run of intimate venues beginning July 6th in Cleveland.

This marks the band’s first tour since December 2008 and will feature, says leader and founder Billy Corgan, “a balance of classics, a few obscure ones, and new ‘Teargarden’ material.”

Corgan and his band mates–guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and new bassist Nicole Fiorentino – are also planning to invite select fans to attend their sound checks (details still to be announced). “we are going to do something unique, which is play an invite-only set during sound check of almost all new, unreleased songs,” says Billy. “We’re still figuring out a way to make it possible for some of the fans who’ll be in the line outside waiting to get in for that.”
Rehearsals for the tour “have been fantastic,” adds Billy. “I haven’t been this comfortable in a band situation since about 1995. Musically, we seem to have wound our way back to a more kinetic, electric, and psychedelic sound that reminds me of SP in Gish-Siamese era.”

The band has been recording and rehearsing in Los Angeles, and recently broadcast a full session live online: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-coldwater-studio.

July

6 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
8 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit Room  9 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
10 Louisville, KY Forecastle Festival
12 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
13 Richmond, VA The National
15 Norfolk, VA The Norva
16 Charlotte, NC Fillmore
17 Charleston, SC Music Farm SOLD OUT 
19 Orlando, FL House of Blues
20 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revoultion SOLD OUT 
21 Tampa, FL Ritz NOW
23 Knoxville, TN Valarium
26 New York, NY Terminal 5 SOLD OUT